Not Your Grandma's Sampler

The Stone of Madness

The Camera of the Mind

Make your own book scanner, just to spite Google!
I really wanted to go to the D is for Digitize conference in New York. I couldn't go, but Harry Lewis did, and according to him, the star was Daniel Reetz of DIYBookScanner.org: While everyone else at the conference was ruminating about whether Google

"For most men, sex is as important as breathing"
I encountered this jaw-dropping story, by one Emily Miller for AskMen.com, as the top "health link" on FoxNews this afternoon: It seems like a reverse sexism started to take hold as the feminist movement came about and equality for women began gaining ground. Some women use their girl-power solidarity to come to a consensus on what's socially acceptable for women to do to men in a relationship. They've agreed among themselves that these behaviors are perfectly justifiable regardless of how they play with a guy's emotions or ego. With that, we've compiled a top 10 list of cruel things women do to men

Black Friday Online Shopping Guide for Bookish Science Geeks
A few of my favorite holiday shopping suggestions from the past year of blogging. . . #1. Pandemic, the Board Game. Turn H1N1 into holiday fun for everyone! (Already have Pandemic? Z-Man games has an upgrade pack.) #2. Blue Barnhouse letterpress. Yeah, they're artistic and individuall

Black Friday: taxonomy gone wrong
Apparently this toy company needs a zoologist on staff. (Parents: this is the perfect gift to seriously confuse your pre-adolescent wanna-be biologist, and derail them into a more profitable career in law!) From FailBlog. Read the comments on this post...

The ephemeral newspaper: giving thanks
fog 10 Steven Hight In the growling gray light (San Francisco still has foghorns), I collect the San Francisco Chronicle from the wet steps. I am so lonely I must subscribe to three papers - the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle. I remark their thinness as I climb the sta