The Snail Shell

I am not sure what it will be called. Perhaps Tati should name it. It is hers now, after all. And it's totally great. This is my f...

Considerations on cost disease Very many of our arguments should indeed be prefaced with "Look, really our main problem is that all...

(and no, this blog hasn't been taken over by a spam bot. I guess consider it somewhere between Oblique Strategies , 43 Simple Ways to S...

Your daily bad news is this podcast . The CBP has become the country's largest federal police force, routinely secretly violating peo...

Especially these days. Grad school's already taken its toll on my ability to blog with any regularity, but you throw in Voldemort an...

Say it again: Expose the hierarchical file system to the user. Or, in 2016-speak: Expose (clapemoji) The (clapemoji) Hierarchical (clape...

Check this out! See the turquoise "Yerka" on the frame? That's where it locks/unlocks. The whole frame comes apart and, t...

(A shame-free and hopefully patronization-free education zone) My post yesterday got a lot of good conversation going about men telling w...

- The incredible power of sexism. Hillary vs the worst man I've ever seen run for president, and here we go. - Well... maybe the repub...