The coolest thing I’ve been involved with of late is Last Call Poker. If you look at the site, you’ll find that it seems to be a place to play online poker. When you register to play, you’ll be asked to provide the day of your death. You’ve got to be dead to play Last […]

Word has reached this office of the first Martian Poetry Slam. Commander Shannon Rupert and the rest of Crew 41 eagerly solicit your submissions by noon, January 9th. (Tight deadline, this.) Winners will receive “eternal glory” (and, we presume, no money). Winning submissions will be read aloud by someone or other and archived for future […]

Halojonesfan, in a response to the “Despair” essay below, linked to this article on the new popularity of tiny cattle. Which reminded me that I happened to have this picture of me on Tractor Beam, hauling one of our mini-cows to market.

The second-coolest thing I’ve encountered lately is pandora.com. Type in a favorite song, or a favorite performer, and a little invisible machine will start chugging out music of a similar stripe. The engine is not perfect— it judges a song based on its instrumentation and style rather than its content, which means you can end […]