Wes Phillips

Having wormed my way up miles of static rope with Gibbs and Petzl Frog ascenders, my biggest desire is to do away with the rope itself. I wants me a set of Gecko gloves and booties!

My buddy Jeff Wong and I were talking about the collector's mentality on one of our bike rides recently. Jeff observed that there are two major strategies for collectors who have it bad: Try to collect everything and the other is mine a tightly defined subgenre.

I'm a complete sucker for jargon. Specialized vocabulary identifies you a an insider and, whether you mean it to or not, it reveals a lot about your group.

Another subway pun, this time the title refers to the project that created the London Underground. Must be something in the air (hah, I slay myself) today.

As a writer, I agree wholeheartedly. It's the word that causes all the trouble, not that, as a writer, I know much about dollars.

Bagheera may have more of the chair, but Huck's looking pretty smug about using her as a pillow.

Well, that's what Seth Lloyd thinks. I love this Technology Review interview because the writer obviously doesn't buy the theory, but he gives Lloyd a fair shake in laying it out.