Things added in March, 2006
Clara the robot, the sequel.
Hey, look, my daughter's on Boing Boing!Boing Boing: Earth-children vs. Space Robots: things get ugly.We are all so proud.
101 Fabulous Freebies
My feature story for PC World's May issue is online, and it's a doozy. This story has capsule reviews of 101 completely free programs and web-based services. I worked my tail ...
Searching for Dummies
Are search engines making students dumber--or do they just not know how to use search engines well? Searching for Dummies - NYT
Wikipedia study: Cooked?
Andrew Orlowski dishes more dirt on the Nature comparison of Wikipedia vs. Britannica: Nature mag cooked Wikipedia study | The Register"Nature sent only misleading fragments of some Britannica articles to the ...
Camera review in Wired.
My first review for Wired is out, in April's issue. It's on page 74, but for you digital types, it's also midway down this page: Wired 14.04: PLAY
Wikipedia’s reliability?
This morning, the WSJ ran a story on the Encyclopedia Britannica's efforts to defend itself against assertions that it's no more accurate than Wikipedia: WSJ.com - In a War of Words, ...
Selfish genes and soft heads.
Ten years ago I wrapped up my studies for an MA in religious studies, and walked out of the academic world. I had spent the previous two years of graduate study (plus ...
Attention and sex.
"There isn’t a single great work in the history of civilization, no novel, symphony, film, or song that was completed as a 1/5th time-slice between e-mail, IM, cellphones and television." Attention ...