2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Exasperating Masterpiece

7 years ago

Posting this mostly to prove that I can remain rational even when I encounter criticism of classic Star Trek, which…

The Post-Coding Generation?

7 years ago

I knew the command line well, and very occasionally delved to snoop around at the level of machine code. My…

I am shocked — SHOCKED — to find that TV journalism is scripted, shallow eye candy.

7 years ago

Don't trust the scary bad interweb. Do trust us, your local TV talking heads, who will do all the scary…

What’s an environmental issue? — Gus Speth

7 years ago

I don't know the provenance of this quote attributed to Gus Speth, which affirms the role of the humanities in…

In education, Apple must augment the reality of the cheap notebook

7 years ago

In 2012, Apple tried to position iPads as replacing textbooks. Last year, Microsoft tried to position laptops as replacing Chromebooks.…

My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data

7 years ago

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is drawing attention to malicious data thieves and brokers. But every Facebook app—even the dumb, innocent…

Bye Facebook, hello Instagram: Users make beeline for Facebook-owned social network

7 years ago

Instagram dialed in early to the power of building community through visual communication. From the start, Instagram was a mobile…

Covfefe chaos: What Trump’s typos say about his administration

7 years ago

Misspelled tweets and typos in press releases are becoming the norm under President Trump, but critics say it points to…

Text Wrangler Discontinued (Free Mac Text Editor)

7 years ago

I still miss Notepad++, a Windows tool on which I coded many an Inform 6 puzzle. When Seton Hill started…

The Irreversible Damage of Mark Zuckerberg’s Silence

7 years ago

Wired, obviously having worked on a thinkpiece about Zuckerberg's silence, manages to repurpose it in light of this afternoon's statement.…