The Snail Shell

How the world would vote on the US president if the whole world could vote on the US president. It is a small sample, sure, it's only o...

Ooh! Double the fun, controversial topics. And double the being-a-crazy-hippie. I was born four decades too late. Except I like showers ...

Argh! I would kind of like to get out and do fun things, especially as Halloween is around the corner. Check that: I would like to meet fu...

Inbox today: "There's never been a more important time to support this movement for change." Well, it beats McCain campaigners...

Google Analytics just launched a lot of features at a conference called eMetrics. Here's a post about it , from a totally independent b...

as I do every now and then. (see, as most pop is aimed at like 15-year-olds, I am way old for this demographic. And I'm still at the a...

I was on stage in a Scotch'n'Soda show, and it was some adaptation of Shakespeare or something, and I didn't know my lines. Wel...

Quote from my inbox today: You already know how it feels to own a piece of this incredible movement. Will you watch the video and -- when Ba...

and not just because I work on it. Thanks to GA, I've been able to find that people have searched for the following things and landed o...

It's blog action day ! The theme is poverty! I'm sick of blogging for today, so I'll just shout out to Kiva . Hey, I was just...

Oh my god, oh my god, if you don't get the context of the title line, it's an inside joke from summer 2006. I do not hate gay peopl...

1. Two friends, with whom I interact on a regular basis (although independently of each other), are loud eaters. Arrgghh! 2. I spit on the ...

Fans of the formerly-at-CMU-but-now-not blogosphere may be familiar with the recipe challenge between Julie and me. If not, a quick recap: ...

The sun is shining, the brewhouses are making pumpkin ale, football players are getting fined for celebrating *, umm, leaves are turning col...

For once, I know what I want. A duvet cover. Queen size. Solid lime green like #00FF00 none of this fake lime stuff if I saw a lime like...

... so I don't. But I take my mental state with me. Wow! On a good day, I can go run a hundred miles after work! On a bad day, I can...

and it's awful. Chill out, McCain and Obama ! And here the blame falls maybe 50/50. I'd say it's 60% on Obama, because of his...

All you readers are pretty political. At least, some of you are. I have a question: I'd like to try to convince people to vote for Bar...

This guy wrote an article claiming that the optimal length of a song is 2:42. It's a nice argument, but it's wrong, and I present o...

Let's start with the downs, so we can end on a high note. I was That Guy twice tonight. No, not that That Guy, or that That Guy, or....