Technology
Wow – all I can say is wow. What a fantastic review for “Oceans of Light: A Users Guide to the Multiverse” over at the iTunes Bookstore. “A thoroughly good read … Lucky for us he’s also a terrific writer!” It is especially heartwarming to know of the personal impact this book has had on […]
UPDATE: The game is now up and running, but you need to figure out how to get started! (Big hint — follow the links.) You know the story about the plumber who is so busy he never has time to fix his own sink? Well a webmaster can sometimes be in a similar bind. So […]
You remember HAL, the psychologically conflicted HAL9000 computer in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” – locked Dave Bowman (Kier Dullea) outside in the cold of space when Dave began to suspect the computer was misbehaving? Yeah, that HAL. Well along comes Siri, on the new iPhones Treesh and I got last month. Treesh has […]
Ok, so we all know Greece is going down, right? So the next question is, how many bankers have we among us to step up to the plate and defend the Old World from this tsunami of economic collapse? Where can you draw the line and build the wall necessary to defend your country and […]
It’s great to be an American. Here’s an idea I’ve had that I’d like to share with you right here in the public domain. An idea so incredibly simple a Yahoo could do it! The first company to bifurcate the world wide web into two hemispheres… THE CORPORATION PROPERTIES — and the — PERSONAL HUMAN […]
I think that’s just a beautiful thing to share, I love you.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011 Read Steve Jobs – A biography by Walter Isaacson
A funny thing happened on our way to Burning Man… Brigid, our 17-year-old Chevy S10 pickup, suffered catastrophic engine failure while going 75mph on I-80 about 20 miles east of Sidney, Nebraska. Lots of banging and shuddering, then the engine was dead, the dashboard lit up, and we coasted to a stop on the shoulder […]
If we tend to think things are going from bad to worse, this video is clearly the antidote. Hans Rosling’s global health video — “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes” — plots lifespan on the vertical axis, and income/wealth on the horizontal axis, animating data in realspace.
My friend Patrick Griffin has published an excellent article titled “For Heaven’s Sake People… Don’t Be Afraid to Talk When Things Go Wrong!” It’s all about the lack of communication from “Just 2 Bucks A Month” (J2BAM) owner/admin Mike Chaundy, and the deep distrust this failure to communicate has sewn among the program’s membership. Like […]
