Maker Faire and DIY culture.
O’Reilly’s annual Maker Faire is happening this weekend, May 3 and 4, 2008, in San Mateo. It’s a festival of […]
Rough Drafts
Wired
Your Shoes Are Killing Your Feet
Your shoes are destroying your feet. More specifically, they’re messing up the perfectly-balanced, coordinated bipedal gait that our species evolved
Field Notes
Update on tinywords.
If you follow my daily haiku magazine, tinywords, you’ll notice that it hasn’t exactly been “daily” for the past week.
Media Appearances
Cranky Geeks.
I’m on the latest episode of John C. Dvorak’s video show, Cranky Geeks, this week. This was a fun one:
Published Work
Cool Tool: Topeak Mini 6
This incredibly compact, bike-oriented multi-tool has five different sizes of Allen wrench plus a Phillips screwdriver head, all of which
Wired
Organized Chaos Reigns at Bil, the Alterna-TED
The annual TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Monterey, Calif. is a terrific, mind-expanding experience for all who attend.
Rough Drafts
Why people turn evil, from Stanford to Abu Ghraib.
This is one of the most difficult stories I’ve edited in a long time: How Good People Turn Evil, From
Field Notes
Apostrophes and semicolons.
For people who love punctuation, there’s always something to grieve about: Humans have trouble understanding semicolons, and computers can’t handle
Wired
Book Review: What Would MacGyver Do?
Brendan Vaughan’s collection of real-life tales of ingenuity, What Would MacGyver Do?, recently republished by Penguin, has a great premise:
Media Appearances
Where I’ve been (on the radio and TV).
Thanks to the hard-working PR team at Wired, I’ve been in the media several times in the past few days: