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World Trade Center Literary and Cultural Reflections (first posted September 11, 2001)

9 years ago

Not knowing what else to do, in the numb hours after the towers fell, I made a web page that…

Facebook’s Censorship Problem Is What Happens When a Tech Company Controls the News

9 years ago

Facebook makes editorial decisions that affect its presentation of news through its "news" (?) feed. But Facebook is in the…

That’s what’s been bothering me since yesterday’s #AirPod reveal. #manamana

9 years ago

Number of times one of my $9.99 headphones fell out of my ears while I was mowing the lawn this…

The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM

9 years ago

When you plug an audio cable into a smartphone, it just works. It doesn’t matter whether the headphones were made…

Why Are Babies So Dumb If Humans Are So Smart?

9 years ago

Fascinating theory. The hard work of raising helpless babies is part of the natural selection process that made us as…

Breakfast Battle from “The Miracle Worker” (Pamela Lee as Annie Sullivan and Carolyn Jerz as Helen Keller)

9 years ago

Update: Here's a clip of the whole breakfast scene (recorded during a performance). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMBhI2ShYhQ A few weeks ago, my 14yo…

BREAKING: All ITT Campuses Will Close

9 years ago

All ITT Tech campuses will be shut down, its parent company announced today. -- Inside Higher Ed

Crowther’s Adventure: Tough Memes to Squash

9 years ago

Will Crowther, an RPG-er, created the first text-based adventure game for computers Colossal Cave Adventure in 1975.6 When Don Woods…

Woah there, online tech site. Let’s not set that bar too high, now.

9 years ago

I just saw the following clickbait for an ongoing non-story in the technology world: "All the latest speculation about [topic…