Damek.

In the interest of the constant struggle between maintaining a clean conscience and actually getting something done, I want to reproduce here one of the most brilliantly written comments I’ve ever read at DailyKos (on the topic of calling out freakishly insane far right people like “Cartoon Gaydar” Dobson and his Focus on the Sex [...]

Google Maps is awesome, and they just expanded to the UK. So, if you want to get from London Heathrow Airport to Christ Church, Oxford, you now know you just get on the A40 heading northwest out of London.
Apparently, however, it isn’t entirely up-to-date. But then, I imagine the US version isn’t, either.
Speaking [...]

Back in the latter part of the 20th century, something was happening in science fiction. Dystopian worlds like those found in Blade Runner, Neuromancer and the “Max Headroom” television series were romanticized. These were places in which you wouldn’t want to live, and yet at the same time they were dark worlds of [...]

Single? Feeling lonely? Never fear, Wal-Mart has been thinking about you! They want to make sure you can easily meet other lonely singles. They’ve even made sure to create “‘flirting points’ around the stores stacked with ‘romantic’ merchandise, such as chocolates, wine and cheese, to help with that first awkward step.”
But [...]

A very bad, and more importantly, very annoying, cold. I mean, every time I identified a new symptom and acquired a new drug to target and eradicate said symptom, the little buggers would shuffle off to some adjacent area of my head and start fresh on a new project. I guess I could [...]