The double helix is much too simple to be the secret of life.

The interstates changed the phenomenology of driving.

"You will have succeeded when you become really hard to manage."

Escape bird flu; visit the moons of Jupiter, or get your own moon.

Visualize open networks. Of text.

I had one little side room we called "the pi room," because on its walls were 53,000 digits of pi, done in pale green on black, a "Matrix" homage.

Crowd farming is people!

Behold, the all-seeing super-eye.

"The eventual goal is to have elaborate video surveillance well in advance of the 2016 Olympics."

TSA officials say the behavior-detection officers may play a more important role in thwarting terrorist attacks than traditional screening techniques.

I thought I saw the warm-vomit look in his eyes.

What society needs now are new ways to forget.

What are your Big Things?

Atlanta is hosed.

Coding is the New Maneuver.

Steven Colbert, the Man in the Irony Mask, has a new book.