We just keep thinking we can do it all -- be focused, frightened and frivolous. We can't. We don't have the money. We don't have the time.

How do you screen for a relentless mind-set?

Use it to find the photography you like using the simple idea that people whose work you like, probably like stuff you'll like.

Over time, YouTube says it plans to rely more heavily on personalization and ties between users to refine recommendations.

The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an overreaction. Its real aim is not to kill the hundreds of people directly targeted but to sow fear in the rest of the population. Terrorism is an unusual military tactic in that it depends on the response of the onlookers. If we are not terrorized, then the attack didn't work. Alas, this one worked very well.

That's what offends me. You know exactly what you're doing.

First Person Tetris

When the default is private, you have to think about making something public. When the default is public, you become very aware of privacy. And thus, I would suspect, people are more conscious of privacy now than ever.

I expected Google Chrome to teleport maybe three, maximum five goats! What happens instead? About 3*10^6 goats get teleported! I won't be able to pay for teleportation of such huge amount of goats!

The one thing that Mr. Durant worries might spook a female guest is his most recent purchase: a three-foot-tall refrigerated meat locker that sits in a corner of his living room. That is where he keeps his organ meat and deer ribs.

Analysts must absorb information with the thoroughness of historians, organize it with the skill of librarians, and disseminate it with the zeal of a journalist. Sufficient knowledge will not come from slides with little more text than a comic strip.

The effects of a childhood goat trauma vary widely from person to person, depending on the severity of their trauma. Such problems as irrational fears, unexplained twitching, and insomnia could all have origin in a goat trauma. The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation is here to help anyone who has suffered a traumatic run-in with goats.

In virtually every realm of our transaction-obsessed society, the message is that enduring relationships count for less than the value put on assets for sale.

You jest; but clowns can speak in truth. My reeling thoughts yearn for such simple counsel.

So that's what's sad about not eating. The loss of dining, not the loss of food. It may be personal, but for, unless I'm alone, it doesn't involve dinner if it doesn't involve talking. The food and drink I can do without easily. The jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments and shared memories I miss. Sentences beginning with the words, "Remember that time?" I ran in crowds where anyone was likely to break out in a poetry recitation at any time. Me too. But not me anymore. So yes, it's sad. Maybe that's why I enjoy this blog. You don't realize it, but we're at dinner right now.

The act of publishing on Twitter is so friction-free -- a few keystrokes and hit send -- that you can forget that others are out there listening.