A life in words

  • Why…

    …are eBooks embracing DRM while online music stores are abandoning it? What’s the difference aside from a couple of megabytes?

  • Dubious Honor, But See The Show!

    Well, I’m not quite sure what it says about my not-quite-nascent acting career (they said I was good at “vacant”), but I’ve been cast to play the title role (at least, a role from part of the title) in Waiting for Godot Baggins at tomorrow night’s Bad Play Project. There will be minimal, if any,…

  • Now I Have No Excuse

    Here’s a list of the highly varied recommendations I received in response to my last post: Sufjan Stevens—Come on Feel the Illinois Regina Spektor Nickel Creek: This Side Keane Reik Colplay: X&Y and Viva La Vida Explosions in the Sky Travis Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog (sans Mr. Hammer) Avatar soundtrack Chopin “Military Suite in…

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883