I have 4 followers on Twitter (my Twitter page) and 9 (fans) on Pownce (my Pownce page) and I haven’t made any updates on either site. What’s up with that? I think I’ll have to start using whichever service reaches 20 followers first. I mean, I’ll owe it to them, right?

A man spends 10-20 hours every day with a woman in a virtual world. He “marries” her. Is he cheating on his flesh and blood wife? Of course he is. He may not be having sex with his virtual mistress but marriage is about a lot more than who you have sex with. Sitting alone [...]

I’m bemused and delighted. I’m not sure if it’s the way they talk about something without actually saying it, their smiling faces, or their over-the-top sincerity; but whatever it is, this site makes me happy. Clean is happy

In the United States, copying a DVD can get you up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. At least, that’s what all of my legally rented Netflix DVDs tell me every single time I watch them. For fun, I thought I’d see if that punishment was reasonable by surveying the California penal [...]

You know you’ve really “made it” as a species when you can waste time on narcissistic pursuits (like blogging). Food and shelter? Don’t bother me with trifles. I am posthuman. And just think: after a year of filming, they might even be able to edit together 90 minutes worth watching! (Then again, does “decadent, crumbling [...]

This is more fun that it has any right to be. My son stumbled across it while we were waiting for dinner. He loved it. Teletubbies: harmless, demented fun.

I just found out that the online Social Security Administration office locator doesn’t like working on weekends and holidays. Really. Like, they open so many new offices during the week that it takes them 9 hours to load all the new addresses Saturday night.

I’ve only got 16 within five miles of my home and even that seems ridiculously high. That’s one Starbucks for every 3,125 residents of my small town. There’s a competition over at kottke.org to see who has the highest density.

“I wanted to play Internet games so much. I wish I could just play games without having to think of anything else,” Mr. Jin told police.

I used to work with Heather, a contestant on Rebel Billionaire. So weird. She won’t talk so I have to watch the show to see how she did.