Classical music performed publicly in Saudi Arabia.

In front of a mixed gender audience. A first.

Contractors in Iraq.

Sounds like the old days in Chicago. Via Mother Jones.

Computers go on sale in Cuba.

For the first time ever.

"i'm f*cking Matt Damon."

Whither SETI?

Nick Bostrom: "Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing." From Technology Review.

Happy May Day.

The international workers' holiday. But not in the US.

"Under the cobblestones, the beach." - Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Bill O'Reilly explains it all.

O'Reilly: "We didn't invade Iraq." I guess I was confused.

"Too ugly to be gay."

Charles Jade's lame rationalization of a ho-hum purchase gives all of us non-cult Mac users a bad name. When I miss Justin Long in Apple's commercials, it's depressing. Smug, stand-offish, and petit bourgeois, to say the least.

What's wrong with this sentence: "Walking around San Francisco, inquiries concerning the origin of the Mac bag are a constant source of personal amusement, especially since only 50 Mac bags were made"?

Back to Starbucks with you until you master English and American sentence construction as evidence of your high taste. And untuck that sweatshirt, man. I _can_ make a bag like that.

Joe Andrew jumps ship.

Former DNC chairman under Bill sees the light, will endorse Obama. The more the merrier.

Obama-bama.

From lowercase tee.