Gossip gives all the pleasures of censoriousness without any of the responsibilities of virtue....

I love spontaneously busting a groove under the spiraling lights illuminating Cambridge Town Hall. Oh, and reading my poetry at CtK was good too :)...

In theory: an elegant language for describing how web pages should look. Everyone's favorite way to Separate Semantics from Presentation TM. In practice: a giant hassle. A torture device for the graphically inclined. The gateway to bland fonts, boxy layouts, and browser quirks galore. The source of endless tedium that pleases no one but web standards geeks who like to show their superiority over everyone else. The Web will not be a mature graphical medium until it has its own InDesign....

Are Constitutional rights and Locke's "natural rights" one and the same? Are you certain that the framers of the Constitution got it right based on empirical grounds or do you simply accept that as a presupposition of your system? Do the differences between an 18th-century agrarian economy and a 21st-century post-industrial economy have any bearing on how the political order should be run?...

"Those Who Want Out" In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars are fast - walking's for children, except in rooms. When they take longer trips, they think with contempt of the jet's archaic slowness. Monastic in dedication to work, they apply honed skills, impatient of less than perfection. They sleep by day when the bustle of lives might disturb their research, and labor beneath flourescent light in controlled environments fitting their needs, as the dialects in which they converse, with each other or with the machines (which are not called machines) are controlled and fitting. The air they breathe is conditioned. Coffee and coke keep them alert. But no one can say they don't dream, that they have no vision. Their vision consumes them, they think all the time of the city in space, they long for the permanent colony, not just a lab up there, the whole...