Bagatelles

• Here’s the millennial ode that aired on “Fresh Air,” December 20, 1999.

• I have also done occasional verses for Industry Standard on new-economical topics like the DoubleClick cookie scandal, the Microsoft trial, the ubiquity of wireless, and dot-com Schadenfreude.

• Here’s a timeline on the history of information that I prepared for the Encyclopedia Britannica with Daniel Brownstein

• A collection of observations about language from my commonplace file, such as the following:

Mrs. Cadwallader said privately, “You will certainly go mad in that house alone, my dear.  You will see visions.  We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them.  Middlemarch, Ch. LIV

I was also interviewed on The Colbert Report in 2006.