Check out the latest iCast from U2: An unreleased Joshua Tree B-side, Wave of Sorrow is dissected and sung during an impromptu interview with Bono. He provides a wonderfully detailed history of the song's origins. It's really exciting to see the way that artists can connect to their fans through social media....

Jessica is pregnant again! She's approximately 7 weeks along, which means we just passed the point at which we lost the first one. Things seem to be going very well; in fact, I'd say that she's one of the happiest victims of Morning sickness to date. We've been having a lot of fun preparing food suited for pregnancy —...

I recently resumed reading the Harvard Classics , starting where I had left off. I had already read the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , so I set my sights on the second portion of the first volume: the Journal of John Woolman . Woolman was a devout Quaker whose writing and traveling precipitated the emancipation of bl...

"When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though a war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves." — Albert Camus...

Wired is running a very interesting story on using Lasers to destroy viruses . A very cool intersection between Physics and Biology....

A bug against Ubuntu's acpi-support package recently made the "headlines" on Digg, and it precipitated a flurry of worrisome blog posts and comments. I recently upgraded my VAIO laptop to the Gutsy Gibbon , so I was very curious about whether this would affect me. My understanding of the issue is this: Hard drive life expe...

Summer has ended, and the winds of fall blew my bark to a new workplace: iLike . I'm really enjoying myself there....