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- 2010.05.19: this blog is no longer being updated
- 2009.12.13: Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border
- 2009.07.08: no one coulda predicted...
- 2009.06.11: does this word taste funny to you?
- 2009.06.11: it'll be even harder to get paid now
- 2009.06.11: how words shape ideas: "politically motivated shootings"
- 2009.06.01: what is the future of books and publishing?
- 2009.05.28: nonreader Kayne West publishes book...
- 2009.05.28: those words don't mean what you think they mean, dude
- 2009.05.23: "bookworm" is an insult (plus a bonus bizarre idea about words)...
- 2009.04.30: 100 words 100 days
- 2009.04.25: in case there isn't enough bullshit in your life
- 2009.04.10: phrase of the day: "Masters of the Business Apocalypse"
- 2009.04.07: so, writing IS for the rich only
- 2009.04.06: things that suck about freelancing (No. 1)
- 2009.04.01: best April Fool's Day prank: the 'Guardian' gets Twitterfied
- 2009.03.31: BBC News announces "Women spend too much money when they're on the rag"
- 2009.03.29: and what will we be saying 10 years from now?
- 2009.03.09: phrase of the day: "Great Recession"
- 2009.03.09: is writing for the rich only?
- 2009.02.17: "everyone should be abstinent"
- 2009.02.13: phrase of the day: "drunked out"
- 2009.02.12: word of the day: "afters"
- 2009.02.11: word of the day: "top-up"
- 2009.02.10: word of the day: "loo"
- 2009.02.09: word of the day: "bi-English"
- 2009.02.06: phrase of the day: "mogul hoard"
- 2009.02.05: word of the day: "saddlebacking"
- 2009.02.04: phrase of the day: "as useful as a chocolate teapot"
- 2009.02.03: word of the day: "bankster"
- 2009.02.02: apostrophe now
- 2009.02.01: only little people pay taxes
- 2009.01.29: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- 2009.01.29: why I hate women sometimes
- 2009.01.28: Starbucks closing more stores?
- 2009.01.28: something is really wrong...
- 2009.01.22: Jon Favreau is Obama's screenwriter?
- 2009.01.21: maybe the White House doesn't understand the Web at all
- 2009.01.21: finally: a White House that understands science, technology, and the Web
- 2009.01.20: you know what's sad?
- 2009.01.13: "From the Typewriter to the Bookstore: A Publishing Story"
- 2009.01.12: President Bush: "I is a author"
- 2009.01.12: Barack Obama: America's first geek president
- 2009.01.12: new year, new start for maryannjohanson.com
- 2008.11.27: something to be thankful for
- 2008.11.24: where's my rent bailout?
- 2008.11.24: shame on Citibank
- 2008.11.23: Goodnight Bush
- 2008.11.21: hug a puppy for mummy, or something
- 2008.10.28: what hope looks like
- 2008.10.19: everything old is new again
- 2008.10.15: Googling under the influence
- 2008.10.07: just so you know...
- 2008.09.24: thought for the moment
- 2008.09.23: the more things change...
- 2008.09.23: no Magic Roundabout for me
- 2008.09.22: Naomi Klein, GenX goddess
- 2008.09.22: snarking through the pain: Buy My Shitpile, Henry!
- 2008.09.22: I feel like such a fool
- 2008.09.20: thought for the moment
- 2008.09.20: you get the pitchfork, I'll bring the torch
- 2008.09.20: Thanks But No Thanks.com
- 2008.09.20: maybe America deserves what it's got coming
- 2008.09.14: thought for the moment
- 2008.09.14: this is what facism looks like
- 2008.09.12: thought for the moment
- 2008.09.09: newsflash: Campbell Brown is now a hard-hitting journalist
- 2008.09.08: Keith Olbermann demoted from MSNBC's election coverage; right-wing takeover of national media almost complete
- 2008.09.08: damn 'Onion,' making me cry again
- 2008.09.08: icons for your iPhone
- 2008.09.07: thought for the moment
- 2008.08.17: the Internet is finished -- we can all go home
- 2008.08.15: holy crap: tornado warning in NYC
- 2008.08.15: don't use your iPhone the way you want to use it...
- 2008.08.15: ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States
- 2008.08.13: China to little girl: "You're ugly"
- 2008.08.13: sexism at the Olympics
- 2008.08.07: if they can impeach a dictator in Pakistan, why can't we impeach George W. Bush?
- 2008.08.07: no one appreciates writers, even the people who hire them
- 2008.08.06: oh, wait: it's not fascism when we do it
- 2008.08.06: how do we fight the rising tide of fascism?
- 2008.08.05: thought for the moment
- 2008.08.05: Kindle is catching on
- 2008.08.05: celebrity chef sorry he tried to kill you
- 2008.08.01: Wal-Mart: the ongoing doom of America
- 2008.08.01: and today in WTF news...
- 2008.07.31: I walked with dinosaurs
- 2008.07.31: smog in Beijing is as refreshing as a hot shower
- 2008.07.30: writers: don't write for free
- 2008.07.30: paging Fox Mulder: WTF is the Montauk monster?
- 2008.07.30: "Woman, 44, gives birth to her 18th child in Canada
- 2008.07.24: thought for the moment
- 2008.07.23: summer in New York City
- 2008.07.22: hanging with the gnomies
- 2008.07.18: people have money these days?
- 2008.07.16: how not to be a writer
- 2008.07.09: the end of the world will be televised
- 2008.07.09: Star Trek Experience in Vegas is closing
- 2008.07.07: how to reach the evil demographic
- 2008.07.03: auspicious number at the deli this morning
- 2008.07.01: writers don't steal
- 2008.07.01: has Cory Doctorow gone to the dark side?
- 2008.07.01: you say you want a revolution?
- 2008.07.01: who made it July already?
