8 January 2007: Evening

Except for brief moments of duress, I haven't touched a keyboard for years. No fingers were tortured in producing these words--or the last half a million words of my published fiction. Novelist Richard Powers talks to his computer.

Artist Carson Ellis breaks down and gets a blog; some previously unreleased work has been posted--more is promised.

New South Wales now requires a permit for fake guns; "replica firearm" border control to be stepped up.

Get your thoughts in order with A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.

Must-see: Use those new skills to visualize zip codes.

The early portfolios of photographer William Eggleston, sometime Big Star pianist.

Florida is storing ice cubes at a cost of $900,000 per month, but will they expire before anyone buys them?

If you have any spare pesos, though, you might want to spend them on pizza in Texas.

Consumer-friendly Taser to be introduced.

Don't worry, the world's most beautiful woman doesn't know who you are, either.

Roman Polanski: "While parking the car, he'd managed to run over Dr. Saperstein, our dog, named after the character in Rosemary's Baby."