How not to do patent prosecution

This has been making the rounds at the office today.

MIT shooting

Shooting at MIT, right outside of my old lab.  They haven't caught the shooter yet.  Campus is on lockdown.  What is going on this week??

Parents take worse care of ugly children

This study seems highly suspect to me.

Why Thai Girls Are Better

I'm glad that most of these men (the author of the article and the commenters) live far, far away in Thailand.

Pink and blue projects

JeongMee Yoon photographs kids with their pink and blue possessions.

Help the wealthy

This comic is awesome. (Scroll down a little.)

Reasons My Son Is Crying

Maybe I only find this hilarious because I am not a parent.

Get your M.R.S.

I love both this letter to the editor of the Daily Princetonian and this hilarious response from Above the Law.

Jane Austen

Article on the novels of Jane Austen. The part I found most interesting was the suggestion at the beginning that the reason Persuasion has a different tone and less subtle characterization than her other books is that she didn't have time to finish it before she died. There' s a quote from Virginia Woolf (on a different, unfinished work of Austen's): '"the stiffness and bareness of the first chapters" suggest that "she was one of those writers who lay their facts out rather baldly in the first version and then go back and back and back and cover them with flesh and atmosphere."'

In Support of Creativity

Rainy cafe machine.