- 2008.06.30: Barack Obama: spineless
- 2008.06.30: thought for the moment
- 2008.06.29: commenting problem fixed
- 2008.06.27: no ice in the Arctic
- 2008.06.25: sucks to be me
- 2008.06.24: neighborhood gas price watch
- 2008.06.24: thought for the moment
- 2008.06.24: human and whale do a musical duet
- 2008.06.23: me: official slacker, I guess
- 2008.06.23: the International Space Station grows
- 2008.06.23: jury duty in George Bush's America
- 2008.06.23: thought for the moment
- 2008.06.20: water on Mars
- 2008.06.18: RIP Cassie, 1990-2008
- 2008.06.18: thought for the moment
- 2008.06.17: 23MPG is not "surprisingly fuel efficient"
- 2008.06.16: thought for the moment
- 2008.06.16: it's okay to be a girl geek, as long as you're hot
- 2008.06.15: news junkies rejoice
- 2008.06.15: new trend? wifi in bars
- 2008.06.14: thought for the moment
- 2008.06.14: good lord, I'm doing the wrong kind of blogging
- 2008.06.13: calling bullshit on AT&T
- 2008.06.13: yes, I've been skiving off again...
- 2008.06.13: impeachy goodness
- 2008.06.11: John McCain is a computer moron
- 2008.06.11: fun at McMurdo base
- 2008.06.10: taking my life in my hands
- 2008.06.10: your shadow government at work
- 2008.06.10: the new iPhone may be cool, but...
- 2008.06.09: a study in sarcasm
- 2008.06.09: disgusting in the Bronx today
- 2008.06.09: imagine a world of good news
- 2008.06.06: thought for the moment
- 2008.02.20: quote of the week: No. 91
- 2008.02.20: Florida, Texas enter the 19th century
- 2008.01.10: AT&T proud to announce it will decide what bits of the Internet you can see
- 2008.01.10: me at Arisia next weekend
- 2007.11.29: should I buy a Kindle? looks like not
- 2007.11.28: did Choose Your Own Adventure Books make Xers cynical, or just realistic?
- 2007.11.27: Choose Your Own Adventure returns for adults
- 2007.11.20: most sad petblogging: RIP Celery and Snowbird (2003-7)
- 2007.11.12: Xers turn serious: Ron Livingston in ‘Holly’
- 2007.11.12: the crisis generational constellation snaps into focus in ‘Lions for Lambs’
- 2007.10.21: sad Sunday catblogging: RIP Sam (1990?-2007)
- 2007.08.13: I wish I were an otter
- 2007.08.10: Friday dogblogging: not my dog Skip
- 2007.08.10: why does AT&T hate free speech?
- 2007.08.08: on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things...
- 2007.08.08: where’s my jetpack?
- 2007.08.07: it’s not easy being a girl geek
- 2007.08.02: i’m in my depression, needin’ a laugh
- 2007.07.27: Friday birdblogging: yummy curly parsley
- 2007.07.25: this is crackers: cheese-related terrorism
- 2007.07.24: Stephen Colbert: Harry Potter fan
- 2007.07.23: the roots of Harry Potter: magic in myth and folklore
- 2007.07.23: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ blogging: initial reactions
- 2007.07.21: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ blogging update 3
- 2007.07.21: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ blogging update 2
- 2007.07.21: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ blogging update
- 2007.07.21: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ blogging
- 2007.07.20: now I get it! (the Christian opposition to Harry Potter)
- 2007.07.20: the new iRack from Apple
- 2007.07.19: does loving tech toys make us less human, usher in the robot holocaust?
- 2007.07.19: Welcome Back, Potter
- 2007.07.19: when geekery turns bad: the evils of Photoshop
- 2007.07.18: Merriam Webster plays with RPGs
- 2007.07.16: Harry Potter and the trafficwhoring link roundup
- 2007.07.13: Friday catblogging: Sam is ailing
- 2007.07.13: the geek approach to getting out of Iraq
- 2007.07.13: Onion or AP? #5
- 2007.07.13: Harry Potter date rape?
- 2007.07.11: I is an editor
- 2007.07.09: happy birthday, Roswell crash!
- 2007.07.08: Spinal Tap at Live Earth
- 2007.07.08: more on Live Earth: music piracy as a blow against global warming
- 2007.07.07: David Tennant saves the planet
- 2007.07.07: Live Earth: who said rock ’n’ roll couldn’t save the world?
- 2007.07.07: Doctor Who blogging now, over at FlickFilosopher.com
- 2007.06.16: what a geek dreams
- 2007.06.11: a question about the Creation Museum: I pray for enlightenment
- 2007.06.11: the state of the world: geeks lead as leaders dawdle
- 2007.06.08: Museum of Ignorance: witchcraft in the 21st century
- 2007.06.08: will Harry Potter die?
- 2007.06.01: Friday dogblogging: Rosie with pizza
- 2007.06.01: the revolution will be webcast
- 2007.06.01: I guess there are more girl geeks around than I thought...
- 2007.05.08: it’s official: Tobey Maguire is not a geek
- 2007.05.08: more nonsense about blogging from Sree Sreenivasan
- 2007.05.05: new great depression? depressed yet?
- 2007.05.05: Saturday Stargate blogging: LOL Rodney
- 2007.04.27: Friday birdblogging: peppers and eggs
- 2007.04.12: minimum monthly payment: 60 hours building the seawall
- 2007.04.12: Kurt Vonnegut: RIP
- 2007.04.11: Museum of Ignorance: Hail to the Cretin edition
- 2007.04.11: I been Technorati tagged!
- 2007.04.10: ‘My Science Fiction Life’ at the BBC
- 2007.04.06: Friday catblogging: Sam gets shaved!
- 2007.04.02: Whitley Striber: aliens are coming
- 2007.04.01: Jamie "Apollo" Bamber speaks, now with video
- 2007.04.01: Museum of Ignorance: peanut butter -- nuttiness is next to godliness
- 2007.03.30: Star Wars stamps: may the First Class be with you
- 2007.03.19: Museum of Ignorance debuts: how stupid are Americans?
