Uneasy Rhetoric

In a recent post on Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin talks about the fact that the military is using blimps to help pinpoint targets on the ground. Apparently, these aerostats, “worked so well at detecting and identifying enemy forces and objects that Defense Department officials want to buy more of them” (from a Federal Computer [...]

Downtown Déjeuner:
J’s Café ***1/2
1004 J Street
$7-$9
Atkin’s dieters beware — what you get here requires two pieces of bread and fat, beefsteak fries with lots of ketchup and salt.
From the outside, J’s looks like a seedy little dive with less-than appropriate hygiene. Come to think of it, so do most of the restaurants on J [...]

Deconstruction icon Derrida dies. (BBC)
The father of literary uncertainty, the cause of frustration, anger, and militance among so many literary critics, has met the one part of the text for which all meaning becomes ultimately meaningless: the end.
Update: This excellent thread at MemeFirst, ironically pays respect to Derrida and his “philosophies” through some satire and [...]

In Sacramento summer stubbornly lingers through October, but already we can feel the slow descent into autumn as the leaves whither and fall, the air cools, the days get shorter, and the sense of impending fog and rain grows.
So in honor of this most mellow and reflective of seasons, I thought I should link [...]