As much smack as I talk about the business community, I prefer to side with organizations that invest in science rather than faith. Here are the headlines from ...
Yesterday I saw a group of working class Jose’s standing around a taco truck at midday eating lunch. There were four or five pickup trucks parked near the...
Or, to fight commoditization, provide analysis. I pay to read The New Yorker because its reporters provide a service that is rare in the information marketplace...
You know your higher education system is fucked when kids are spending $200 per plagiarized essay. Clearly, any kid spending that kind of money on an essay shou...
I’ve seen two electronic ads today I was happy to “reject”: one for a conspiracy video and the other for Meg Whitman. In the case of the forme...
My guess is that when you first launch a Pandora station it begins at the dead center of the Venn diagram created by all the people who have also endorsed/reque...
We’re weeks away from the release of a movie which chronicles the making of a popular social network. I am reading the Encyclopedia Dramatica and having a...
Urban Legends: The hipper the city, the mantra goes, the richer and more successful it will be — and a number of declining American industrial hubs have t...
An example of a Banksy intervention (graffiti!) that introduces a new meaning by changing the visual interpretation of a physical space.
While likely to get some kids jumped, the new iPod Nano is a brilliant step towards augmented reality. Note how yesteryear’s band buttons have now become ...
A video game that captures not just your movements but also those of your dog. Fun for the whole family. Come on, Kinect developers, let’s see what you...
My friend Matisse E. taught me a great trick: when you’re carrying something heavy and you are going to hand it over to someone else, you don’t let ...
The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it ...
Matthew Cordell writes: The WFP has announced a new twist in its successful program using mobile phones to alert Iraqi refugees in Syria about available food ai...
There was a time, before I always read MetaFilter and Andy Baio’s waxy.org/links, before I checked Jon Gruber’s Daring Fireball and Bruce Schneier&#...
And here I thought Google was already doing this for the U.S. government: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putti...