- 2007.03.04: steal these domains: bespinicecreamguy.com, etc
- 2007.03.02: getting geekiness, and not: ‘Wild Hogs’ and ‘Zodiac’
- 2007.03.02: weather isn’t climate, but still, tornadoes and early spring can’t be good
- 2007.02.16: Friday plantblogging: the surviving adopted cacti
- 2007.02.15: in which I revisit my childhood and discover the new ‘Mouse Guard’
- 2007.02.14: my schedule at Boskone this weekend
- 2007.02.14: ‘The Astronaut Farmer,’ Virgin Earth, and backyard tinkerers
- 2007.02.13: scrubbing the Earth’s atmosphere clean, and next Mars’?
- 2007.02.12: Danger Mouse wins Grammy!
- 2007.02.11: breaking news: Anna Nicole Smith's unstoppable zombie corpse roaming streets of Broward County, 19 dead
- 2007.02.10: Friday birdblogging: pretty colors
- 2007.02.09: breaking news: I may be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby
- 2007.02.09: Friday catblogging: not my cats
- 2007.02.08: NBC: still not getting the blogger thing
- 2007.02.08: breaking news: Anna Nicole Smith still dead
- 2007.02.07: I will not obsess, I will not obsess, I will not obsess...
- 2007.02.06: NYC blogger summit makes the New York Post
- 2007.02.05: Doctor Who and the French Dalek
- 2007.02.02: NYC blogger summit: smell the glove
- 2007.02.02: naked Harry Potter in Hogwarts sex romp?
- 2007.02.02: Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the bomb
- 2007.02.02: Friday catblogging: oh, the excitement
- 2007.02.01: Beantown goes off the deep end over a cartoon
- 2007.01.19: Friday catblogging returns
- 2007.01.05: geek/dork/nerd: Clive-*sigh*-Owen edition
- 2006.12.28: geek/dork/nerd: year-in-review edition
- 2006.12.11: lame excuses for not blogging
- 2006.11.18: Saturday geek koan: get in the gate
- 2006.11.16: geek/dork/nerd: the-spy-who-loved-me edition
- 2006.11.11: my Philcon schedule
- 2006.11.11: Saturday geek koan: fly me to the moon
- 2006.11.09: geek/dork/nerd: pick-the-new-James-Kirk edition
- 2006.11.06: and I'll get back to 'Doctor Who' again, too -- promise!
- 2006.11.06: come hang out with me at Philcon, Arisia, and Boskone
- 2006.11.04: Saturday geek koan: cuddly conformity
- 2006.11.03: Friday catblogging: Mrs. Kennedy, 1994?-2006
- 2006.11.03: geek/dork/nerd: save-the-cheerleader edition
- 2006.10.28: Saturday geek koan: nun so blind...
- 2006.10.26: geek/dork/nerd: not-a-journalist-but-plays-one-on-TV edition
- 2006.10.21: Saturday geek koan: we can dance if we want to
- 2006.10.19: geek/dork/nerd: after-the-apocalypse edition
- 2006.10.14: Saturday geek koan: Mr. Crusher made it so
- 2006.10.13: Friday catblogging: cats in bed
- 2006.10.09: how I got converted to 'Battlestar Galactica'...
- 2006.10.07: Saturday geek koan: Sting say...
- 2006.10.05: geek/dork/nerd: Battlestar-Galactica-is-back edition
- 2006.09.30: Saturday geek koan: where do baby geeks come from?
- 2006.09.30: are you a geek, a dork, or a nerd?
- 2006.09.28: geek/dork/nerd: banned-books edition
- 2006.09.27: how geeky ideas and how we eat are colliding
- 2006.09.23: Saturday geek koan: way of the warrior
- 2006.09.16: Saturday geek koan: robot love
- 2006.09.14: geek/dork/nerd: taking a little break
- 2006.09.12: the trees are going, going...
- 2006.09.12: the generation gap: Boomers still high and getting higher
- 2006.09.09: Saturday geek koan: dead gremlin
- 2006.09.08: Friday catblogging: Sam is ready for his closeup
- 2006.09.08: neighborhood BP gas price watch: 09.08.06
- 2006.09.07: A Wookiee as a pet?
- 2006.09.07: geek/dork/nerd: back-to-school-(the teachers) edition
- 2006.09.06: Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter: Xer, geek, generational marker
- 2006.09.06: the fannish cars of Worldcon
- 2006.09.02: praise for ‘The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride’ from John Scalzi and Jim Mann
- 2006.09.01: special Friday dogblogging: Worldcon dogs
- 2006.08.31: geek/dork/nerd: geek/geek/geek-Keith edition
- 2006.08.31: ‘The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride’: now on sale
- 2006.08.30: 'The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride' now on Amazon
- 2006.08.30: Worldcon report: all over but the reporting
- 2006.08.26: Worldcon report: scenes from Thursday (part 2)
- 2006.08.25: Friday birdblogging: geek birds
- 2006.08.25: Worldcon report: scenes from Thursday (part 1)
- 2006.08.24: geek/dork/nerd: nerd/nerd/nerd-Worldcon-robot edition
- 2006.08.24: Worldcon report: Wednesday
- 2006.08.19: Saturday geek koan: criminal code
- 2006.08.17: geek/dork/nerd: heavenly-bodies edition
- 2006.08.16: sex in the form of a digital camera
- 2006.08.16: a single generation of geeks
- 2006.08.13: my Worldcon schedule; come hear me yak about movies and TV and blogging
- 2006.08.12: Saturday geek koan: the tyranny of remote controls
- 2006.08.11: geek/dork/nerd: japes-on-a-plane edition
- 2006.08.04: geek/dork/nerd: dog-days-of-summer edition
- 2006.07.28: Friday catblogging: more Mrs. Kennedy
- 2006.07.28: geek/dork/nerd: quit-bugging-me edition
- 2006.07.27: to blog or not to blog, that is the question...
