Brian Gongol
- Look! A computer-science professor named Susan Stepney is possibly more comprehensive in her personal site than I am! (3.25.2002)
- In Chicago, one of America's most ethnically segregated cities, the politics of nationality still have a role. By the way, Maxim is playing an April Fool's Joke on Chicago and other cities by naming each the city of the year -- for the editions distributed in and around those cities. (3.24.2002)
- In delayed reaction to the all-important St. Patrick's Day, a primer on Ireland. (3.20.2002)
- The Cane Masters seem to be taking the Latin omnia mea mecum porto ("I carry all my things with me") just a step too far. I'll stick by Tae Kwon-Do. (3.18.2002)
- Professor Steve Mann of the University of Toronto lives as a cyborg. That's a problem when airport security personnel ask you to turn your laptop on and off. His digital account gives new meaning to first-person reporting. (3.15.2002)
- So if a telemarketer runs for Nebraska governor, how many calls do you think voters will get on primary day? Maybe Miss Cleo can help. Oops! She's from Southern California, not Jamaica! Guess she confused "stoned" with "psychic." (3.15.2002)
- Letterman's staying put, the Green Berets are hiring, and those flashing lights on your modem could be leaking your info. (3.12.2002)
- The story of the woman who hit a homeless man and drove home with him stuck in the windshield is positively beyond comprehension. (3.8.2002)
- See the police report on a man with a .532 BAC. (3.8.2002)
- When the going gets tough, the survivors let bad commercials on the air. But as long as the VOA is still on the air, we'll still be fighting for capitalism. (3.6.2002)
- Don't put up a stupid weblog. (3.4.2002)
- I never, ever thought that PBS would someday list me as a source. (3.3.2002)
- Spam is a pain, but what about getting an infinitely-looped spam? (3.2.2002)
- Think there's life outside our planet? Spend some time tinkering with the Drake Equation and figure out just what those chances are. The folks at Princeton may be a few steps ahead of you in finding hard data on the existence of other planets. (3.2.2002)
- It's a day for secrets to be revealed: Secret bunkers house a "shadow" government and nuclear fallout may have been more widespread than once believed. (3.1.2002)
- If Letterman goes to ABC and bumps out Nightline, it'll be clear that Mickey Mouse really is running ABC. (3.1.2002)
- American women are having the highest fertility rate in 30 years. And the red planet may be more fertile (or at least hydrated) than we previously thought. And to treat all this new life? A revised Hippocratic Oath. (3.1.2002)
- The latest Nixon tapes to be released show Nixon thought about using the bomb on Vietnam. In contemporary warfare, combatants just send toxic packages to the British Prime Minister. (3.1.2002)