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So Safari 4 Beta is out, but it’s apparent that they’re still not designing the browser for me. The things that keep me with Firefox are above all its extensions and general customizability. WebKit is a better rendering engine and Safari’s UI widgets are arguably second to none, but the browser itself may as well [...]

Suppose President John McCain were to implement a policy of opt-out national service. We might reasonably object on the grounds that it would all too clearly communicate that individuals need reasons not to serve the state. If allowed to stand, such a policy could shape social expectations and individual preferences in a direction at odds [...]

I didn’t travel nearly as much this year as I did last year (and still far behind some other lucky people), but many experiences were had. The list below consists of the cities in which I spent at least one night during the year 2008.

Santa Clarita, CA
Walnut Creek, CA
Emeryville, CA
Austin, TX
Fallon, NV
Wilton, CA

In the spirit of Joe’s guide, I bring you Brad’s slightly-informed guide to the California ballot.
President/Vice President of the United States
Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root, Libertarian. This should be fairly obvious, but my rationale is that California is a strong Democrat state, so Obama will win (meh) and McCain will lose (good). Given that, I’ll use [...]

I can think of several things worse than turning 25. Among them:

Being gored by a bull in Pamplona
Losing millions in the stock market and selling
Slipping and shattering your bones on an expensive marble floor
Having hot coffee thrown in your face by a crazy person
Getting run over by a garbage truck
Falling off a rock climbing wall [...]

Most nonfiction books meander around and belabor their central points. Most nonfiction writers aren’t particularly skilled at coherent and compelling structure or rhythm in prose and there’s only so much an editor can do. Quite different from fiction writing, good nonfiction requires a certain continuity of thought and mastery of distillation.
Instead of plowing through hundreds [...]

It bothers me when sites provide links to “sign up” and “login”. The former is a verb phrase, but the latter is a noun; it should be “log in” to mirror the form. An argument can be made for linking to “login” the noun, as in the “login [page]” but then you would also link [...]

The Quebec government has passed laws which forbid French speakers and immigrants to send their children to English-language schools; compel businesses with more than fifty employees to be run in French; and ban English commercial signs. So, if your ancestors were French you, too, must by government fiat speak French whatever your personal wishes may [...]

Send email in plain text – not “formatted” or HTML. Your font is hideous and your gratuitous spacing is offensive. Don’t even get me started on background images. Convey your message with punctuation, letters, words and sentences. If something is *really important* you can use asterisks, like that.
Keep it short and to the point – [...]

I want a better response to this question. It’s customary, in the United States at least, to answer with some variant of “good” regardless of how one actually feels or lives. I wonder if there is some other, more interesting and truthful answer that could lead to a valuable interaction.
I don’t want something just for [...]