Penelope Trunk helped convince me to take my current job at Wired News, and it was great advice — I love my job. As my friend, her advice is supportive, sympathetic, frank, and cuts through the crap: Just what you wish all of your friends’ advice would be like.… Read the rest
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Month: May 2007 (page 1 of 3)
Getting even simple things done with a slightly underpowered computer and a bunch of web-based applications means you spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for TypePad to publish a post, waiting for Gmail to populate the screen with a list of the latest messages, waiting for an image to download so you can start editing it in Photoshop, waiting for Photoshop to launch.… Read the rest
As Bruce Sterling writes, this would be handy if you were lost about 6,000 light years out. It’s also very cool! An Atlas of the Universe
… Read the restThe game looks lame, and the trailer is weak, but the phrase is awesome. I would totally buy a T-shirt that had a big, bold, Helvetica I 8 NY and a picture of Godzilla on it. In black. Dinohunters: I 8 NY Trailer
… Read the restI’ll be appearing on John C. Dvorak’s internet video show, Cranky Geeks, today at 12:30pm Pacific, together with my old Ziff Davis friends Sebastian Rupley and Cade Metz. With luck, I’ll get in a good rant or two about censorship, surveillance, and Tablet PCs.… Read the rest
interesting links
- “Backpack,” by Tony Earley | The New Yorker
- Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds | Environment | The Guardian
- Boy Scouts in a war zone
- Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
- I’ve Got 99 Problems But SPF Ain’t One | Valimail
- Introducing 1Password for Democracy | 1Password
- TS Eliot prize announces 'intensely political' shortlist
- Clown School
- On Subtlety
- What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.
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