Things Are Tough All Over
Even evil galactic overlords have their problems.
Things I Learned From My Patients
Australian ER residents share their lessons. Sad, funny, and profane, but they ring very true to this former ER orderly. Biggest lesson: If you're minding your own business and see "some guy" or "some dude" headed your way, get gone. Those guys are trouble.
Things You Won't See When I Direct Shakespeare
My favorite: "I will not have Henry throwing tomatoes at a spinning fan blade whilst yelling at Montjoy."
Thinking About Thinking
Huckleberry reckons he might try that thinking stuff some day. Some other day.
Thinking About Thinking
Another breakthrough in mapping the brain. I'm thinking that one day we'll start to understand how it works, but at least now I know which part of my brain I'm thinking that with.
Thinking As a Hobby
William Golding on thinking—and how almost everybody has got it all wrong. Hint: It ain't sedentary; it's active.
Third Annual Nigerian Email Conference
There's still time to register for the Lady Mariam Abacha and Mr. Godwin Oyathelem seminar on "The effectiveness of using all UPPERCASE characters."
This Can't Be Right
This comic strip from the Perry Bible Fellowship seems to suggest that you can screw your way out of a crises. If they say so . . . .
This Could Change Everything
Well, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project could change the world, which is pretty much the same thing.
This Explains Everything
Wired's Seth Mnookin interviewed UMG's CEO Doug Morris, who proves that record labels were even more clueless than anyone could have even imagined when it came to the changing landscape of the Internet.