We’ll get right on that.
Is there a polyvore for furniture? There should be. Updated: It exists.
Category: ideas
epistemology, philosophy, theology, religion
Get that glucose.
It’s not that people are inherently bad. It’s that ethical thinking is hard to do. We are simple to understand: we avoid unpleasant work and seek ou...
Albert Brooks’ Real Life; liking, favoriting, sharing, commenting.
Some online activities are already or could easily be made into formal games. Take, for example, the activity of using a news reader like Google Reader to ̶...
Never mind the war of the worlds, here’s the world of the web.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the web coming to the world – the digitization of spaces like stores, restaurants, clubs, etc. Here’s a delightful video in ...
The debate over “democratic” computing, continued.
Nicholas Carr has written an excellent reflection on progress in consumer technology: While progress may be spurred by the hobbyist, it does not share the hobby...
YouTube as feedback.
There is not an original thought in what follows. I often joke that YouTube is the real Pirate Bay, that only its size and Google’s stature keep it open f...
Josh Marshall: “[T]he critics of racial progress, because they don’t comprehend it, resort to a parody of it.”
Josh Marshall nails the Republican party on Michael Steele.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
What if China’s main exports were sugar and doctors while Cuba’s main exports were Apple computers and cpg’s bound for Wal Mart?
Look it up.
A group of friends are talking about a faded movie star. No one can remember the name of her big hit. One of the friends reaches for a portable web browser and ...
Drama is king.
From the leaked David Mamet memo making the rounds: THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION. YOU WOULDN’T, I WOULDN’T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDI...
“But if everyone went back to where we were 2,000 years ago, it would be a crazy world.”
The BBC’s Owen Bennet-Jones gives Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem, enough rope to hang himself repeatedly.
From the corner store to the void.
One of the most radical essays I’ve read recently is Raffi Khatchadourian’s The Taste Makers from the November 23, 2009 edition of The New Yorker. (...
The web is coming.
Four years ago, I was one of the many who thought RSS feeds were going to transform the web. I believed in a future where few users would venture past their per...
American Psycho in light of the Great Recession.
Will Mary Harron’s American Psycho turn out to be one of the most telling movies of the last decade? Felix Salmon for Reuters as quoted by The Browser: Th...
To be conservative is to be progressive.
The NYT paraphrasing Tony Judt: Oddly enough, Mr. Judt writes, the left and right have swapped political modes. The right has become radicalized, abandoning the...
The past is a scary place.
I’m almost always behind the times when it comes to television and movies. Last night, I began watching Mad Men. (Go Maggie!) It’s one of the darkes...
More on software translation.
My friend RC and I expand on yesterday’s post about a world with ubiquitous software translation.
Life as a game.
I’ve been sending this link out for the last week but had neglected to post it here. It’s the most cogent and far-reaching explanation that I’...
Time travel — or games about compound interest — FTW!
Whoever makes a video game that indirectly teaches kids how to manage debt will change the world for the better, not just because our economy relies on consumer...