Garrison Keeler did a nice reading from “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” on his radio show this morning in honor of Walt Whitman‘s birthday. You can read the full text of the poem (or one of several others) at RPO.

Atlanta, Georgia is getting an IKEA on June 29. Google Maps claims that’s seven hours from where I live, but I think it’s closer to six. That’s still a bit long for a Sunday drive, but it’s still workable on a long weekend.

By author, by title, by first line, by date, or at random. No popups or other nonsense. It’s called Representative Poetry Online (RPO), and it’s from the University of Toronto.

As part of (what I see as) the overall trend away from rationalism and clear thinking in America, “intelligent design” arguments are becoming more and more common. But repeating a sophism over and over doesn’t make it any more true. So here are a few critiques, should you need them: H. Allen Orr’s Devolution (warning: [...]

If you use sf.net to host any web projects, then you probably know that their statistics engine has been down for a revamp since mid-January of this year. In that time, I’ve released a new version of wB and have also added two fine developers and done a great deal of development toward our 1.0 [...]