Monthly archive June, 2009

These days, the states, like the rest of us, are scrounging around for cash, and in that search, their eyes are increasingly drifting in the direction of out-of-state online retailers, who traditionally have had to charge and collect state sales Read More →

The breaking news was so unexpected, so seemingly incongruous, it had people double-checking their calendars to be sure it wasn't April 1. Sweden's Pirate Bay — the cheeky, unrepentant champion of peer-to-peer file sharing and the bane of the entertainment Read More →

"A lot of companies have been bouncing checks. Some people have quit the business. A lot of companies have cut back shooting. There are a lot of girls who have not worked in a month." — Adult performer Annie Cruz Read More →

The 2009 winners of San Jose State's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (though I have to say yesterday's Lyttle Lyttons are more to my taste), and There, I Fixed It, an homage to kludges and jury rigging. Also, Read More →