Quandary

So I noticed that there is  WNY Psychics Meetup Group on Meetup.com.
Query: why do psychics need Meetup.com?

From the video archives

AC/DC vs. Queen

XO Laptop

I’ve just received my XO laptop as part of the Give 1 Get 1 OLPC (one laptop per child) program. It arrived fully charged, and it took about 15 minutes to figure out how to enter the password for my home wifi router, but now it’s online. I haven’t had much of a [...]

What I Did on My Sabbatical

When I started my sabbatical back in June, my plans were to develop a new law school course on Privacy and Identity in Cyberspace.  My idea was to spend the six months reading a pile of literature on issues of changing contemporary views of identity and privacy in the Web 2.0 world.  I had a [...]

My Daemon

Meet my daemon, Vyena (from The Golden Compass movie site).

My birthday presents

My birthday presents
Originally uploaded by jmilles.

Office Space, This Is Spinal Tap, and My Little Cthulhu. I’m a lucky man.

Feist: Mushaboom

RIP Alfred H. Peet

Just a couple of days ago it was the late Michael Jackson; now comes word of the passing of Alfred H. Peet, the father of good coffee in the United States:
When Peet, who was Dutch, came to the United States in 1955, “America had a reputation internationally as having coffee that tasted like dishwater,” Jim [...]

Coin Operated Boy

A story from the NYT Magazine, via Neuroethics & Law Blog:
Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at M.I.T., worries that sociable robots might be easier to deal with than people are and that one day we might actually prefer our relationships with our machines. A female graduate student once [...]