- 2006.07.23: site was down on Saturday; blame global warming
- 2006.07.21: Friday plant blogging: whole lotta cacti
- 2006.07.21: neighborhood BP gas price watch: 07.21.06
- 2006.07.20: geek/dork/nerd: Bruce-Campbell-is-God edition
- 2006.07.18: neighborhood BP gas price watch: 07.18.06
- 2006.07.14: Friday catblogging: kitties all hot and bothered, or not
- 2006.07.14: Friday geek news tidbits: lords of the ringtones, beautiful balloon space station, more
- 2006.07.13: geek/dork/nerd: julie-julie-julie-in-july edition
- 2006.07.12: is the world ready for Dick... Philip K. that is? (at IROSF)
- 2006.07.12: Wednesday geek news tidbits: MacGyver in orbit, Frankenstein the garden, more
- 2006.07.10: Monday geek news tidbits: more fodder for the gender wars, gods and aliens, more
- 2006.07.08: Kevin Spacey does Christopher Walken doing Han Solo
- 2006.07.07: Friday dogblogging: not my dog Skip
- 2006.07.07: Friday geek news tidbits: NYTimes vs. geeks (again), street gangs go online, more
- 2006.07.07: geek/dork/nerd: all-pirates-these-days edition
- 2006.07.06: Thursday geek news tidbits: Shatner on your voicemail, nanotech in the garage, more
- 2006.07.06: ‘Wordplay’ caption contest, win ‘Crossworld’ by Marc Romano AND 'Wordplay: The Official Companion Book' (now closed)
- 2006.07.05: Wednesday geek new tidbits: scientists like Gore, science illiterates don’t, more
- 2006.07.05: first look at David Tennant’s Doctor Who -- watch it here!
- 2006.07.05: recommended classic ‘Doctor Who’ on DVD
- 2006.07.04: Tuesday geek news tidbits: nanotech patriotism, rewiring the brain, more
- 2006.07.03: Doctor Who blogging: The Long Game/Father's Day
- 2006.07.03: Monday geek news tidbits: Jupiter weather report, net moronity, more
- 2006.07.02: neighborhood BP gas price watch: 07.02.06
- 2006.07.01: Saturday catblogging: three of a kind
- 2006.07.01: geek/dork/nerd: is-that-a-cape-you’re-wearing edition
- 2006.06.27: Harry Potter RIP? I’m not at all surprised
- 2006.06.27: the new geek grownup: ‘New York’ magazine approves... sort of
- 2006.06.23: good geek news (‘Futurama’), bad geek news (Jump the Shark)
- 2006.06.23: Friday catblogging: Mrs. Kennedy, looking cute
- 2006.06.22: geek/dork/nerd: hot-in-the-city edition
- 2006.06.22: Joe Klein, Barack Obama, and generations in waiting
- 2006.06.22: signs of summer: geek style
- 2006.06.19: how the tide shifts: the generational cycle at work before our very eyes
- 2006.06.18: coming crisis hints: bubble boys, bankruptcy, and bird flu
- 2006.06.15: how do I love MacGyver? let me count the ways...
- 2006.06.15: Geek/Dork/Nerd: another-fine-mess edition
- 2006.06.13: neighborhood BP gas price watch: 06.12.06
- 2006.06.12: coffee and alcohol: go nuts
- 2006.06.09: Friday catblogging: Captain Nemo Tubbs, 1993-2006
- 2006.06.09: I’ve been Gored: Al Gore, global warming, and the vital rise of geek philosophy
- 2006.06.09: Geek/Dork/Nerd: let’s-have-a-rainbow-wedding edition
- 2006.06.06: the six-six-sixth sense, or 666 passes me by
- 2006.06.06: Hollywood eats its own brain! (at IROSF)
- 2006.06.02: nerd fantasies
- 2006.06.01: Geek/Dork/Nerd: walk-in-June edition
- 2006.05.30: ‘Behind the Screen: The Princess Bride’: mostly dead is a little alive
- 2006.05.25: Geek/Dork/Nerd: X-marks-the-spot edition
- 2006.05.25: This day in geek history
- 2006.05.25: Department of Can’t Make This Stuff Up: the ‘Washington Post’ out-Onions The Onion?
- 2006.05.21: wines for geeks: Chateau Picard, Cabzilla, Red Flyer, Vampire...
- 2006.05.19: Friday catblogging: Daily Kitten
- 2006.05.19: 1 billion people have Internet access
- 2006.05.18: Geek/Dork/Nerd: cup-of-Christ edition
- 2006.05.17: Building the Internet bookshelf
- 2006.05.17: The handmaid’s wail: forever pregnant
- 2006.05.16: UFOs RIP
- 2006.05.15: Geeks name favorite geeks: all guys, no girls
- 2006.05.14: Damn you, Russell Davies, and the TARDIS you materialized in on!
- 2006.05.13: Doctor Who blogging: World War Three/Dalek
- 2006.05.12: Friday catblogging: Mrs. Kennedy curled in comfort
- 2006.05.12: Geeks on “purity balls”: eww
- 2006.05.12: Gen X memes spreading through blogosphere?
- 2006.05.11: Geek/Dork/Nerd: stupid-stunts edition
- 2006.05.10: move and slight redesign
- 2006.05.10: Monster of rock, Mt. St. Helen's style
- 2006.05.10: Tenth annual Webby Awards: it’s good to be corporate
- 2006.05.10: Onion or AP? #4
- 2006.05.09: Wouldn’t Dr. Gregory House totally solve the ‘Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America’ case in like an hour (minus commercials)?
- 2006.05.09: News of your birth is spreading at the speed of light
- 2006.05.09: Han shot first -- on DVD!
- 2006.05.08: David Blaine: dumbest Xer ever
- 2006.05.08: Feeling floppy?
