Last night I ended up staying awake way too late because, as I was about to go to bed, I came across these two posts by Salon’s Farhad Manjoo over at his Machinist blog. Apparently J.K. Rowling is suing some fan over his attempt to publish a print version of the Harry Potter Lexicon, an [...]
For a while I’ve been planning to write about how my house recently decided to save $80 a month and cancel cable. Growing up, I definitely watched a lot of television. When I went to college, I also watched a lot of television. During the first half of grad school, when I lived by myself, [...]
Three weeks ago I went on a bit of a rant about why Verizon does worse things than offer subpar phones. Here’s one more item for the list. Last week Verizon denied Naral Pro-Choice America permission to use their network to send text message alerts to Verizon customers who signed up. Today, Verizon decided to [...]
Building on an ongoing theme, it’s only fitting that I mention google office’s new presentation app. Unlike word processing and spreadsheets, I make power point slides fairly often, so I was pretty into the idea of a google-based replacement.
The great thing about making slides online is that there’s not need to transfer them from [...]
Can you believe that as of last week, the domain iloveURLs.com was unclaimed? With all URLs have done for the world, you’d think someone would have paid tribute to them in URL form. Fortunately for the internet, I’ve picked up the slack.
If you’ve been trying to remember that awesome video clip you showed me on the internet, it’s probably here. You can also watch the top video (courtesy of methminute39) for brief synopsis of your online existence in song form.
A while back I sung the praises of internet-based computing. With google office, for example, you never have to install a program, and you have access to your documents anywhere, and all your stuff is automatically backed up. What more could you possibly want?
Well you probably also want a photo editor. Good thing Adobe just [...]
I was tempted to write a post on this Times article, which explains that on average, men and women must have the exact same number of heterosexual partners, despite what survey’s often reveal. Sadly the author of the article doesn’t seem inclined to acknowledge the difference between averages and medians, nor does anyone interviewed in [...]
The Zonbu is a new low power, environmentally friendly, $99 dollar computer. It has no moving parts (so it’s totally silent) and limited storage (4 GB of flash). Most of its computing power comes from being connected to the internet, so Zonbu users actually pay the company for monthly storage (although the storage is actually [...]
I could be mistaken, but I think today’s slide show at the top of the New York Times homepage is the first time interactive content has appeared right at the top of the page. Equally notable is the invitation to comment right below the slideshow, since one of the user generated comments has been selected [...]