The Devil gets all the good music

23 years ago

In spite of the fact that I'm what you might call a Zen Catholic, whenever I see the phrase "Christian…

Why I blog (well, one reason anyway…)

23 years ago

It allows me to control my online identity. And, as the Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet comic strip for May…

Another cabbie story, this one from the vault

23 years ago

This happened a little while back -- shortly after I'd graduated from Queen's, which puts it sometime in 1995, but…

The worst cabbie in Accordion City…

23 years ago

...was driving Diamond Taxi number 3091 yesterday at 10:45 a.m.. You get three guesses as to who his unfortunate passenger…

A cross they don’t want to bear

23 years ago

On the discussion Web site Plastic, some evidence that atheists have their own annoying fundamentalists too:A state historical landmark in…

Salam Pax’s return?

23 years ago

It would seem to be that way: MetaFilter reports that Salam Pax, the pseudonymous (Salam and Pax are respectively Arabic…

National Accordion Awareness Month: your first warning

23 years ago

I didn't know this until I stumbled across it: June is National Accordion Awareness Month. Established in 1989 to promote…

Hacking, painting, writing: two perspectives

23 years ago

In The Happiest Geek on Earth: It's synchronicity -- Paul Graham and Eric S. Raymond write on the relationship between…

Which FARK cliche are you?

23 years ago

I'm not obsessed with "Which X Are You?" tests -- Kelly's actually the queen of that -- but I couldn't…