With bookmarks inside:

• The roaring nineties : a new history of the world’s most prosperous decade – Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Free Culture – Lawrence Lessig

On my stack: * Defining the Wind – Scott Huler * The System of the World – Neal Stephenson * A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide – Samantha Power

Just finished: * Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell: a Novel – Susanna Clarke * Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers – Mary Roach

Hi again. You may have noticed a slight change in the looks of the site — I’ve moved from running this site with a heavily-kludged version of blosxom to a stock installation of wordpress.

It’s not a big change, but it was overdue, since I usually can’t go six months without completely replacing whatever I’m using to build this site. So nearly a year — that’s unprecedented.

First GLOGG TIME starts at Simon’s, now the announcement we’ve all been waiting for: Hot Doug’s to re-open in January, 2005!

I took some pictures with my future phone. Here’s the album — enjoy!

Giblets reports on Florida

Florida has been in the news lately – and for something other than election fraud! – where millions of residents are once again battling the elements for the right to continue living in an overheated swamp infested with blood-sucking insects and killer reptiles.

I don’t want to say that I don’t like Florida, but I will say that on my “Most Favorite American States and Commonwealths” list, it’s down in the bottom two percent.