yesterday's news

Virginia Heffernan says Life As We Know It is a good show in trouble, but doesn't actually make it sound appealing, which may be the problem.

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, New Yorkers. Batman, Brit. (The next movie has an London-born director, English sets, and a mostly-British cast.)

Paintings in the background of movies.

The Motorcycle Diaries, the film about Che Guevara's motorcycle trip across South America, is inspiring tourism.

Randall Stross recommends Firefox, and so do I.

Bin Laden, statesman? Christmas, besieged?

Extinction in Hawaii.

The Reading File directs us to a Wired interview with Hans Monderman, a traffic engineer who argues that roads can be made safer by making them seem more dangerous.

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From today's paper, some autism activists argue that it's not a disease and we shouldn't try to cure it.

"People don't suffer from Asperger's," Justin said. "They suffer because they're depressed from being left out and beat up all the time."

stuff that's happening

A recent songwriting morning involved opening up an American road atlas and picking out cities.

I'm planning to move my web site soon. There's a strong chance that it will be inaccessible for a while, and a small possibility that www2 or www3 will continue to work. I'm mentioning this mostly to give Google a chance to see them.

Can anyone think of a street in Los Angeles that one might go for a drive on (i.e., not to get somewhere, but just to go out) that's actually named _______ Street? All the ones I can think of are Boulevards, or maybe Avenues. And one Drive.

I am at this moment watching Spice World.