- 2006.05.08: 'Doctor Who' kicks BAFTA ass
- 2006.05.07: SF, history, and the depopulation of the Great Plains
- 2006.05.06: 'Firefly''s Nathan Fillion on comic books
- 2006.05.05: Friday catblogging: sleek Cassie
- 2006.05.05: ‘Lost’ and ‘Desperate Housewives’ downloaders crash ABC servers, and the meaning of piracy
- 2006.05.04: Geek/Dork/Nerd: don't-feed-the-plant edition
- 2006.05.04: Joss Whedon, geek, honored for his feminism
- 2006.05.03: Free comic book day
- 2006.05.03: Spelling nerds rejoice: national spelling bee in primetime
- 2006.05.02: Irony as a weapon: Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
- 2006.05.01: Department of doublethink: all hail Big Brother Bush
- 2006.05.01: Kaavya Viswanathan: like oh my god
- 2006.04.30: Supernova 1006: when stars blew up real good
- 2006.04.30: Odyssey 5: Best. SF. TV. Ever?
- 2006.04.30: Robot Chicken: Gen X on too much caffeine
- 2006.04.28: Friday catblogging: Mrs. Kennedy at rest
- 2006.04.28: Michelle Pfeiffer and the devoted geeks who love her
- 2006.04.28: TV Turnoff Week? For losers only
- 2006.04.28: Stupid waste-of-time online quizzes I'm addicted to
- 2006.04.27: Geek/Dork/Nerd: hip-hop ed-shizzle-ition
- 2006.04.27: The end of Net neutrality?
- 2006.04.25: When geeks do evil: standees on a plane
- 2006.04.25: ‘Lestat’ on Broadway: well, it’s certainly sucking
- 2006.04.25: Dimming the sun, soylent green, and the price of gas
- 2006.04.20: Geek/Dork/Nerd: give-us-your-tired edition
- 2006.04.19: One solution to Stargate withdrawal
- 2006.04.19: Lost and the new lost generation: Xers
- 2006.04.19: 9/11: the graphic novel
- 2006.04.19: Slither caption contest (now closed)
- 2006.04.18: Courting the geek: as bloggers gain influence, product placement in comic books
- 2006.04.18: Walter Kirn’s online novel ‘The Unbinding’
- 2006.04.16: Church sign generation: atheistic fun!
- 2006.04.16: Miracles of Jesus explained. Or not...
- 2006.04.16: The new face of Sunday afternoon
- 2006.04.16: Night of the Lepus: The Easter Massacre
- 2006.04.14: Friday catblogging: Cassie and the comfy chair
- 2006.04.14: News of the cute: Anderson Cooper in love with puppies, kitty-in-the-wall
- 2006.04.14: Mars Reconaissance Orbiter sends postcards from the Red Planet
- 2006.04.14: The Internet and censorship
- 2006.04.13: Geek/Dork/Nerd: thanks-Easter-bunny edition
- 2006.04.13: Iceland: cool and connected
- 2006.04.13: Cool stuff roundup: movies, magazines, more
- 2006.04.12: Bringing the war on Easter
- 2006.04.10: Season 2 Doctor Who news
- 2006.04.07: Friday catblogging: something fishy
- 2006.04.06: Geek/Dork/Nerd: baby-love edition
- 2006.04.06: Dave Itzkoff and always-wrong Ned: separated at birth?
- 2006.04.06: Monty Python: reluctant prophets
- 2006.04.05: Think of the children!
- 2006.04.05: 01:02:03 04/05/06
- 2006.04.04: Corporate content versus the Internet
- 2006.04.04: Dinosaurs and cancer
- 2006.04.04: Boobs in space
- 2006.04.03: Doctor Who blogging: The Unquiet Dead/Aliens of London
- 2006.04.01: SS Doomtrooper: liveblogging the crap
- 2006.04.01: Prayer does not heal the sick
- 2006.04.01: Google Romance...
- 2006.03.31: Crap patrol: SS Doomtrooper
- 2006.03.31: Friday bird blogging: sit still!
- 2006.03.31: The novel of the future
- 2006.03.30: Geek/Dork/Nerd: ow-my-iPod edition
- 2006.03.30: Salon doesn’t get ‘Doctor Who’
- 2006.03.30: Lord of the Rings: The Musical: The Mess
- 2006.03.30: WaMu: marketing ploy or killer whale?
- 2006.03.29: Evil advertising: General Motors and Everclear
- 2006.03.28: Sci-Fi's 'The Triangle' DVD giveaway
- 2006.03.28: Office Pirates: yo ho ha ha. Not
- 2006.03.24: Off to I-Con
- 2006.03.24: Friday catblogging: help!
- 2006.03.23: Geek/Dork/Nerd: what's-cookin' edition
- 2006.03.23: ‘Snakes on a Plane’ and collaborative geekiness
- 2006.03.22: V's V speech
- 2006.03.22: Onion or AP? #3
- 2006.03.21: Star Wars: The TV Series
- 2006.03.21: FBI: Email? We don’t need no stinkin’ email!
- 2006.03.20: What does Google owe its users?
- 2006.03.20: Does anyone get ‘V for Vendetta’?
- 2006.03.20: Doctor Who blogging: Rose/The End of the World
- 2006.03.17: Furry blond lobster updates
- 2006.03.17: Geek/Dork/Nerd: the-hair-up-there edition
- 2006.03.16: Alan Moore and ‘V for Vendetta,’ the movie
- 2006.03.15: The real story on Isaac Hayes and ‘South Park’
- 2006.03.15: Ides of March for geeks
- 2006.03.14: Happy Pi Day!
- 2006.03.14: Be afraid: your Google searches not private
- 2006.03.14: Atrios goes all text adventure on Lieberman’s ass
- 2006.03.14: Kermit shills
- 2006.03.13: Google Earth: coolest geek toy ever
- 2006.03.13: The geeks are revolting!
