The question is, when is an upgrade really an upgrade?

Quoted: Tens of thousands of federal workers are prohibited from upgrading to the latest versions, according to memos seen by <i>InformationWeek</i>.

Videos of amateur covers of the Super Mario Brothers theme song

Need to fold a paper d40 before the gamers show up? Have a hankering for a stellated cuboctahedron ornament for the Christmas tree?

a shadowy group of knitters, draping parking meters, lampposts, car antennas, and door knobs with custom knit sweaters in the dead of night.

You Don't Know Jack, now in daily web format

why DVD+R is better than DVD-R, the brand to look for, the site to buy from, and other facts and opinions about optical backup media.

Quoted: Ad Terras Per Aspera: Transmissions from the Little Blue Marble

SPOILER ALERT - the hints for the Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure, as printed in the Invisi-Clues hint book. This had some of the cleverest, and some of the least fair puzzles in adventures that I've played.

Borges' "List of Animals" - which reads to me as a scathing debunking of the notion that things can be meaningfully categorized into a hierarchy of types.

I think Borges would be happy with the notion of tags; his 14 categories could usefully be possible characteristics of animals, but without the notion that these 14 categories exhaust the space of animals, and without the notion that an animal could not be in more than one (perhaps all?) of the categories at once.