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Haircuts and Popsicles

I like haircuts and I like Popsicles -- hell, who doesn't? But I will apparently never be an art impresario, let alone a performance art impresario, because it never would have occurred to me to combi...
Refutation of a children's book

I admire Sheila C. Bair, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, more than any other official in government. Ms. Bair's actions during the financial meltdown in 2008 and in interven...
Hallucinogen to be tested as cure for opiate addiction

Ibogaine, a hallucinogen derived from an African plant, is used (illegally) as a cure for opiate addiction. This month, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research will test the effecti...
MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands!

MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue, we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty see-th...
Hard Russian hardware

Russian manufacturer Lenpolygrafmash makes the computer component equivalent of brutalist architecture. According to the Russian culture blog Metkere.com, the devices such as the printer and scanner a...

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How to swear in English if you're Korean

You wouldn't think a Korean man teaching his class how to swear in English would be so funny. I love his mannerisms when he says the swears in English; he channels Goodfellas-era Joe Pesci a little...
Americans don't know how to die

Atul Gawande's articles on healthcare for the New Yorker are all top-shelf, but his most recent piece on modern medicine's difficulty in dealing with patients who are likely to die is a doozy and a mu...
Reading up on the future of books

Over on Twitter, Tim Carmody is burning it up with links and retweets, mainly about the Kindle, Amazon, Google, Apple, and the future of books and media. Lots of good stuff there. Tags: books &nb...
Christopher Nolan's Implementation

What if Dom Cobb and his team from Inception were management consultants instead of dream extractors? This: DiCaprio takes a helicopter to Wharton, where he meets his father. "Who's your best student...
Slow motion lightning strike

A lightning strike recorded at 9000 frames per second. The action across time scales displayed in this video is amazing. One strike hovers in the frame almost the entire time while other hundreds o...

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Confession #74: The Web’s Five Most Endangered Words

The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are: Let me think about that. Shirley Sherrod, the former rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia found that ou...
Confession #73: Dude, I’m Totally Wasted on the Internet

I should open by admitting that I’m probably pretty wasted right now. I just took my headphones off after spending the past fifteen minutes listening to some of the droning music that is being h...
Confession #72: I’m Being Followed By My Life

My streak of avoiding public school bathroom stalls came to a thunderous and emphatic end in seventh grade. Behind a locked metal door, I sat on a cracked, black toilet seat and let my bell bottom cor...
Confession #71: Happy Birthday From Me and My Son’s Dentist

Happy Birthday to David Galbraith. There, I said it. This seems as good a place as any to share that thought. I’ve been thinking about his birthday for about a week, ever since Facebook told me...
Confession #70: I Just Checked In To A Firing Squad

You are strapped to a chair. There is a virtual target on your brain. You hear the words, Ready, Aim, Fire. And boom, thousands of pieces of data are being shot at you from every angle. Every time you...

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N.P.V. and the G.O.P.

Glad news from Beacon Hill: yesterday, the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, as the Bay State quaintly calls its legislature, completed action on the National Popular Vote bill and sent it to...
Debating N.P.V.

As promised in my live chat yesterday, more about N.P.V.! The Cato Institute, the Vatican (or maybe the Saddleback Church) of corporate libertarianism, recently hosted a debate between John R. Koza, t...
Gottlieb on Voting

In this week’s magazine, Anthony Gottlieb reviews “Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present,” a new book by George Szpiro, a journalist and mathem...
N.P.V. Update: Massachusetts and New York

Last Thursday, the Massachusetts senate passed the National Popular Vote bill, 28 to 10. The Bay State’s house of representatives passed it a month ago, 113 to 35. Done deal? In the bag? Not so.
Tea Party Poop

Mark Williams, the Tea Party bigwig and “conservative” talk show host, thinks he has found the smoking gun that will consign the NAACP “to the trash heap of history, where they belon...

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Robinson Jeffers

To a Young Artist It is good for strength not to be merciful To its own weakness, good for the deep urn to run over, good to explore The peaks and the deeps, who can endure it, Good to be hurt, who ca...
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familial attraction, or Westermarck v. Freud

In the first experiment, people were shown a series of faces of strangers and asked to rank their sexual attractiveness. Before each of the faces were shown, half the subjects were subliminally expose...
The Joyful Noise, and The Farting Preacher

Sometimes I think the internet was created so this would have a place to live. In 1985, two American men began distributing a video they compiled lampooning Tilton and his ostensible conversations wit...