- 2006.03.13: The power of parody: China surrenders
- 2006.03.12: Saturday (belated) Stargate blogging:
- 2006.03.11: Saturday Stargate-blogging: delayed
- 2006.03.11: The New York Times doesn’t get science fiction
- 2006.03.10: Friday catblogging: sleeping Cassie
- 2006.03.10: Meet me at Lunacon, I-Con, and Worldcon
- 2006.03.10: Make millions from Google AdSense... or $3
- 2006.03.10: Join the Church of William Shatner
- 2006.03.10: Mark Morford on our nation of caffeine junkies
- 2006.03.10: Censuring the censorers
- 2006.03.09: Geek/Dork/Nerd: mutated-freaks edition
- 2006.03.09: Get Over It Day
- 2006.03.09: How to get un-f**ked: cold fusion
- 2006.03.09: More 'we are f**ked'
- 2006.03.08: Is fannishness the driving force of geekiness?
- 2006.03.08: Creepy-cool new undersea monster revealed
- 2006.03.08: From incipient fascism to crazy weather, we’re f**ked
- 2006.03.07: Have you seen this mutant?
- 2006.03.07: How to satirize blogging
- 2006.03.07: Wal-Mart sells astroturf!
- 2006.03.06: Robin's Big Date
- 2006.03.06: The first Xer Oscars
- 2006.03.04: Saturday Stargate-blogging
- 2006.03.03: Ultraviolet: not screened for critics
- 2006.03.02: Geek/Dork/Nerd: yippie-ki-ay-mofos edition
- 2006.03.02: Jon Stewart is smarter than Les Moonves
- 2006.03.02: my ‘Princess Bride’ book: only mostly dead
- 2006.03.01: Passion of the geek
- 2006.02.28: Wiki me
- 2006.02.28: To Google or not to Google...
- 2006.02.28: Interface nostalgia
- 2006.02.27: Rumors of blogging’s death
- 2006.02.27: Octavia Butler dead, lives on
- 2006.02.27: First NY Comic-Con, and I missed it
- 2006.02.25: Saturday Stargate-blogging
- 2006.02.24: Friday plant blogging: scary cactus
- 2006.02.24: Electronic slavedrivers?
- 2006.02.23: Geek/Dork/Nerd: my-heroes-have-always-been edition
- 2006.02.23: How to make money online (or not)
- 2006.02.22: Geeks of the Week: Carol Buckley and Scott Blais of The Elephant Sanctuary
- 2006.02.21: Stargate blogging thwarted...
- 2006.02.19: Brief Boskone wrapup
- 2006.02.18: Boskone blogging...
- 2006.02.18: Follow the yellow (and green and red and blue) bricks
- 2006.02.18: How to deal (with geeks)
- 2006.02.18: Saturday Stargate-blogging: not so much
- 2006.02.17: Friday plant blogging: plots against me
- 2006.02.17: Yo ho boo hoo
- 2006.02.17: Art for geeks
- 2006.02.16: Lost like an Egyptian
- 2006.02.16: Geek/Dork/Nerd: I-vant-to-suck edition
- 2006.02.16: Onion or AP? #2
- 2006.02.15: To speak to a customer service representative...
- 2006.02.15: I is an author
- 2006.02.14: Milk-carton SF: Have you seen these movies?
- 2006.02.14: Geek of the Week: Cory Doctorow
- 2006.02.14: My snarky Valentine
- 2006.02.13: The enduring wisdom of Dilbert
- 2006.02.13: Lost: The New Gilligan’s Island?
- 2006.02.13: Paneling my way through Boskone
- 2006.02.12: Boldly going bankrupt
- 2006.02.12: Hey you guuuuyyys!
- 2006.02.11: Ad nauseum
- 2006.02.11: Saturday Stargate-blogging
- 2006.02.10: Science as a box of chocolates...
- 2006.02.10: Friday catblogging: Warhol kitty
- 2006.02.09: All your jihad are belong to us
- 2006.02.09: Geek/Dork/Nerd: hackxor-chronicles edition
- 2006.02.08: Newsweek on notice
- 2006.02.08: What a drag it is gettin’ old...
- 2006.02.07: Geek of the Week: John Aravosis
- 2006.02.03: Friday catblogging: Sam from on high
- 2006.02.02: Geek/Dork/Nerd: pants-on-fire edition
- 2006.02.02: 150-year-old geeks saddened
- 2006.02.02: A million little lies, and the lying liars who tell them
- 2006.01.31: Best. Headline. Ever.
- 2006.01.30: Geek of the Week: Dr. James Hansen
- 2006.01.29: Trust the computer -- the computer is your friend
- 2006.01.29: The Three-Minute Movie
- 2006.01.28: Like it was yesterday...
- 2006.01.27: Friday catblogging: tummy rubs
- 2006.01.26: Geek/Dork/Nerd: Marsward, ho! edition
- 2006.01.26: And now, the news for geeks...
- 2006.01.20: Lurching toward irrelevancy
- 2006.01.20: Friday plant blogging: soothing aloe vera my foot
- 2006.01.20: Weather or not
- 2006.01.20: Welcome to the dollhouse
- 2006.01.19: Elegy for a geek
- 2006.01.19: Geek/Dork/Nerd: life-is-pain edition
- 2006.01.18: How to be a conventional geek
- 2006.01.17: Revolutionary geek
- 2006.01.17: Worst. Aliens. Ever.
- 2006.01.17: To geek, or not to geek
- 2006.01.14: Your tax dollars at work, making science fiction a reality
- 2006.01.13: Friday catblogging: sunny kitties
- 2006.01.13: What a load of debunk
- 2006.01.13: Onion or AP?
- 2006.01.12: Real journalists are, like, totally hot
- 2006.01.12: Geek/Dork/Nerd: everyone-is-entitled-to-my-opinion edition
- 2006.01.12: The hunting of the snark
- 2006.01.11: This is what happens to girl geeks
- 2006.01.11: Canals of Insanity
- 2006.01.10: I'll have your Spam, dear -- I luv it!
