ABC's fall show Pan Am cuts smoking, alters racism to vie for 1960s nostalgia market. Is this selective clean-up a recipe for mediocrity? [Continue]

Life on Mars was a re-working of the hit BBC series of the same name. I thought it creative, unique, challenging - until the last 15 minutes of the series finale. In a heavy-handed act of juvenile storytelling, the creators managed to pull the rug [Continue]

Searching for feed reader reviews, I find an opinion poll about what's the "best" reader. This is silliness. "Best" is subjective, and to get a valid recommendation we need to define our needs and criteria for meeting them. [Continue]

For the last 5 years or so, used book sellers online, from amazon to alibris and beyond, have been jacking up their postage rates for used books. This year the fad at abebooks.com (the vast and sprawling association of independent booksellers’ [Continue]