2008

Dell Denied: 'Cloud Computing' both...

Diners spend more if menu avoids $ sign

“The Internet is the greatest thing ever invented for...”
— Harry Lewis, John McCain’s...

“And I understand that there can be a corporate culture that...”
— Max Kanat-Alexander, Design...

Getting Thru [Olympic] Security with Water

Lessig: huge and important news: free...

“A law requiring companies to secure personal data is good; a...”
— Bruce Schneier, Memo to the...

“When you deploy new tools for group coordination in a...”
— Clay Shirky, Tech Nation...

“To use these words with a straight face is to assume the...”
— Scott Berkun, Why Jargon Feeds...

“The longer and harder developers worked on the systems, the...”
— Sampo Uh-Oh on The Daily WTF

Should you ignore the n00bs?

“Going ‘social’ online… means understanding the real...”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Real Social

M.T.A. Shortfall Renews Talk of Congestion...

Amazon.com (US) says Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem...

Dell tries to trademark "cloud computing"

ATM Available Only During Banking Hours: This seems to...

“If those passengers could have torn up their virtual JetBlue...”
— Mark Hurst, The JetBlue...

Astor Place Moves Closer to Becoming a Great...

“It’s simple: when data is gathered and used for the...”
— Tim Bray, discussing Christine...

An Introduction to "Anathem"

“Congestion pricing will come, in New York and lots of other...”
— NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...

Food industry bitten by its lobbying success

Prophet — Syncable tools for the offline web

“Don’t solve your social problems with technical...”
— from Robert Kaye’s...

“Mr. Gantt is a Democratic assemblyman from Rochester. That’s...”
— Mr. Gantt Says No, unsigned NY...

Highway Funding vs. Transit Funding

New York City Subway Musicians Map

“There’s a reason elite schools speak of training leaders,...”
— William Deresiewicz, The...

Anathem and Long Now

Cheap Eats Consumer Price Index

“…the average [American Consumer Satisfaction Index]...”
— Jonathan Whitaker, How...

Revealing hidden assumptions in estimation

“The broader picture is what we’re building is an...”
— Tod Dykstra, CEO, Streetline,...

Hook vendors in the red; city rules, delays...

“I’m not singling you out, here. You’re not dumb. It’s just...”
— Max Kanat-Alexander,...

New York Magazine Buys MenuPages Site

“If a service doesn’t scale it is more likely due to...”
— Dare Obasanjo, Scalability: I...

“Its current funding is a woefully inadequate $1.2 billion....”
— Give Amtrak a Fighting Chance,...

“When J. Edgar Hoover gives you a requirement for complete...”
— Frank Raven, a “former...

Instapaper for iPhone

“The shift of online communities resembles urban development...”
— The ascendancy of Hacker News...

Don't Build Your Web Site In Flash

“…stop living your life as a waterfall-planned...”
— David H. Hansen, Early...

Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices Cut...

Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Government's...

UI Improvement for Scrolling in iPhone...

From the iPhone 3G guided tour video, which also notes improvements owners of the current iPhone...

The Wild Differences in These Polls,...

“…people want to be creative without change. They want...”
— Scott Berkun, The irony of...

“…Democrats will regret embracing the expansion of...”
— Duncan Black, in Regret,...

Domestic Airline Fee Chart

“Most people in corporate IT want to do a good job. Most...”
— Tales of an IT Director: I...

“Is cutting corners to make a buck appropriate when you...”
— Seth Godin, Is it worthy?

Curb cars and sprawl under next US leader,...

Communications and Technology Policy for the...

A picture from yesterday’s late-afternoon thunderstorm...

Latest on the Red Hook Ball Fields

“A company with email problems is also experiencing people...”
— Merlin Mann, NYT: Businesses...

Please stop publishing RSS feeds

Cutting (More) Bandwidth Costs for This...

In addition to switching bandwidth providers, it would be worthwhile for the folks at TAL to think...

“Expect transparency to be a central theme in any Obama...”
— Cass Sunstein, Obama: The...

My del.icio.us tags depicted as an “elgant word...

Cutting Bandwidth Costs for This...

This American Life has a free podcast for its many listeners who do not want to (or cannot) tune in...

“The 20th century was a horrible detour in the evolution of...”
— Enrique Peñalosa, Questions...

Site Specific Browsing Added to Safari...

MacRumors: “One new feature found in Safari 4 is the ability to save webpages as stand alone...

This Old House Plans First Ever New York City...

Lamenting iCards

Apple’s .Mac to MobileMe transition FAQ informs readers that iCards, Apple’s 8+ year-old...

“Only borrow money to pay for things that increase in value.”
— Seth Godin, Urgent personal...

“For his part, Mr. Obama is quick to take himself out of the...”
— Noam Cohen in The Wiki-Way to...

Wearing Shorts in NYC

“The best thing about Obama is what appears to so many people...”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Beyond Brand...

“If we teach everyone to be alert for photographers, and...”
— Bruce Schneier, The War on...

