This is a hell of an obit about a man who must have been a hell of a writer. Not being a sports fan, I hadn’t heard about Bud Shrake until I read this, and now I’m sorry I missed him. I’m pretty sure they aren’t making journalists like this any more. Sally Jenkins – […]

This is one of the most fun interviews I’ve done in a long time. Wired.com Video: High-Tech Cellist Fuses Music, MacBook | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

Mini bio of Claude Shannon, founder of modern information theory: April 30, 1916: Information Theory, Who’s Your Daddy? | This Day In Tech.

Google Maps Typography, by Rhett Dashwood.

Former Gawker editor and Awl founder Choire Sicha: “If I were going to be buying things now, I would be buying media properties. You get a lot of bang for your buck. People are making good, stable money, recession or no. Now is the time that people should be trying things and having fun.” Choire […]

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I want to see video of someone riding this. Jalopnik – Segway Goes Steampunk With “Legway” – Legway.

How to make delicious Totoro cream puffs, by bento art genius Annathered. We are totally doing this. (thanks, Xeni!)

Barney Kilgore: “It doesn’t have to have happened yesterday to be news” via L. Gordon Crovitz Says Bernard Kilgore Knew How to Make Old Media New Again – WSJ.com.

Dell pushes the upper echelons of netbookitude with the Mini 10. It’s a little laptop whose Atom processor marks it as a populist ultraportable, but whose 10-inch, wide-format display and HDMI port reveal more aristocratic ambitions. Want to catch the last episode of Battlestar Galactica while hangi

I’ll be a guest speaker at Racepoint Group, a PR firm, during the lunch hour today. I’ll be talking about a few things Here’s what I planned on talking about. For what I actually said, see this summary by Caroline Kawashima: Dylan Tweney visits Racepoint. If I get a chance, I’ll try to flesh some […