Scott Aaronson, at Shtetl-Optimized, blogs:
To those of us who can’t tell a hypotenuse from a rhombus, the phrase “math journalism” sounds like an oxymoron. It brings to mind boring pedants like Martin Gardner, Sara Robinson, and Brian Hayes….
Thanks, Scott! Can I get that on a teeshirt?

Dear Readers,
You may have noticed something weird in these pages over the past few days. When you roll your mouse cursor over a link to an external web page, a thumbnail preview of the page pops up like a thought balloon. For example, try it with This Link. If any of you have strong opinions […]

Whether or not anyone else is reading the stuff I’m posting here, the spammers have discovered me. And I’m afraid that “comment spam” is not as amusing as the e-mail variety. I have therefore installed one of those annoying sentry programs that will ask for the answer to a trivial question before allowing you to […]

I want to thank those of my friends who sent me links to Jenn Shreve’s amusing collection of bloggers’ “haven’t posted in awhile” excuses and apologies. What has kept me away all this time is the search for an adequate excuse.
Thanks, too, to those of my friends who didn’t send me the links.

Scribble, scribble, scribble. As if the world didn’t get enough of my writing already, with a bimonthly column in American Scientist, now I’m equipped to publish my every thought on a momen’t notice.
The bit-player weblog will cover much the same territory as the Computing Science column in American Scientist, but with greater frequency and with […]