Archive for November, 2006

Sleeping, waking, and drugs

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

There's a ton of great research being done on wakefulness and sleeping drugs - it's so far beyond GABA and amphetamines now that it's ridiculous. Check out this nifty overview from the New Scientist if you're interested.

Utility approaches infinity

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Since I'm all into comics and whatnot at the moment, I've run into my fair share of ongoing series that have an involved backstory/continuity that really needs to be understood in order to get the full benefit of reading current issues (100 Bullets, anyone?). Enter the Comic Book Series Wiki. It's ...

National Book Awards

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

The National Book Awards were presented last night - I haven't read many of the finalists this year (and none of the winners), but I do want to point out Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese. It's the first graphic novel ever to make it that far, and it's fantastic ...

Woohoo!

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Democratic takeover FTW!

Vote!

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

(for Americans only) Today's the day to exercise your right and responsibility as a citizen - get out there and vote!