Since 2004 American households have been putting away less than $400 in savings. That’s almost identical to the saving registered during the depression. How can such a rich country have so little to save? (That’s a rhetorical one. Okay? ‘Kay.)

The NYTimes has done yet another no-hold-barred data analysis of how indebted our country is and [...]

Earlier this month Michael David Murphy, a great photographer that should be in everyone’s flickr contact list, as an aside, pointed out the americangothic tag was worth a look. Until I met Molly I had presumed American Gothicism died with Faulker. She showed me where to look and who to read and how to see [...]

My very old friend Leonid Oliker, and winner of the annual Super Computing top paper award more times than I can recall, just got awarded top honors again for a joint effort that demonstrates how to build a super-supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors (i.e. what is used in modern cell phones and ipods) that [...]

If someone ever told me they have a photoshop face, I’d say “I know exactly what you mean!”
Somehow my face is frequently and inexplicably used, retouched, morphed, edited and re-represented for reasons beyond me. Recently a photo of me ended up being used along an article on how to become a police detective (it [...]

The following is from my my travel blog, June 29, 1999, after spending a month traveling in Myanmar.
My saddest news to report is that for all the hype Aung Sun Soo Kyi gets, and all the flack that is reported about the government, I didn’t get the feeling that anyone could dare topple the current [...]

» Are the recent assassinations of Pim Fortuyn the Parliament Member and Theo Van Gogh the movie director, and the current threats on PM Ayaan Hirsi Ali and anyone else that has publicly stated they are not in agreement with the tenets of Islam a true threat to Holland’s deep respect for tolerance of all [...]