Category: Miscellany

I overheard myself just now saying “shift-printscreen! shift-printscreen” when actually looking for the Grab application on this Mac. (Shift-printscreen is PC jargon.) Last night while watching Frasier typing up copy for his “Wine Corner” segment on the restaurant reviewer’s show on a strangely small chunky looking off-white laptop, as he leapt from the table to…

Short notice, and Bay Area-specific, but I still thought this worth passing along, from Scott Rosenberg: Readers in the Bay Area are invited to Cody’s Books in Berkeley, where on Thursday evening (Oct. 3) a panel of Salon editors and contributors — inclding David Talbot, Joan Walsh, Jennifer Sweeney and Chris Colin — will talk…

No Nurse is Good Nurse. I’ll send a copy of my Dreamweaver book (or something else if that’s not needed) to the first person who can identify the source of the subject of this entry.

What makes pornography (let’s stick to visual porn for the sake of discussion) work the way it does? That is, how do images of bodies, body parts, or sex arts stimulate sexual arousal in a way that’s useful for masturbation? I would suggest that porn deliberates manipulates (pun intended) inherited, evolved, largely genetic but clearly…

Bush’s real goal in Iraq. In an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jay Bookman suggests that the Bush administration’s ulterior motive in focusing on Iraq is a relentless expansion of American empire:This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole…

Not as cute as my bunny. B sent me this link to Riparian Rabbit Release for the bunny pix but these guys just aren’t as cute as Hoppy was.