New York made same-sex marriage legal last night. They’re the sixth state to take that step, and the largest so far. What are the rest of us waiting for?
Take a rubber tree plant and hook it up to a self-watering mechanism calibrated to the price of Home Depot’s stick price and you get Spore 1.1, a study in frustrating the empathic impulse.
Nice piece on the death penalty by Ta-Nehisi Coates in the NY Times last week.
Self-driving cars are now legal in Nevada. I can’t wait for this to go national. People are too easily distracted to be allowed to drive themselves.
For people older than me, he’ll always be Columbo, but for me, he’ll always be Fred Savage’s grandfather from The Princess Bride, the guy who says “yes, you’re very smart. Shaddap.” Peter Falk is dead at 83.
Here’s an app that lets you surreptitiously record your dealings with the police. Oh, and it’s illegal to use in a handful of states.
