Welcome to the future

It all began at a conference. A keynote speaker had just finished her address. Microphones awaited comments and questions. A woman walked up to a microphone, iPhone in hand, and stated that during the talk she had been checking her e-mail and wanted to share with the audience some information she had just received related, tangentially, to the theme of the keynote address, to which she had not paid much attention.

Thanx to Laurie Essig on Chronicle

Schadenfreude

Charlie Stross watches the Catholic Church being "dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century."

Violating Our Principles

The libertarian view of rape