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Hiatus

This blog is on hiatus, but you can follow me on Twitter and at DIY Drones, where I’m posting daily. I’ll use this blog for occasional longer pieces that don’t fit either of those two other spot...
The Long Tail of Travel

For a recent speech to a travel company, we pulled together some data on the changing shape of travel due to low-cost carriers, online travel information and social-media driven word of mouth taking t...
Is this how the singularity happens?

This was one of those freaky moments when the future sneaks up and smacks you. I was on a plane earlier this week and took a break from work to watch the movie while they served dinner. It was Termina...
Netflix data shows shifting demand down the Long Tail

A team at Wharton did some Long Tail analysis on the Netflix ratings data the company released for its Netflix Prize. Although I don’t agree with many of the conclusions in their paper (like some ot...
A New York Times Bestseller!

If you checked out today’s New York Times Book Review section, you’ll see that FREE made the list in its first week of eligibility. It’s #12, tied for #11 (that’s what that little asterisk mea...

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Watching the Corners: On Future-Proofing Your Passion

On May 16, 2010, at 10:02 AM, “Xx” wrote: You mentioned you gave a talk at Rutgers about future prooﬁng your passion. Is this available as a podcast? I’d love to&...
Video: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk (Improvised Rutgers Edition)

Video: Merlin Mann - “Time & Attention Talk (improvised)” Audio (mp3): “Merlin Mann - ‘Rutgers Time & Attention Talk’” This is a talk I...
Catching Up: 3 Interviews from a Cooling Crucible

After almost a year of hand-wringing, fretting, and occasionally even writing the odd string of English words, I’ve ﬁnally started turning into the home stretch with the ﬁrst draft...
Yes. Another Backup Lecture.

Daring Fireball: An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox Hard drives are fragile. Read as much as you can bear to about how they work, how incredibly precisely they must operate in ord...
First, care.

Asked and answered by the wonderful Frank Chimero: Anonymous asked: ‘How do you maintain focus (on work, dreams, goals, life)?’ You do one thing at a time. You might be ama...

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What's Harder: Science or Rapping?

Three interns at Intellectual Ventures have made a rap video.
Quotes Uncovered: On Tools and Problems

The origins of "If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."...
A Clue to Referee Bias?

The BPS Research Digest reports that "[a] simple perceptual bias could influence football referees' judgments about whether a foul occurred or not."...
Teen Sex, Binge Drinking, and Obesity

In "Binge Drinking & Sex in High School" (abstract here; PDF here), Jeffrey S. DeSimone argues that "binge drinking significantly increases participation in sex, promiscuity, and the failure to u...
Too Many Constraints

One of my German colleagues has access to €30,000 for Gleichstellung-a German version of an EU-wide initiative to achieve equality between healthy white males and various "disadvantaged" groups, inc...

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Perhaps You Would Look Better in Padded Panties

A new category of shaping garments proposes to do for the buttocks what the brassiere has done for the torso: “you can lift it, round it and shape it.” “It’s part of the whole...
Winston Churchill's Dentures Were Designed to Preserve His Lisp

Dentures that once belonged to Winston Churchill are in the news after fetching £15,200 in an auction. In his wartime radio broadcasts, Churchill’s distinctive voice was instantly recognisable.
Ship Lost for 150 Years Found in Arctic Ice

In 1850, the HMS Investigator sailed into the Canadian Arctic in search for the fabled Northwest Passage. Captain Robert McClure and his crew, after getting trapped in ice in 1853, abandoned the ship...
What Is It? Game 147

Hello Neatoramanauts! This week’s collaboration with the What Is It? Blog brings us this truly strange object to the left. Can you guess its function? Place your guess in the comment section. On...
5 Amazing Early Explorers

Back in school, you may have learned about the European Age of Discovery: the time during the 15th-18th Centuries when Europeans traveled all over the world to lands previously unknown to them. But t...

