The end of life. And I don't mean a product life cycle. Washington makes assisted suicide legal tomorrow and it's about time. How can anyone make suicide illegal should be the question we should be asking. We're such a damn nanny state that leaving this earth at the time and place of your choosing i...

Kate Harding dissects Germaine’s latest blithering (Germs doesn’t always blither, but I cannot think of a better description for this particular effort) in Salon. Great job. I was having the “why aren’t there more women working in stand-up?” conversation with a comedian...

As much as I love our house, it has one critical problem -- only two rooms in the entire house have hard phone lines. I've had Vonage for a while now, but the voice quality sucks for whatever reason. The few times I've used voice over iChat, it's been fine. My cell phone, regrettably, is a crap shoo...

A video production in three parts, from one Joss Whedon. Sounds like a punk kid who'll never get anywhere in life. However, it does continue to add to the oeuvre of "things NPH would or would not do." http://www.drhorrible.com/act_I.html Update: web version only available until the 20th according to...

I'm finding my photos used all over the Internet these days. Some scumbags use them illegally without attribution (see the one of the guy on the scooter about 3/4 down the page) but most seem to follow the Creative Commons license and provide the attribution and a link. The guy has the balls to say ...