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I’m on Cranky Geeks.
I’ll be appearing on John C. Dvorak’s internet video show, Cranky Geeks, today at 12:30pm Pacific, together with my old Ziff Davis friends Sebastian Rupley and Cade Metz. With luck, I’ll get in a good rant or two about censorship, surveillance, and Tablet PCs. UPDATE 5/24: Video now available, at th
Zebra pens.
It seems to be a law of ballpoint pens that the best ones inevitably disappear, leaving behind only inferior writing implements. Thus I have managed, over the past year, to lose three Fisher Space Pens (really the perfect all-purpose pocket pen) while the promising but ultimately disappointing Zebra
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NASA’s $100 billion movie trailer.
NASA wants to pump you up: You Will Get Excited About Spending $100 Billion on a Lunar Program (yeah, I wrote that)
Geeks and Suits Rub Shoulders at GigaOm Party
Om Malik and TheLadders.com CEO Mark Cenedella joined forces to throw a cocktail party at San Francisco’s Pier 38 Thursday evening. Was this a turning point for the boomlet of optimism and hope that has been tagged with the lame moniker of “web 2.0”? Maybe, but whether it’s the high water mark or th
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I’ve been outed.
My coworker Kristen Philipkoski outed me as a Vogue subscriber. I only read it for the Jeffrey Steingarten columns, I swear.
Floola: A cure for iTunes poisoning.
I finally found an antidote to the bloated, overgrown, poorly designed mess that is iTunes. It’s a little freeware app called Floola that is just a few megabytes in size and requires no installation, so you can just put the application file on your iPod and run it from there. Floola has a straightfo
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What it takes to make a billion from writing.
Why J.K. Rowling is the first author to make a billion dollars from her writing: Leverage.
Why journalists misquote everyone.
Penelope Trunk explains why you think reporters are always misquoting you: Why journalists misquote everyone — or do they?
We Are Getting Tired of Prying Your Guns out of Your Cold Dead Hands
Headline of the week: We Are Getting Tired of Prying Your Guns out of Your Cold Dead Hands