Yesterday, I saw the following quote on a t-shirt in a little souvineer shop in Hannibal, Missouri: A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. This quote uses a formula that could work for many other verbs, too.  Instead of "read," you can substitute "think,"…
Mike Lester, The Rome News-Tribune by Mike Keefe, The Denver Post Tab, The Calgary Sun by John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri [admin note: DI proudly supports cartoonists through its subscription to Cagle Cartoons. Each of these cartoons is printed with full permission]
Rod Humble, a game developer (I guess, even if you don't play computer games, names like The Sims, he is Head of the Sims Studio, or EverQuest will sound familiar to you) created an artgame, The Marriage. Available for download from his website. The Marriage is intended to be art.…
Scientific American has just published a comprehensive article on how to switch the United States substantially over to sunlight. The headline: "By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions." The cost of this immense clean-energy-producing plan would be $420 billion. That's a HUGE…
I remember when the FBI unleashed their "Carnivore" internet monitoring system in the 1990's. Everyone was up in arms because the FBI could listen in to all email and run it through filters to store a database of all emails containing suspicious phrases, or from specific addresses. The controversy got…