Rough Drafts

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” —

As much as Google rocks,there is one area where it really sucks: Searching weblogs. That’s because it’s not particularly intelligent about separating or summarizing weblog entries, making it a pretty blunt tool for finding specific information on a blog.

David Weinberger has a very eloquent, pointed comment on the most recent academic plagiarism scandal. I love the disclaimer at