I’ve really enjoyed the last two episodes of Battlestar Galactica (“Captain’s Hand” and “Downloaded”); partly because they’re just good episodes, and partly because they come to rescue us from a chain of medicore episodes in which the show completely forgot what it was about—they had the detective episode, the top gun episode, the “24” episode, [...]

Honest Hypocrite has a list of cursed-to-wander folks and lessons we can learn from them. Of course, as a reader of Roger Zelazny, I’m inclined to view instances of the flying dutchman archetype as romantic heroes or anti-heroes (e.g., the “eternal undergraduate” Fred Cassidy of Doorways in the Sand, or Jack of Night in the [...]

A stupid name for a great site—a newly acquired member of the Robot Co-Op lets you aggregate lists of things, which are integrated pretty damn well into existing Robot products like 43things and especially Allconsuming. It’s still in super-secret limited beta (i.e., submit your email address to get in), and there are certainly bugs a-plenty [...]

I’ve been keeping semi-assiduous track lately of all the interruptions I have at work—where it’s common for three different people to say “Hey Nick” all at the same time, more than once during the course of half an hour, usually to fix a printer, interpret the law, and appease someone while standing on my head [...]

Excellent. The only problem here is that we already know they’re picking this show up. What they should be doing is putting the pilots they’re on the fence about online and watching people’s response.

The iPod Observer – Now Playing – Conviction Pilot Free at iTMS

Title note: Reference to Alfred Noir (pronounced “Noyer”), protagonist of Alfred Bester’s Psychoshop.After a conversation with Kevin, I’ve been thinking a bit about noir fiction1, and especially about how to define it or set about listing its distinctive characteristics.However, having attempted this a couple of times now (efforts well-scrapped), I’m going to give up on [...]

Here’s something I hate finding in my RSS feeds: roundup posts.

One of the virtues of RSS is that it enables you to regulate the flow of information. The vast majority of the content I consume online passes through my bloglines account, and I navigate it by paging through the posts with the “j” and “k” [...]