Ah, Internets

I've been lamenting for a while that my life no longer has the long quasi-philosophical conversations that run late into the night as friends and I try to discuss something about the nature of the world. This is still true, and anyone who would like to (and can) hang out in person for late-night discussions should let me know. There's really no substitute for in-person conversation.

Meanwhile, however, I'm enjoying a brief discussion brought on by a post of Chris's, and encourage anyone with thoughts on it to comment here.

yaoobruni and outsidetheparty pointed me to this Polish bhangra ragga video which a third of you have already seen but another third of you really need to. (If you are in the third third, just ignore this paragraph.)

The trees are turning. It's fall in the Berkshires, as well as in my column.

And finally, does anyone else with a website get those "Please add your website to our free directory" emails? Are they just spam I should throw away, or is there some infinitessimal (but free!) marketing advantage to be gained by doing what they say?