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Phil Zimbardo on Time

Now I love Phil even more.
Greatest Literary Love Scenes

On Pandalous I find a conversation about the "Greatest Literary Love Scenes" and posted there, this passage from For Whom The Bell Tolls (which I've never read): Then there was the smell of heather c...
Extreme Solitude by Jeffrey Eugenides

Years ago I too was given a copy of A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes, one of the singularly least romantic books about romance, as evidenced by the quote, also read to me once, at the end of this...
Unordered List AGAIN

It's been a long time since I've posted an unordered list, and since I'm already on a roll blogging today, here you go: Predictive Modeling Warns Drivers One Hour before Jams Occur "IBM is about to...
To do great things

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for someth...

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Announcing the hibernation of lessig.org/blog (from the blogs-deserve-a-sabbatical-too department)

So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal, I penned my first (wildly and embarrassingly defensive) missive to Dave. Some 1753 e...
Remix supporting a Medieval world (as critics have insisted)

Five-year old Felix's mom, Kierstin, sent me this image a bit ago. "I thought you would get a laugh out of these photos where your Remix became a crucial supporting wall for a Medieval Castle, manned...
REMIX unmixed

Dave Wiley has an interesting idea he calls unmixing (in contrast to remixing), which he demonstrates with the first bit of REMIX. Basically, using Yahoo's BOSS, he reassociates every three words to a...
The struggle to improve PACER

So you're likely not to recognize the term -- in all caps, PACER -- but if you do, the amazing sorts at the Stanford Law Library are trying hard to organize attention to getting this essential service...
Speak Out on (Canadian) Copyright

The wonderful Michael Geist has a site to facilitate organizing and thought around "the first Canadian public consultation on copyright policy since 2001."...

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Thoughts on Designing for iPad

I’ve been designing for websites for 15 years now, and designing for print for even longer. For the last few…Post from: Derek PowazekThoughts on Designing for iPad...
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Wanna Get Planted? So I have this nutty idea to make a site for people who like plants but aren't,…Post from: Derek Powazeklinks for 2010-07-26...
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4chan Hackers Attack Gawker Again Gawker has successfully trolled the trolls. But to what end? Everyone here looks like a…Post from: Derek Powazeklinks for 2010-07-22...
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Longshot! 48 Hour Magazine is now Longshot! (tags: 48hrmag magazine) Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her…Post from: Derek Powazeklinks for 2010-07-21...
I Love My New Woolly Pocket

Say you’ve got a wall that gets nice light – the bright, indirect light that plants love – but you…Post from: Derek PowazekI Love My New Woolly Pocket...

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TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene

insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing ...
Google Alarm Firefox add-on

audio alerts when your personal info's sent to Google servers ...
Bradley and Bethany

Dan Wineman's App Store review fanfic ...
Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character

they're retroactively changing him in all versions of the game ...
Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness

the iPhone and iPad is the Internet's equivalent of a hip flask ...

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The Shanghai Surprise: Urban Planning Is Sexy!

I'm writing this on the plane flying back after a ten day trip circumnavigating the globe. I started in Oxford (for the wonderful TEDGlobal conference) where my wife and I walked alongside the ancient...
Introducing Appify

Wherever you happen to fall in the debate over the proper App Store model--whether you think Apple's store is too authoritarian, or Google's too anarchic--there is one thing I think most reasonable pe...
More On The Shallows

In today's New York Times I have an essay responding to Nicholas Carr's new book, The Shallows. While I disagree with the overarching conclusions of Nick's book, it's a great read and wonderfully writ...
Where Good Ideas Come From

On Friday, I got the galley copies of my new book, to be published in early October. It’s called Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History Of Innovation. I’ve been working on this one for al...
Is Steve Jobs Repeating His Past Mistakes?

One of my very favorite writers, Robert Wright, had an interesting Opinionator post at the NY Times site this week, which revolved around the question of Steve Jobs' alleged lust for power and why he...

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Nuts & Bolts: Storage

Next up in the Nuts & Bolts series, I want to cover storage. There were a number of questions about our storage infrastructure after my new datacenter post asking about the Isilon storage cluster...
Product Blog update: Campfire for iPhone, Draft update, favicon/iPhone icons in Basecamp, etc.

