A longer-than-usual introduction to a reading assignment in my "Media and Culture" class turned into a useful opportunity to reflect.…
When the Kindle contract for one of the country’s largest book distributors, the Independent Publishers Group, came up for renewal,…
Useless code and comments in code—these are the zombie figures of software. They serve no purpose in a program’s execution,…
There are of course emotional consequences for becoming married. Lines 1167-1172: if( age >= 0.85 ) { dieSpouse(); } if(…
The most detail I've ever seen about Will Crowther's other creative projects; here, in a conversation dated 1996, he discusses…
If political powerbrokers want to buy newspapers, what are the obligations of the journalists involved? What if the journalists, as…
A good example of correlation. (Simply changing your Facebook content won't automatically make you a better worker or student, but…
At midnight tonight, participants in the FIRST Robotics Competition must stop working on their robots and seal them up in…