I just finished one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read - The Tipping Point , by Malcolm Gladwell. The basic premise is that events and trends of significant importance can be triggered by relatively minor contextual changes. The book gives countless...

I just installed a sweet desktop image from DigitalBlasphemy . I was referred there by my buddy Gus via his informative and compelling blog . Also, check out the badass new song by Social Distortion entitled Reach for the Sky , which has been on relatively...

I just read an excellent translation of Sun Tzu's famous book The Art of War . The translation itself is apparently well-known - by Lionel Giles in 1910. But this edition of the book (published by Barnes & Noble - as an aside, I just read in the Wall...

I failed to debug my toilet the other day. I knew there was a problem because it was leaking water onto the bathroom floor. There was even enough water that it was noticeable after I got out of the shower and still had wet feet. My first reaction was...

For about a year now (*) I've been receiving the free zine Queue , published by the ACM. I highly recommend it, especially for software developers, like myself, who enjoy reading up on interesting CS-related research even outside my work area, but don...