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog: Campfire Introducing Campfire for iPhone Ember officially became 37signals Campfire for iPhone (iTunes App Store link). As an added bonus, we’...
VIDEO: SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria…

SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria on web vs. print. “These things might seem obvious, but they’re not the conversations we’re having.” (via RS)...
QUESTION: What could we be better at?

What could we be better at?
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: TechSmith, Litmus, iData, and A Small Orange

Below: We’re getting so many submissions for our “Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud” series that it’s tough to find room to profile everyone. So here’s a roundup post...

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Should I do this deal ?

This showed up in my email inbox today. It was so interesting and consise an offering I just had to share it with everyone and get your thoughts ! Mark, Please review the following o...
The End of Location Based Applications ?

I just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time. It’s great for traffic patterns, security, and much...
So Where is Lebron Going ?

I have no idea. To his credit, this has been the best kept secret since the formula for Coca Cola. Talking to owners, GM, players, friends of Lebrons’ , no one knows. So let me you give you...
Some Notes to Congress on the Economy

Why not put my 2 cents in ? Here are a few notes that hopefully a couple politicians will take note of: 1. Carried Interest Taxes Of course it should be taxed at normal income rates because that is wh...
What Newspapers Can Learn From Facebook and Mobile, how Google was the big loser in the FB Privacy Debate

I’ve written multiple times about the value of independence from Google to Newspapers. Of course, each generated responses from many who disagreed with me. I just wanted to point out that Fac...

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Summer Reading - 07/26/10

This week's summer reading installment features medical graphic novels, the best nameless protagonists, and a thrillers roundup. Adults: NPR: Fun In The Sun: Laugh-Out-Loud Summer Books NPR: A London...
Do-Gooders give themselves license to cheat elsewhere

It seems that humans do a simple moral calculation whenever faced with a choice: "Have I done something good recently?" Those who have (or who have just thought about it) tend to give themse...
How to foster creativity in your children and yourself

Long-time readers know how impatient I am with the idea that creativity belongs to a small subset of people. Recent research supports what I've known all along - that creativity is the birthright of e...
Introducing Bizarro Fiction

Is bizarro fiction the most awesome literary genre ever conceived? Consider the evidence: Jeff Burk's Shatnerquake is the story of William Shatner. [...] All of the characters he has ever played are s...
Canabalt makes learning touch typing fun

Educational games are notoriously dreary, but here's a model that more studios should emulate: Game developer Adam Saltsman retooled his popular platformer to require players to use a changing set of...

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Sindy's 1972 -1976 Wardrobe

Oh I love the Internet. I was daydreaming about my favorite doll growing up: Britain's answer to Barbie - Sindy, and I decided to see if I could find images of the outfits I had for her when I was you...
Jamie and Me

This is classic procrastinator behavior. When I was in Ireland, fellow lazy blogger Dave and I made a pact that we would do two blog posts before the end of February, so what do I do? Two posts in one...
Tim

We found out on Friday January 29th that my dad's scan had revealed colon cancer which had spread to his liver. By Monday, February 1st I was on a plane home. I just couldn't stand to not be there. I...
Some Photos

Eric and me in LA at Jed's wedding: Eric and my brother John: Eric in Ireland: My dad with the blonde in the black dress: Me at my first art show opening, in 2006:...
49 New Reasons

I am preparing for another show, featuring more of the 49 Mile Drive paintings. I don't want it to be the same show as I had a year and a half ago in the Curiosity Shoppe. That was such a fun show, bu...

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Tim Berners-Lee. Confirming The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented

I wrote to Tim Berners-Lee after exploring CERN last week, looking for the location where the web was invented, his replies regarding the exact locations are below. [ I've put up photos of the excursi...
Connections’ 911 Connection. A Perfect Coincidence to Show There are no Conspiracies

People look for patterns and co-incidences, and in the modern environment there are more co-incidences than our brains are calibrated to think are normal - what Richard Dawkins calls the PETWAC (Popul...
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Switzerland and Islam

On the left: Swiss poster demonizing Islam, to support the ban on minarets. On the right: Swiss poster proclaiming an understanding of Arab culture, soliciting funds for a private bank. The controvers...
Sheep: Truth vs Fiction

My son likes Shaun the Sheep, a cute character created by Wallace and Gromit’s Nick Park. Yesterday’s trip to a petting zoo revealed the diabolical, moth-eaten, nightmare-generating monste...

