Idle Words
: Posts by Topic
Travel
A Morning in Iceland
[Nov 03] - aurorae and hot springs
Utrecht
- introduction to Sinterklaas
Rotterdam
Haarlem
- hometown of my hero Frans Hals
Lille
A Voyage Down The Gowanus
- New York's hardest-working scenic waterway
Warsaw
- about my hometown
Bukowina TatrzaĆska
The Three Gorges
A voyage down the Yangtze
It's Always Christmas in Wuhan
Chongqing
Space
A Rocket to Nowhere
- thoughts on the Shuttle program
Meanwhile Back in Space
- on the new Vision for Space Exploration
Comet Impact Extravaganza
- Nice simulations
Great Events
New York City Marathon
- Bleeding nipples, P Diddy
Poland Joins the EU
- Report from the party
Elephants Invade Manhattan
Attacked by Thugs
- my adventures with the Warsaw police
Wolfram Speaks
- Crazy genius at O'Reilly Bioinformatics conference
Addison County Fair and Field Days
- encounters with pork and other livestock
Orthodox Easter
- celebrating with a van load of foreigners
PC Forum
- the joys of reading Bruce Schneier's email
Canada
The Bay of Fundy
Halifax
Sneaky Canada
Canadian Beefcake
- legendary Quebecois strongman Louis Cyr
Quirky Canada Has Own Currency, Laws
Canada Day
I Cannot Speak Your Crazy Moon Language
The Few Things I Won't Miss About Montreal
Internet and Computers
The Ghost Blogs of Tibet
- GeoURL and the dangers of user-generated metadata
Celebrity Turing Test
- A rock star tries to visit his own skeptical fan site
Art and Literature
The Golden Calf
- a translation of Ilf and Petrov's masterpiece
Little Tragedies
- metadata, annotation and Pushkin
Your Literary Masterpiece was Delicious
- teaching computers to read Russian literature
The Chemistry of Art
- on synthetic pigments and art history
oiloncanvas.net
- my day job
Rants
French vs. American School Lunches
Dabblers and Blowhards
- why Paul Graham is a weenis
Dating Without Kundera
- seducing with better authors
An Audioblogging Manifesto
- calling it podcasting won't make it right
100 Years of Turbulence
- on the history of aviation and the uselessness of patents
Dave Winer Considered Harmful
- Run! Bipolar bear!
The Unbearable Thinness of Crust
- in search of the best pizza in New York
Best Practices for Time Travelers
- the true story of John Titor, visitor from the future