- 2006.01.06: Friday catblogging: survival of the cutest
- 2006.01.05: Geek/Dork/Nerd: get-in-the-gate edition
- 2006.01.05: These go to 11
- 2006.01.05: How a movie gets to be extra wow
- 2005.12.31: Ringing in the new year
- 2005.12.30: Friday catblogging: cat state
- 2005.12.30: Conversations with geeks: Charles Ross
- 2005.12.29: Game of four
- 2005.12.29: Geek/Dork/Nerd: time-keeps-on-slippin' edition
- 2005.12.27: Oh, there’s nothing like geek for the holidays
- 2005.12.25: Reprogramming my subroutines
- 2005.12.25: Holiday catblogging: 'Twas the night before Christmas
- 2005.12.22: Geek/Dork/Nerd: here-comes-Santa-Claus edition
- 2005.12.15: Geek/Dork/Nerd: monkey-in-the-middle edition
- 2005.12.13: Conversations with geeks: Doug Savage
- 2005.12.09: Friday catblogging: Cat with ugly couch
- 2005.12.09: Lost in the triangle
- 2005.12.09: Twisted yarn
- 2005.12.08: Geek/Dork/Nerd: here-kitty-kitty edition
- 2005.12.06: Tilda Swinton: elemental force of nature
- 2005.12.06: In search of geek TV
- 2005.12.04: Financial press takeover
- 2005.12.01: Geek/Dork/Nerd: let-it-snow edition
- 2005.11.28: ET, please login
- 2005.11.25: Friday plantblogging: Do they know it's Christmastime at all?
- 2005.11.24: Geek/Dork/Nerd: it-is-balloon! edition
- 2005.11.22: Music of my childhood
- 2005.11.18: Friday catblogging: Evil Sam
- 2005.11.17: Geek/Dork/Nerd: tenth-level-wizard edition
- 2005.11.17: Not-so-deep space
- 2005.11.16: Xers in the media? Not quite yet...
- 2005.11.11: Friday catblogging: Cassie, annoyed
- 2005.11.11: Turtles all the way down
- 2005.11.10: Do-it-yourself SciFi Friday
- 2005.11.10: Geek/Dork/Nerd: buck-buck-buck edition
- 2005.11.09: Stephen Colbert: geek
- 2005.11.09: World famous in hyperspace
- 2005.11.04: Schrödingerian metaphysics
- 2005.11.04: Friday catblogging: cat among the cactus
- 2005.11.03: Ascendancy of GenX geeks: anecdotal evidence
- 2005.11.03: The totally imaginary GenX Arts and Cultural Summit: V. 1.1
- 2005.11.03: Geek/Dork/Nerd: who-was-that-masked-man edition
- 2005.11.02: Move over, Boomer
- 2005.11.01: The circle is complete
- 2005.10.29: Not that there’s anything wrong with that
- 2005.10.28: Scaring Generation X: SF Horror Films of the 1980s
- 2005.10.27: Geek/Dork/Nerd: All Hallows’ Eve edition
- 2005.10.23: Zombie apocalypse shuffles in
- 2005.10.21: Friday catblogging: find your own damn kitty pix
- 2005.10.21: Which fantasy/sci-fi character are you?
- 2005.10.21: Mostly movies (and a little TV)
- 2005.10.20: Geek/Dork/Nerd: games-people-play edition
- 2005.10.20: Seeing right through the impact of Star Trek
- 2005.10.20: Dreams of a digital future
- 2005.10.17: Nevermore again for the first time...
- 2005.10.14: Friday catblogging: pillow talk with Mrs. Kennedy
- 2005.10.13: Geek/Dork/Nerd: "the horror, the horror" edition
- 2005.10.12: Geek helpless against appeal of books
- 2005.10.12: So long, and thanks for all the cult TV...
- 2005.10.12: Generations in toyland
- 2005.10.10: Murdered by Ringwraiths is good...
- 2005.10.09: Art, culture, and generational boundaries
- 2005.10.09: At the movies
- 2005.10.07: Friday catblogging: Sammy
- 2005.10.06: Geek/Dork/Nerd: breaking-news edition
- 2005.10.03: Geek golden age postponed...
- 2005.09.30: Friday dogblogging: Rosie and Daisy
- 2005.09.29: Geek/Dork/Nerd: in-the-black edition
- 2005.09.28: Rise of the geek?
- 2005.09.28: Conversations with geeks: Neil Gaiman
- 2005.09.28: Serenity Week continues...
- 2005.09.27: SF don’t get no respect
- 2005.09.27: Speculating about speculative fiction
- 2005.09.26: Nathan Fillion: geek
- 2005.09.23: Friday catblogging: portrait of the kitty
- 2005.09.22: Geek/Dork/Nerd: upon-the-ocean-blue edition
- 2005.09.22: Watery gravy
- 2005.09.19: Jack Sparrow, phone your office
- 2005.09.18: Catching up on my reading
- 2005.09.16: Friday catblogging: Sam among the books
- 2005.09.15: Geek/Dork/Nerd: back-to-school edition
- 2005.09.13: He does all the voices
- 2005.09.13: I scream, you scream, we all scream for brains...
- 2005.09.09: Friday catblogging: coy Cassie
- 2005.09.08: Geek/Dork/Nerd: you-call-this-archaeology edition
- 2005.09.07: Don’t call them comic strips...
- 2005.09.07: Gen X is moving and shaking...
- 2005.09.02: There is no god...
- 2005.09.02: Friday catblogging: chow time
- 2005.09.01: Art and culture in a time of crisis
- 2005.09.01: Geek/Dork/Nerd: get-on-yer-bike edition
- 2005.09.01: Fill 'er up, ma'am?
- 2005.08.30: Booking Katrina
- 2005.08.27: Out of gas?
- 2005.08.26: It's Sci Fi Friday...
- 2005.08.26: The new DIY spirituality...
- 2005.08.26: Friday catblogging: the jacket
- 2005.08.25: Red pill, blue pill: Matrix philosophy goes mainstream
- 2005.08.25: Geek/Dork/Nerd: Muppets edition
- 2005.08.24: Making our own rituals
- 2005.08.23: You might be a geek if...
- 2005.08.19: Friday birdblogging
- 2005.08.18: Sex and the single nerd
- 2005.08.18: Geek/Dork/Nerd: lovers-not-fighters edition
- 2005.08.17: These aren’t the grunts you’re looking for...