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Normal Service Will Be Resumed As Soon As Possible

A few years ago, the BBC World Service did an adaptation of my novel Anansi Boys. I’m a big fan of radio drama, and a huge admirer of the director who did it, but things went a bit wrong. The bigges...
Amazingly gratified...

The Locus Awards were given out this weekend. They're the SF/Fantasy awards with the largest voting base, the readership of Locus, the monthly news magazine of the field:http://www.locusmag.com/News/2...
Sire! I have News!

Well, I'm not quite at the point where I'm ready to start blogging again. But it's now in sight. And this is a quick sort of temporary post, for those of you convinced you'll never see me again, to as...
this is the way "Cabal Fortnight" ends...

Web goblin here, one last time for the final post of what I like to think of as "Cabal: Year One", marking an appropriate completion to "Cabal Fortnight". It's been fun, as always. See you around on...
I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now.

Welcome to the penultimate post in "Cabal Week". I'm your host, the web goblin. (You may wonder why I keep identifying myself. It's because I'm still getting comments on the LJ feed, on Facebook, a...

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My greatest triumph!

Sorry. I can't resist. John Carson, a fellow runner from Canada, unearthed this photo from the archives of the Toronto Star. It's the finals of the 1500 meters at the Ontario 14-year-old championships...
Drug Development

On Forbes.com, the drug industry analyst Avik Roy has written a comment on my piece "The Treatment" in last week's New Yorker. A few small points, in response. Roy is of the impression that...
Speaking Tour!

I will be doing a short tour of the U.K. next week, speaking on a brand new mystery topic! I'll be in Edinburgh on Sunday May 9th, Oxford on the 10th, Manchester on the 11th and Newcastle on the 12th.
Pinker, Round Two

In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Steven Pinker responds to my description of him as occupying the “lonely ice floe of IQ fundamentalism”: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe�...
Letting Igons be Igons

From "Blowing Up," by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, April 22,2002...

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Shared: How to Swear in English, if You’re Korean: “Little…

How to Swear in English, if You’re Korean: “Little children and pregnant women should not watch, because it will be bad for their education.” Gets funnier every time I watch it.Comments...
Shared: Saturday Night Live: China Cold Open — I don’t watch…

Saturday Night Live: China Cold Open — I don’t watch SNL much anymore but this week’s (repeat) opening skit on U.S./China relations was hilarious. I love the translator.Comments...
Shared: TrentWalton.com

TrentWalton.com: Trent’s site is really nice. The single-blog-post index is an interesting touch. Make sure to click “Prev” to peruse some of Trent’s other posts.Comments...
Shared: How to make a Lost Cat poster if you’re a graphic designer…

How to make a Lost Cat poster if you’re a graphic designer and you don’t like doing free work for people. (via jimray)Comments...
Shared: “Apple of My Eye”: A short movie, filmed and edited…

“Apple of My Eye”: A short movie, filmed and edited entirely on an iPhone. Beautiful stuff. (via gruber)Comments...

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The "Yes, and..." Culture

In improvisational theater and comedy, one of the first rules of participation is allowing co-creation. Basically, instead of saying "No, wait!" you respond to your...
Three Weeks in Three Videos

Been busy running around doing a bunch of fun stuff lately; Here's some videos with highlights! The Personal Democracy Forum invited me to talk about...
Ignoring It Won't Make It Go Away

Michael Arrington argues, over at TechCrunch, that the startup community should ignore the current administration's entreaties for feedback on tech policy, and instead shoo policy...
The Health Graph

Over the past two and a half decades, the Weather Channel built itself into a $3.5 billion company on the strength of information that's largely...
Here's What's Up

When there's no time for original content, we link! These are the places I've popped up lately, or things that caught my eye: We published...

