I really, really like i09, but I was really, really underwhelmed by this list of 20 life-changing science fiction novels.

I know, there’s no reasonable expectation that every book on everybody’s list of books will match up. But some of this stuff is just dumb. The Dispossessed?? Please. “Oh, our societies are different, in a [...]

Excellent overview of the topic.

How To: Stop a 500-Foot Monster (Think Missiles, Not Bombs) | Danger Room from Wired.com

Employee discounts, or in this case, employee fee waivers, rock. I’m taking Laney’s basic photography class (i.e., “This is film. It goes in the camera this way.”) I’m an almost total film newb, so this is working out quite well, and having access to a real, fully-stocked darkroom makes learning this stuff a lot easier [...]

Yeah, I keep going dark. Sorry about that. I’m busy. Or something. Here, look at a bee:

Grrr. Back in the day, I subscribed to emailed job postings from idealist.org, a hippie-type job clearinghouse dingus. Ever since, these emails have been accumulating in one of my spare email accounts, mostly unread. I decided I might as well turn them off, since I’m not reading them, and there’s no reason to clog the [...]