Dylan Tweney

Well, I should have lots more time for blogging now that my days won’t be taken up with the agonizing work of producing the world’s most entertaining, authoritative magazine on mobile technology. Yes, it’s true: Mobile magazine has folded. Despite having far better-written, more accurate, and better

For me, Disney’s Electrical Parade was the highlight of our visit there this past spring. It’s a long, trippy parade of illuminated vehicles and floats, some of which are covered with thousands of lights, which starts just about sundown and goes on for maybe 20 minutes. As it rolls slowly by in the

Sept. 17 is Coastal Cleanup Day. Go catch a spork crab!

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index

A lot: see Don’t dumb me down, the latest installment of the Guardian’s weekly “Bad Science” column.

A guy named Alvaro has posted an amazing series of 197 photos showing New Orleans before, during, and after the hurricane.

A computer scientist looks at the brain: “You” are just a subroutine, and a recently-added one at that. You’re like a user-mode driver that gets access to certain kernel data, but you only see and control what the kernel lets you. You have no direct access to the kernel’s process space, but you can

Unbelievable stories of indifference and brutality on the part of so-called rescuers and emergency personnel: Hurricane Katrina — Our Experiences (EMS Network, also cited in Daily Kos) Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim to Growing Violence, Chaos (National Press Photographers’ Ass’n) Plus

Witness the awe-inspiring rides of Chunk 666.

Disaster survival tips from Andreas Ramos. How to Recharge Your Cellphone with Common Batteries 1) Turn off your cellphone. Reserve battery power as much as possible. Turn down screen brightness, turn off vibrate, turn down sound. 2) To recharge a cellphone with ordinary batteries, cut the power sup

One of the big problems in the New Orleans area right now–perhaps the biggest problem–is figuring out what needs doing, and how to do it. Even with accurate information, relief agencies like FEMA and the Red Cross are clearly having difficulty synthesizing that data, formulating a plan, and followin

California’s State Senate passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriages yesterday. Opposing state Senator Tom McClintock objected, saying that “Marriage is the institution by which we propagate our species and inculcate our young.” Hmm. Actually, sex is how we propagate our species, and education is h