What kind of week was it? It was hopefully the last glimpse of a skim of  •  snow. It has been a fairly optimistic week otherwise with lots of contact with  •  old friends over the internet, planning a summer reunion in Halifax at the end  •  of July. But what else has the internet done for me …

I just noticed this article on click fraud in Wired care of Boing and found a very odd thing - a moral argument for the rights of property holders:  •  “By splitting revenue with the sites that host the ads, search engines have become, in effect, the Internet's venture capitalists, funding the …

When I think of all the promises that information technology has made but not followed through on, this is the sort of futurificationing that most alarms me:  •  “The divide that separates people from their online lives will utterly disappear. Instead of leaving behind all those net-based friends …

Here is my half-baked unified theory essay based largely on idle car driving and long meeting daydreaming. Entire chunks could be rewritten and reversed, deleted even. I am too lazy to edit it any more and I am note convinced myself but, thought I, what the heck. I'm posting it for comment but …

Rob, who drew me into this gig of his as a volunteer, points out a very interesting phenomena: NPR is expanding:  •  “While many newsrooms are shedding reporters—from the New York Times to the Dallas Morning News—NPR is one of the few places an experienced journalist can hope to get a job.  •  "I …

Not being Catholic but being a fellow traveller, the workings of the Vatican fascinate. To that end - and for your improvement as always - I give your Benny's first encyclical which appears to be on the interrelated obligations of the faithful and the state.  •  Compare and contrast by 5 pm.

Last time I wrote about this, it was the day before the London bombings but London Mayor Ken Livingston's comments again remind me of that question of how will we know if this slow war against shadows is over or even changed?  •  “The terror threat faced by London is "fairly disorganised" and …

In my very slow battle against the neutering of the word "irony", it was gratifying to see two references to the word in Sunday's New York Times. The First was in Randy Kennedy's column on the words of 2005:  •  “The facination of such a chart would be to watch in great detail how quickly …

Up in the wee hours of Boxing Day with a bug and not being Roman Catholic, it is an odd thing to consider parsing the words of Pope Benny's first Christmas gig but the first words of this passage caught my ear:  •  “"In the millennium just past, and especially in the last centuries, immense …