I hope and dream someday to create something as intricate, beautiful and pointless as Marble Machine 2.

—and no, I’m still not thinking of having children—

This guy is nuts.

I’ve decided I’m only going to have one track by any one artist on my ipod. Which means I need to identify the best single track by about 10,000 bands. This is where I host the list and ask for advice.

Maulavi Ghaffar, detained at Gitmo for eight months, was killed in Afghanistan Saturday after returning to fight for the Taliban.

Officials in Afghanistan and the United States have indicated in the past that at least five Afghan detainees released from Guantánamo had returned to Afghanistan and again become Taliban commanders or fighters.