Month: March 2009

  • Phone blogging

    Is way too hard. But results in interesting t9 errors, like clogging instead of blogging.

  • User Hostile UI

    I don’t really like Facebook, but I have to use it because that’s where my friends are. (Well, my fiancée is there, and she makes my friends for me. So I use it. Begrudgingly.) At first what I didn’t like about Facebook was that it is a thinly veilled CIA front, and even if that…

  • The Gopher-verse, averted

    This is insane. At the time the web came into being, AOL was already offering a content-driven text and graphics medium. And Microsoft was hard at work making “Blackbird”, which was a content authoring technology for MSN that never saw the light of day because of HTML. Microsoft ditched it and launched MSN over PPP…

  • Losing Faith

    NPR’s Planet Money (which I have been known to describe — without hyperbole — as “the best journalism on any topic in any media, in the entire existence of journalism”) published an interesting blog posting. A reporter goes to the Treasury Department to find out that the US government is going to lend billions of…

  • Vanity Fair on Iceland

    I became aware of Iceland’s bankruptcy through a curious route. A local geek mailing list had a posting from a friend of one of the guys on the list. She was Icelandic, and she was really in distress — able to understand how serious the situation was, unable to understand it at the same time,…

  • Twin Peaks

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    This is the scariest evidence yet that this recession is not a normal one: This was brought to my attention by an excellent This American Life episode. The conclusion of Alex and Adam’s story at the top of the program is chilling… there’s several ways to read the tea leaves, and none of them are…