The way of Snood. Snood is one of those little Tetris-like games that eat up hours of my time when I succumb to my nastiest addiction. The high I get off of such games weakens each time, but I still fell pretty hard for Snood. Greg Costikyan explains why Snood and its ilk get no […]

the forgotten executioners Gštz Aly and Susanne Heim reveal the crucial role of academics and civil servants in their meticulous history of the men behind the Holocaust, Architects of Annihilation Peter Preston Sunday January 12, 2003 The Observer Architects of Annihilation by Gštz Aly and Susanne Heim Weidenfeld & Nicholson £25, pp514 How, 60 years […]

Dazzled by the science Biologists who dress up hi-tech eugenics as a new art form are dangerously deluded Jeremy Rifkin Tuesday January 14, 2003 The Guardian Recently, J Craig Venter, the gene scientist whose company, Celera Genomics, led the race to map the human genome, announced a plan to create the first artificial life form […]

John Palfrey Is A Blogger. John Palfrey Is A Blogger Don't you just love all the new bloggers coming online? John's part of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard and is up and running on his blog. He's a great guy, so stop by and say hello. Watch his blogroll grow …. […]

free to be freaky.. attention georgia citizens. you will be pleased to know that you are now free to fornicate at will. that's right! for the first time in 120 years, it is no longer illegal in the great peach state to get to know your neighbor in that special way. [MetaFilter] liberalism 120 years […]

The art of gaming My old friend (old as in long term: we were high school classmates, and attended many a science-fiction convention together) Greg Costikyan, the veteran game designer who has written some fine pieces for Salon about gaming, has started a blog of his own. “I want to talk about games, and game […]