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45% Yankee 35% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? I'm not ...

Do you think you have a right to get free weather information from the government's weather service? Rick doesn't think so - he thi...

I hit 37,000 words this afternoon, which I suspect is somewhere close to being half way through. If I continue at my current pace, I should...

I spent last week working on Pittsburgh 2005: Conference on Health and Environment . It was a fascinating conference. As I wound up helpi...

I saw the Unitarian Jihad comments from Jon Carroll all over the place, both in political and SF-related blogs over the last few days. So I...

Russell wrote the splendid The Sparrow and Children of God in the late '90s, and went on to win the Campbell Award for best new write...

So up until about three weeks ago, I had about 17,000 words of a novel on my PC, one I started thinking of about four years ago. From time ...

I've been a huge fan of Michael Chabon since I read The Mysteries of Pittsburgh back in the '80s. He went on to write The Wonder B...

Phil sent me the good news on Monday night, so other than telling some friends, I haven't been able to say anything here until Interacti...

Of all the sad and tragic turns this case has taken, this is about the most appalling of all. Yet another example that it's better to fl...

I didn't just tinker yesterday - I wrote over 1,000 words. I haven't written that much fiction at once in a long time. And I'v...

I've always loved doing research on the Web. Some of the Web sites I've put together, particularly Dead People Server, demonstrate ...

Our county administrator, Dan Onorato, says that while initial assessments are available, they probably aren't the "real" asse...

I've been a huge fan of Google for years, but given some their current projects, I've got to wonder if going public has been bad for...

To my surprise, I managed to stay awake until the Oscars were over. I wrote up a bunch of comments on this year's Oscars , last year...

I was laid off, and immediately started making plans for how I would spend my unemployment. First off is, of course, getting a new job. Th...

Couldn't help but notice these two headlines on CNN this morning: Dad kills 2 kids, slits own throat Seven-month old sexually assaulted ...

When I asked Jim what he wanted to do for his 50th birthday this winter, he said "Go to Dublin." We did the math and figured we c...

I've been a pretty regular Saturday Night Live Fan (except for a few years in the early '80s and again in the mid '90s) for many...

In taking a break from sending out resumes today, I found a reference to the "What Book Are You?" quiz. Here are my results: Y...