Apple ][+-rendered music video for Grandaddy song. Very cool. Make sure you watch to the end. Thanks so much, Nathan.

"We find ourselves in a world shared by others. Connection comes first. Isolation and alienation are withdrawals from the pre-existence of what is shared. I think that helps explain why some sites 'work' and others don't."

If you haven't played it, please do. Probably my second-favorite video game.

"G.I. Joe is my magic totem. Gumby my light-bearer, reminding me of pure creativity." (Thanks, Dan.)

"The AIfIA Tools project aims to disseminate new IA tools from the community in order to learn from each other."

"You just can’t make this stuff up. You have to hear it to believe it. This may be the first class war in history where the victims will die laughing."

"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia."

Review of “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation”

*snap*

"One of the beauties of biology is that its facts can become our metaphors."

Lame to bookmark my own writing, but I need to pay attention to it.

"It is like attacking cancer with machine guns. There’s a lot of smoke, a lot of racket, a lot of blowing bystanders to bits. But after the smoke clears and the funeral parades trudge on, not one cancer cell has been cured."

"Somebody's got to ring that bell, somebody's got to write that poem, sing that song, dance that dance that says to us all, 'Rise, you're larger than that. It's up to you to define the final meaning of America.'"

"Large corporations in most Western nations destroy more jobs than they create. They grow by acquiring competing and emerging businesses, and offloading the redundant costs and labour."

"You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions – the progressive movement that started late in the 19th century and remade the American experience piece by piece until it peaked in the last third of the 20th century."

"Forget your perfect offering"

"If I sound a little bitter about this, I am; the President rightly appeals every day for sacrifice. But to these mercenaries sacrifice is for suckers. So I am bitter, yes, and sad. Our business and political class owes us better than this."