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champion on inception

Edward's Champion's reviews are always worth reading, and his new review of *Inception* is no exception, especially since it's studded with gems like "It’s never a wise idea to name a protagonist af...
five bits out of context

1. Ruth Bourdain: "Happy Bastille Day everyone! I’m going to celebrate by curling up in bed with my 30 lb foie gras pillow and French flag blanket and watch Jacques Tati movies while stoned." 2. Spe...
just like the snowglobe

I've actively watched *maybe* an aggregate of 90 minutes of The Hills through it's run on MTV, so admittedly I'm not the best person to weigh in on what they did with the finale. But still... > As...
tldr

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza a...
the horror. the horror.

Design that works, sells volumes, while design that is beautiful is heralded in the design community. To any designer with a fetish for tattoo-like filigree or a penchant for overlapping color to crea...

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Good Faith

It goes like this. Decide you’re ready for a fast prime lens, because much of the time you’re taking pictures in low light and you need the flexibility one would provide. Discover your Nikon cam...
A DSLR Catechism

Which lens is best to have on hand?The one at home. Which camera is best?The model a step up from the one you just bought. When will the right camera for you be available?Probably next year. When w...
Maximum Bob

I wrote a thingy on the podcasting format a couple months ago – making fun of novelty gadgets and mediocrity, but also listing shows I subscribe to and like. Within an hour or so of posting it my Ap...
These days

Last one for now, I promise. Sort of.
Prescience

It’s funny how many people, on learning that I’m Canadian, presume I must therefore have an opinion on Glenn Gould. As it happens I do, but the likelihood of any Canadian having one is up there wi...

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The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization

"In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerf...
Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion: A Few Notes for Marcus Brauchli

"Reporting can be trusted if it is cured of opinion. Reporting can be trusted if it is dusted with opinion. Or even completely interwoven with opinion. It can lead to conclusions. Or the conclus...
The Politico Opens the Kimono. And then Pretends it Never Happened.

"Think about what the Politico is saying: an experienced beat reporter would probably not want to 'burn bridges' with key sources by telling the world what happens when those sources let their gu...
Fixing The Ideology Problem in Our Political Press: A Reply to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder

"If your job is to make the case, win the negotiations, decide what the community should do, or maintain morale, that is one kind of work. If your job is to tell people what's going on, and equip...
Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press

That it's easy to describe the ideology of the press is a point on which the left, the right and the profession of journalism converge. I disagree. I think it's tricky. So tricky, I've had to invent m...

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Crowdsource government work

One way to reset the relationship of government and the public — from constant complaint — is to make it collaborative — thus constructive. In my pollyanna way, I imagine a day when...
Value-added journalism

I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, whether his paper should have started Wikileaks. I wondered whether the Guardian was looking at WIkileaks the way it looked at HuffPo when it...
What if there are no secrets?

Is no secret safe? That’s the moral to the Wikileaks war log story: you never know what might be leaked. Of course, that itself is nothing new: Whenever we reveal information to even one person,...
Disliking the public

There are those in the press and government who don’t like or trust the public they serve. It is an unliberal attitude–which can come from Liberals, by the way–for it doesn’t b...
Advertising is next

Condé Nast is a house built on smoke and mirrors — that is, to say, on brand advertising. So it is astonishing to hear its CEO, Chuck Townsend, essentially toss the company’s business mod...

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A new X Challenge to clean up oil spills

Being announced right now in Washington, DC: A brand-new X Challenge to combat oil spills. The Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge is a $1.4 million prize to promote development of new technologies...
A monkey economy as irrational as ours: Laurie Santos on TED.com

Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the s...
TEDxAmsterdam’s ‘Ideas Worth Doing’ Video Competition

(Cross-posted from the TEDx Blog) TEDxAmsterdam has thought up a creative way to curate their audience — pose a global challenge to transform an ‘idea worth spreading’ to an ‘i...
The oil spill’s toxic trade-off: Susan Shaw on TED.com

Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that’s grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it’s sparing some beaches onl...
Premiering tonight: Tony Robbins’ TV series on NBC

Tonight (Tuesday, July 27) on NBC TV stations, Tony Robbins debuts his first-ever TV series, Breakthrough with Tony Robbins. In the six-episode series, Robbins works with six people facing an extreme...

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