I got an e-mail from Ethan after linking to his NYT article about "Urban Tribes" a few weeks ago. There's a whole site about the subject, at Urban Tribes of the Never-Marrieds by Ethan Watters, and there will be a book next year. I'll have to look at it more sometime...

Kieriahn's Farscape Starcharts
has a good summary of Farscape news. Since I'm almost completely caught up with all of the existing episodes on Sci-Fi four-times-a-week repeats, now I need to know when brand new episodes come out.

And if you haven't seen this show, they'll be starting over from the beginning of the series in about two weeks or so, and I strongly recommend it -- it's my favorite "new" (to me) show of the year.

Salon.com Technology | The strange saga of Yahoo and WebRing
I think this is an interesting story -- because it's one of those cases where Yahoo!, a site I frequently use, really messed up, and why. (

This is Brilliant

Monsters, Inc., Inc. - Pixar's quiet disdain for children. By David Samuels
I loved Monsters, Inc, but this is a really, really interesting (and disturbing) article from a different point of view...

A ‘Ring’ to Rule the Screen
Anyone else think this movie is going to be huge?

PVP goes to the village
from the classic TV series The Prisoner, of course...

heh.