Climate Illusion
"Why, oh why am I wearing a heavy tweed jacket in the bright sunlight when it is 97F with 98% humidity?"

Anticipation
"We don't live in the present: we live in the future. It looks as though our brains' processing of sensory input produces the illusion that our consciousness is up-to-date, when actually it lags several hunded milliseconds behind reality."

Another British Historian Calls Me an
"Another British historian--Robert Skidelsky this time--calls me an "Aunt Sally." What is it with these people? I don't think it is a compliment. The relevant parts of the new--added--preface to the book called _Fighting for Britain_ in Britain and _Fighting for Freedom_ in Merka:"

Artificial Sociology
"Jonathan Rauch has an interesting article about artificial societies in the Atlantic Monthly, http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/04/rauch.htm..."

In Praise of Airport!
"The Joys of Our Wireless Future Become Visible..."

Patron Saint of Open Source
"St. Columba of Ireland"

David Brock, _Blinded by the Right_
"Things in the 1990s were worse than I imagined, or so this book claims. But is it reliable? I am lost in a wilderness of mirrors..."

Strawberries
"California Strawberries Are Here!"

On the Intelligence of Dogs
"Reasons to think that dogs are not especially "conscious" as we think of it..."

The Singularity Will Be Delayed Indefinitely
"My misadventures with an ipaq configured to be a wireless meeting planner."

Sailing the Ancient Mediterranean
"Harry Turtledove diverts himself from alternate history to sail the ancient Mediterranean in a merchant galley just after the death of Alexander the Great. Call it a work of "historical realism""

The New Economy, Intellectual Property, and Adam Smith's Economics I
"Adam Smith's market economics has fit the world so well for the past three centuries because of a particularly good fit between the characteristics of valued items and the requirements--excludability, rivalry, and transparency--of market efficiency"

Why Are There So Many Carnivores in the Technosphere?
"The Technosphere (http://194.80.29.14/) has 52,000 herbivores and 22,000 carnivores in it. Why?"

Declining Quality of Nigerian Oil Scam Emails
"Another worrisome example of the declining quality of Nigerian oil scam emails. Whatever is the world coming to?"

Will Immortality Halt Evolution?: No!
"Immortality will not halt evolution. All of your mitochondria, for example, are living creatures that have been around for perhaps a billion years. Yet mitochondria continue to evolve (albeit slowly)."

Debunking the Saturn Hoax
"What to do when some poor deluded individual pipes up with the suggestion that the secret CIA-led mission to the moons of Saturn never took place? It's up to you to take them apart!"

The Shock of the Virtual
"My personal aha! wake-up moment with respect to the meaning of the internet. A piece that is now six years old."

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
"a book that annoys me because of its refusal to connect the political dots between who we vote for and what the lives of the working poor are like"

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
"The best book on computers, telegraph relays, circuit design, programming, and 83 other topics I have ever read."

Is There More Than Physics? Perhaps...
"Thinking a heretical thought"

A Puzzling Question About Darkest England
"Provoked by Reading _Bridget Jones's Diary_, by Helen Fielding"

The New Economy in Historical Perspective
"A first draft of an article, big in scope, given as an after-dinner talk at the Chateau Vaudrieul in Montreal"

Vietnamese Iced Coffee
"Cafe au Lait, Far From Home Indeed"

Comment on Searle's Chinese Room
"The argument proves too much: among other things it proves that John Searle does not think..."

Grand Lyon Bordeaux Ketchup
""What Dijon Does For Mustard, Bordeaux Does For Ketchup" (R)"