- 2005.08.17: The revolution begins here?
- 2005.08.16: We are the Web...
- 2005.08.16: More geek bashing
- 2005.08.12: Friday catblogging: Emmy and Leonard
- 2005.08.11: It’s funny cuz it’s true...
- 2005.08.11: Geek/Dork/Nerd: march-of-the-penguins edition
- 2005.08.08: Science as metaphor
- 2005.08.06: The class of Nuke 'Em High
- 2005.08.05: Friday catblogging: Nemo and Nuala
- 2005.08.05: Doctor Who: fashion icon
- 2005.08.04: Geek/Dork/Nerd: dynamic duo edition
- 2005.08.04: The scientific method goes Hollywood
- 2005.08.03: Risk aversion is too big a risk
- 2005.08.02: The shape of things to come
- 2005.08.02: Beamjacks in space
- 2005.08.01: No, really, the Times hates you
- 2005.07.31: And they wonder why we’re not reading...
- 2005.07.29: What's your high-school stereotype?
- 2005.07.29: Friday birdblogging: Snowbird and Celery
- 2005.07.29: To blog or not to blog...
- 2005.07.29: These kids today...
- 2005.07.28: Geek/Dork/Nerd: "Watson, come here, I want you" edition
- 2005.07.28: The power of one little -- okay, big -- Web site
- 2005.07.28: Xer Icon: John Cusack
- 2005.07.26: Early-adopter burnout
- 2005.07.26: Nerds make better hotties, too
- 2005.07.23: Mad libs in the age of terrorism
- 2005.07.23: Cup of T
- 2005.07.22: Friday catblogging: Cassie in repose
- 2005.07.21: Geek/Dork/Nerd: I, robot edition
- 2005.07.21: Imitation, flattering and otherwise
- 2005.07.20: Hip to be square
- 2005.07.20: Beamed up for the last time
- 2005.07.20: Where snark meets media criticism
- 2005.07.20: To early-adopt, or not to early-adopt...
- 2005.07.19: I'd buy that for a dollar!
- 2005.07.19: Blog-o-fascism
- 2005.07.19: On the beach
- 2005.07.17: Blogging for dollars
- 2005.07.16: Sci-fi sneaks in under the literary radar
- 2005.07.15: Friday catblogging: lazy Sam
- 2005.07.15: Xer Icon: Johnny Depp
- 2005.07.14: Geek/Dork/Nerd: castaway edition
- 2005.07.13: Shuttle up... not
- 2005.07.13: Conversations with geeks: John Kenneth Muir
- 2005.07.12: Triumph of the nerds
- 2005.07.11: "B Movies Invade Your TV!"
- 2005.07.08: Friday cat blogging: queen of the AV mountain
- 2005.07.08: My finger on the pulse of The Times...
- 2005.07.08: Will this be on the test?
- 2005.07.08: Master of my domain
- 2005.07.07: The evolution of disaster reporting
- 2005.07.07: Geek/Dork/Nerd: The X-Files edition
- 2005.07.06: Buddy, can you spare a camcorder?
- 2005.07.06: Gold in them thar games
- 2005.07.05: Blogging for dollars
- 2005.07.05: Got wood?
- 2005.07.04: In the Zone
- 2005.07.04: Xers of their time: The American Revolution
- 2005.07.03: Xers hit 40 (though it may be old news)
- 2005.07.03: Xer Icon: Anthony Michael Hall
- 2005.07.03: Talkin’ ’bout my generation
- 2005.07.01: You know politics have gone geeky...
- 2005.07.01: Friday birdblogging: Celery and Snowbird
- 2005.07.01: Yeah, but do they serve drinks?
- 2005.06.30: Comic chameleon
- 2005.06.30: Xer Icon: Tom Cruise
- 2005.06.30: Geek/Dork/Nerd: alien-invasion edition
- 2005.06.29: The Martian chronicles...
- 2005.06.28: Ice, ice, baby
- 2005.06.28: Bookshop of dreams
- 2005.06.28: I was a teenaged werewolf blogger
- 2005.06.28: Isabel Allende is a geek
- 2005.06.26: Spam: canary in the cultural coal mine
- 2005.06.25: Nerds make better lovers?
- 2005.06.24: Friday catblogging: Cassie, dark and mysterious
- 2005.06.24: How ’bout them zombie rabbits, George?
- 2005.06.23: The list is life... the life of our info-society, anyway
- 2005.06.23: Geek/Dork/Nerd: my-geek-the-car edition
- 2005.06.22: Touchstones: try this at home, video-game edition
- 2005.06.21: Bats to billionaires...
- 2005.06.21: I am Jack’s stunned surprise
- 2005.06.20: Share the love
- 2005.06.18: Oh my god, it's real?!
- 2005.06.17: Friday catblogging: meet Sammy
- 2005.06.16: Geek/Dork/Nerd: Caped Crusader edition
- 2005.06.15: They like us... they really like us!
- 2005.06.14: Xer Icon: Christian Bale
- 2005.06.14: Batman: the man, the myth, the movie
- 2005.06.13: Touchstones: the politics of despair
- 2005.06.12: I find your lack of faith refreshing...
- 2005.06.12: Geeks in action
- 2005.06.12: Low-tech nostalgia goes high tech
- 2005.06.11: Austen powers
- 2005.06.10: Friday catblogging: introducing Mrs. Kennedy
- 2005.06.09: Geek/Dork/Nerd: The Simpsons edition
- 2005.06.08: Revenge of the shill
- 2005.06.08: Chariots of Nike
- 2005.06.07: Ghetto of geeks
- 2005.06.06: Touchstones: the politics of cynicism
- 2005.06.05: Good news from Mars
- 2005.06.03: The selfish meme
- 2005.06.02: Geek/Dork/Nerd: Sith edition
- 2005.06.02: Geek, dork, or nerd?
- 2005.06.01: What is geek philosophy?
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