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Small Pieces Loosely Joined, by David Weinberger (Perseus, 2002) Something about David Weinberger’s writing style really makes me want to […]

Back in the late 1990s, a software salesman could look you in the eye and say with a straight face

Mrs. Bridge. by Evan S. Connell, Jr. (1959). I picked up this novel in the library on a whim, because

Bob Cringely has a sensible strategy for how to roll back the DMCA and its egregious limitations on technology and

Scientists have empirically established the world’s funniest joke.

The New Scientist interviews Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things, about software and product design: “You don’t

Tom Matrullo points out that Google News completes the commodification of the news business. It lumps every news organization’s article

Photographer drives across the country, taking one 35mm picture every mile. Very nifty Flash app lets you see the map

Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Assn., writes on c|net about the new “copyspeak”. Why copyrights aren’t “property” —