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The New Yorker magazine always has great cover art, but this week’s cover is extraordinary. The current issue has been lying around the house for a few days, and each time I walk past it on the coffee table it instills in me a feeling of peace and calm. It’s rare that I find paintings […]

My cousing Travis has a new web site showcasing his artwork: digital perceptions.

Today was my last day of work. That’s cool. Now I have a week off until I return to Chicago next Friday.
Earlier this evening, I talked to a friend who lived next to me in the dorms two years ago. It was good to catch up with her and laugh about the ridiculous things that […]

George Bush discusses the stategery of an Iraqi invasion with other members of the UN Security Council. (Via Gary Turner’s Weblog)

Think Kelly Clarkson won big? Wait until you read her contract.
And the ever-insightful Neal Pollack explains the global hostility towards America: superior bloggers.
Are you geek enough for WarDriving.com? (What’s war driving?) My opinion: if you just want to surf the Web or check e-mail, using someone else’s insecure wireless network is fine, since it poses […]

Thomas L. Friedman, a NY Times columnist, provided a remarkably erudite and provocative analysis of the upcoming conflict with Iraq on today’s episode of Fresh Air on NPR (web site, Real audio). I especially liked his comments on the long term impact an invasion of Iraq would have on oil prices: the U.S. would replace […]

The Berg has a weblog. Women beware.
The movie Super Troopers has quickly become my third favorite comedy, behind Big Lebowski and Office Space. I watched it several times while visiting Margaret this weekend. (Yea Belgian Beer Bar!)
Computational Complexity Web Log, via Leuschke. Math is supa-dupa fly.

I’ve half-written two weblog entries; a stream-of-conscious, emotionally introspective reflection of my summer, in which my father embarks on his doctorate of ministry program; and an explanation of a fascinating mathematical property involving the powers of three, which was inspired by a less-than-optimal answer in a Mind Benders book.
So it goes.
As an aside, my Windows […]

My sister’s “uncommon application” to the University of Chicago arrived in the mail today. I waxed nostalgic recalling my excitement about applying to college. She intends to apply early action to U of C, just like me. If she attends, she would be a freshman when I’m a senior.
I loved helping her with (i.e. doing) […]

I have recently come to appreciate the writing of Kevin Guilfoile. He’s from Chicago, which gives him a leg up on other writers striving for my appreciation.

Earlier tonight, I was watching a Law & Order rerun (Doubles) on TNT. In the episode, a tennis star is attacked seemingly by her rival (a la Nancy Kerrigan and Tanya Harding). The victim has a broken wrist and a bloody nose from the assault. Although there was no rape, murder or attempted murder, detectives […]

I have not updated in some time, nor have been reading other weblogs. This is because I suck. I hope to stop sucking soon, before the summer is over.
Also, The Official Rock Paper Scissors Stategy Guide is well worth reading.

I have found The Best Page In The Universe. Make sure to check out “I am better than your kids” which is a frank assessment of preschool drawings, and “When is the last time a whale did anything for you?”
Hyde Park Review of Books is a quartely publication from my neighborhood.
37bettermotors: 37signals redesigns the automotive […]

Giving new meaning to ‘home page’, mc.clintock.com is a hierarchical inventory of every item in the McClintock residence. It’s remarkable how much privacy he gives up by putting everything in his house online. It’s also remarkable that this extensive inventory is hard to maintain and not very useful. But it’s cool nonetheless.

Guy with cool hair at the Haight Street Fair in San Francisco.
What We’re Doing When We Blog by Meg Hourihan
McDonald’s test-markets Spam. I can’t even remember the last time I ate at McDonald’s, but this is really gross.

An quote from A.N. Whitehead’s Modes of Thought, page 15:
“Great advances in thought are often the result of fortunate errors. These errors are the result of oversimplification. The advance is due to the fact that, for the moment, the excess is not relevant to the use of the simplified notions. One of the chief examples […]

The Peach Kiss weblog made my day: “*sigh* its not cool loving someone u cant have , i do this alote 2″
Thank you Evelyn.
I have a computer science final in 11 minutes. “So friggen poopers !!!!!!!!!!!!“

What I really think: the Chris Matthews weblog. Matthews (from MSNBC’s Harball) is far and away my favorite television journalist. Now he, along with other MSNBC commentators, have weblogs. While weblogs aren’t only for journalists, it will be interesting to see how these coporate-sponsored weblogs will mesh with the grass-roots libertarianism (decentralized, anarchic iconoclasm) of […]

The Pope kicks it up a notch. Bam! The blood of christ. (via fp)
Also…
The FBI kid’s page
eBay action: 20-year-old bottle of Crystal Pepsi
British teenagers to be paid £40 per week to stay in school after GCSE
Monday morning means a cup of coffee and new McSweeney’s Lists, which having just been read, were underwhelmingly funny. International […]

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