The 100-Cereal Taste Test - NY Mag food...

Dance Robot Dance - An Eveving at Maker...

Single Serving Sites for Obama

In another instance of thinking along the same lines, witness these two new single serving sites...

Revenge of the Freeloaders: Study Finds...

Bletchley Park faces bleak future

Big Chains Benefit From City Tax Incentives...

“I would call my attorney general in and review every single...”
— Barack Obama, on one of his...

Mischief on subways will cost lots more

Subway-Delay Stat Plan on Fast Track

Monitizing Twitter Downtime

Twitter has had some downtime lately.  It has also (relatedly) grown quite popular.  This lead not...

“The cable industry has never felt the pricing pressures the...”
— Matt Richtel, Cable Prices...

Movable Type Rebuild Issue

I expressed some annoyance with the Movable Type documentation yesterday.  In this entry, I want to...

Twitter as a Common Carrier?

“Cory Doctorow’s a lot like blog comments in general,...”
— Giles Bowkett, describing what...

“My passion for trying to get to the heart of things, to be...”
— Scott Berkun, The problem(s)...

The Cultural Cognition Project - The Second...

“In Germany, road signs change when an alternate route...

Our Data, Ourselves

$1 Billion Later, Subway Elevators Still...

“It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by...”
— The Twelve Networking Truths...

“In three other areas hurt by vanishing industry,...”
— Sam Roberts, As Deaths Outpace...

The Rebound Effect nicely illustrated

“The corporate world rewards based on perceived productivity...”
— Dan Benjamin, Offices and The...

Tripping Over Tourists in New York City

The warm NYC weather has brought out enough clueless pedestrians to tick off both Buzz Anderson and...

“Campuses create a sense of permanent community that are...”
— Jay Ackroyd, in Tax-Free Hedge...

8 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube...

via Brady Forrest

Space scientist says texting is four times...

“Fear, in other words, is a tax, and al-Qaeda and its ilk...”
— Josef Joffe, Here’s How...

“Farming has the potential to go through the greatest...”
— Dan Barber, chef at Blue Hill,...

“Almost every wrong prediction about this election cycle has...”
— Frank Rich, Party Like It’s...

Air safety, passenger rights bill hits dead...

“It appears that every time a national security letter...”
— Melissa Goodman, ACLU Staff...

CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'

“Our biggest global competitor, China, spends 9 percent of...”
— Elliot Sander, MTA Executive...

“We are top officials of the United States Senate Government...”
— Nigerian scam-style letter...

The crazy fan speculation I engaged in last week proved wrong: Ron Moore’s commentary for the...

“[The Wall Street Journal] has a good decade of international...”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Murdoch and...

Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor

AT&T Providing Free Wi-Fi Access to iPhone...

Strategic Plan for the New York City...

BSG Podcast Starts Up Again

Several weeks after the start of Battlestar Galactica season 4, it’s nice to see Executive...

“Some people are determined to deliberately misunderstand...”
— Jason Kottke,...

"Gourmet ketchup?..."

On Cutting the Land Line Phone

“…U.S. counties that have slaughterhouses consistently...”
— Do Hamburgers Cause Crime? on...

I posted a number of photos from my trip to Whistler, BC. ...

Time to Call Your Legislators About...

Google Apps: The Missing Manual

City Council Passes Congestion Pricing. Next...

“Lippmann likened the average American — or...”
— Eric Alterman on Walter...

“Add up enough urgencies and you don’t get a fire, you...”
— Seth Godin, Managing...

Schneier on Security: Security Perception:...

A Little Bit of Wierdness With Mac OS X...

After installing Security Update 2008-002, my Mac restarted and just sat on a grey screen (no Apple...

The risk for iPhone users: They know too...

Comcast sets its sights 20 minutes into the...

Arthur C. Clarke, December 16, 1917 – March...

Lunar Eclipse from Orbit

“Generally, if you’re a member of a design team, you...”
— Jakob Nielsen on how people in...

Endeavour to Orbit

“…denying certain facts about the world around you,...”
— Robert Krulwich, in...

Nerdfotainment

“People have a limited amount of self-control, and tasks...”
— Michael Inzlicht and Jennifer...

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but...”
— Rita Mae Brown (sometimes...

“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and...”
— Seth Godin, sharing some...

American Civil Liberties Union : Watch List...

Was the iPhone SDK planned all along?

Why We're Powerless To Resist Grazing On...

“The superstitions that grip airport checkpoints and banks...”
— Cory Doctrow, Time to fight...

Parks [Dept.] Issues Permit To Food Vendors...

10,000 BC live with Long Now

On Variety Among iPhone Apps

Mac developer Brent Simmons asks, “How many Twitter clients and to-do lists on [iPhone] App...

Nike + iPod Stats Tracking Coming to Gym...

J.J. Abrams: Genius Or Hack?

Stuff White People Like

On why I am not running

Lessig '08 - Ch