June 13, 2008
April 28, 2008
Marc Andreessen has a great break-down of Microsoft's potential hostile takeover of Yahoo! at his blog. The takeaway message is that the tech industry appears to have matured enough that we'll be seeing more of the same types of things that used to be left strictly to older businesses.
Foreign Policy is having a vote for the world's top intellecutals. Choose from their list of 100, which includes quantum gravity researcher (who has been willing to avoid embracing string theory full force) Lee Smolin, but includes Larry Summers (boo) and a good deal of other recognizable names (Paul Krugman, Fareed Zakaria).
April 17, 2008
April 05, 2008
You can now pry the gun from his cold, dead hands. Charleton Heston is the latest late celebrity.
March 18, 2008
Arthur C. Clarke doesn't make it to 2010. Another visionary gone. Though I still find the space baby creepy.
January 02, 2008
The late night shows return tonight with (WWP) and without (NBC) their writers. [more inside]
December 14, 2007
Google Zeitgeist is here - it's part of what makes this the most magical part of the year. I thought the RIP section was funny in that 7 of the top 10 entries didn't, y'know, actually die. Also, the goddamn crazy frog is still hanging on at #5.
But just when I was ready to lose faith in peoples' ability to set priorities came this list:
1. how to kiss
2. how to draw
3. how to knit
4. how to hack
5. how to dance
6. how to crochet
7. how to meditate
8. how to flirt
9. how to levitate
10. how to skateboard
Actually, yup: that's about exactly the right list, in more or less the right order even.
November 15, 2007
B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Sorry, no other witty ways to describe this came to mind.
September 19, 2007
The Grey Lady throws open her archives to Hoi Polloi - Kottke mines some gems.
September 13, 2007
The Google Lunar X prize. $25 million to the first private capital team to put an autonomous rover on the moon and drive around a bit. This is the start of a new space race, for sure.
August 27, 2007
Must have "integrity, decency, and principle" and should be willing to abrogate constitutional rights in search of the greater good, as deemed by supervisor. Position requires thick skin and heavy hands. This is a term position, unlikely to be renewed in 2009.
May 01, 2007
RIP Herbert Kornfeld, Accounts Receivable Supervisor - now tippin' on 44s and 1099s with his homie CPA-ONE. His strangely prescient last column will stand in memoriam to one of the greats from the old school:
Sleepless hours and dreamless nights and far aways / Ooo ooo ooo, wishing you were here. —Chicago, "Wishing You Were Here"
I be blastin' this def tune outta tha Nite Rida's sweet-ass factory-installed speakas a lot lately. Suckas always comin' up 2 me sayin', damn Dog, we thought you down wit' tha gangsta rap, not no Chicago VII. I say hell no, I gots mad hate foe that wack hip-hop shit. Hall N' Oatz, Neily D, that band that supply air: now that's tha mad slammin' shit, word dat. Tha H-Dog listens easy, always has, always will.
April 24, 2007
David Halberstam passed away - in a car accident of all things.
April 23, 2007
Earth to rural Georgia: Welcome to 2007. [more inside]
April 17, 2007
Great, is it time for the copycats to come out? St. Edwards evacuated on a bomb threat. I say any asswipe caught pulling stunts like this be flogged Singapore style in the center of campus.
April 16, 2007
Is David Sedaris the next James Frey? The author of this piece in The New Republic (bugmenot) says no just before he (lightly) proceeds to give all of his "non-fiction" works a factual scrub-down. (Hint: it doesn't all check out).
The literary establishment responds mostly with support and a pish-tosh attitude. I still want to look up to Sedaris as a literary hero but condemn James Frey and Jayson Blair. Any suggestions to help calm my psychic dissonance?
April 11, 2007
April 05, 2007
This is about the ultimate in dickishness, douchbagitation, and jackassery.
February 22, 2007
I've heard of Working Assets before but I think they're blazing a new trail with the Planned Parenthood Wireless plan. 10% of your phone bill is donated to Planned Parenthood...and they'll buy out your current contract? Is this the future of fundraising? What must this gambit be worth?
January 24, 2007
U.S. military has developed a ray gun. No, seriously. I think CNN's choice of title for this article is making me more alarmed than I should be. Also: "Technology is supposed to be harmless".
January 19, 2007
Chinese destroy satellite in orbit - revealing a major new military capability and generating a dangerous amount of political and actual fallout debris. Look to the Skies.