I'm currently reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I heard an interview with the author on NPR and, intrigued, I decided to borrow the book from the library. I'm really enjoying it and getting through it quickly, unlike with Crime and Punishment, which I had to...

I find the Somerville Gates rather endearing. I'm glad that there are people out there who can be so earnest about humor. (The original site no longer has photos of the installation, but you can still Google the site and look at the cache.) Filed in: Oddities Art...

Saw Hotel Rwanda this past weekend, a powerful disturbing movie. It seems of relevance then that Nicholas D. Kristof would come out with an op-ed today in the New York Times discussing the genocide in Sudan. Filed in: Movies Politics...

Noticed some articles on unusual people in Sunday's New York Times: One article profiled a man who is walking across America for the second time. I've thought about walking across America before, but I haven't even driven across most of it. Maybe one day, after I've accumulated enough disposable income, I...

Some big news this week that I neglected to write about earlier: Israelis and Palestinians declared a ceasefire. North Korea declared that it has nuclear weapons. Today my editing teacher gave us a quiz on the location of all the countries in Africa. I don't remember ever studying Africa's geography, so preparing for...