The always-sharp P.J. Doland has one of those five-dollar-bill-on-the-sidewalk ideas that, once you’ve read it, seems so naturally sensible that you almost can’t believe it hasn’t already been implemented: The Not Safe for Work HTML attribute. The idea is that coders adopt, and browser makers begin to recognize, a “nswf” tag that can be applied […]

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This article hits a note that’s been ringing in my head over the holiday weekend as, being gripped by suburban nostalgia, I’ve found myself flipping through the MySpace pages of old friends and relatives. Maybe it’s because I’m unusually privacy conscious, or maybe it’s just because (as a onetime BBS sysop and Internet early adopter) […]

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Now this is just a supremely cool idea: A nonprofit called Kiva is making microlending twice as micro by allowing individuals anywhere on earth to pledge amounts as low as $25 to be collated into loans to small entrepreneurs in the developing world. An intriguing next step would be a totally open-source approach to microfinance, […]

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That’s how the Daily Show host describes himself in response to Bill Kristol’s calling him an “Upper West Side liberal.” Note also that Stewart pushes the idea that neoconservatism exhibits the worst tendencies of utopian liberalism—a notion I’ll choose to believe, against all odds, he cribbed from me.

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About 20 minutes ago, I was sitting up in my room doing some reading, when down in the kitchen there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Not, alas, Santa, but some prospective burglar in a green coat who’d apparently managed to loudly knock over my housemate’s […]

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Via Marginal Revolution, I see I ought to be wishing everyone a happy Global Orgasm Day. Be sure to do your part for world peace before the day is out.

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Via Brad deLong, this speech by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is pretty amazing: In the past, they said: “Under no circumstances will we accept a state, unless it includes all of Palestine, because Palestine is a land of Islamic endowment.” Fine. This doesn’t work. I can say: “We demand all of the land,” and you […]

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A new spurt of commentary on the proposed alliance has erupted, much of it prompted by Jon Chait’s dismissive response to Brink Lindsey’s original essay. Brink himself hits back at The New Republic, as does his colleague David Boaz at Cato at Liberty. At The Corner there are reactions from Jonah Goldberg (who also has […]

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The next generation of moral panics will consist of declining elites attempting to convince the great mass of citizens to be terrified by their own burgeoning capacity to drive cultural innovation.

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I was among those cheered by the departure of Donald Rumsfeld, but

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