Book Flog w/ David K.

I've decided to retire this blog for good. This decision is based on some pretty petty reasons: I've decided that the name 'Boo...

So. Summer is on its way out, and I have updated this blog even less than I did during the year. Which isn’t good, considering that a lot ...

Many ideological diatribes are stimulated by personal vendettas, and this one is no different. Today, I went to the physics office to pick ...

It’s an ugly trend, I know, for book reviews to center too much around the reviewer—a sign, perhaps, that the reviewer is too much of a self...

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. --Rei...

Among books, American Psycho is something of a dirty celebrity, a work whose dribbling trail of sleazy reputation precedes it. The one-sen...

Tonight, I read Neal Stephenson ’s book-length essay, In the Beginning…was the Command Line , which on one level is a meditation on computer...