GOOGLE MOON

In case your travels take you really far, Google has just opened Google Moon, with the same interface as Google Maps. Hidden joke alert: when you first check it out, make sure you zoom all the way in for a close look, then go take a look at new Google job...

TEN AXIOMS OF MODERN COMPUTING

John Dvorak’s column in PC Magazine today lists ten axioms of modern computing. He recommends simply accepting them; fighting them will make your life miserable. Although tongue is planted firmly in cheek, you will likely recognize more than a few things on the...

DAVE BARRY ON 2003

2003: A Dave Odyssey is Dave Barry’s annual review of the past year’s most important events. “Some other troubling questions from 2003 were: If Californians hated Gray Davis so much, why did they elect him governor TWICE? Did Gray have photos of the...

STRANGE PICTURES

Internet site of the day – somebody with too much free time making really strange pictures of animals.

OPUS RETURNS!

Life is worth living again! Opus the penguin is returning to the comics pages! Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, creator of Bloom County and Outland, will begin a new Sunday-only strip featuring Opus, starting in November. Here’s the...

TOYNBEE TILES

I love stuff like this. For years, a reporter for the Kansas City Star had noticed an odd tile embedded in the street near a favorite restaurant. Made of a rock-hard material, embedded in a way that can only be done with heavy-duty machinery, and displaying the...