Everything is Everything

It has been a thrilling whirlwind. I’m in Boca Raton with my family for Passover to relax, and the last thing I want to do is spend the time on the computer. But knowing that you dear readers sit and wait with bated breath for my next blog post, I’m whipping up something. Instead of…

With themes like “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” firmly in our cultural discourse, most of us who study technology see it as an advancement in human progress at the expense of individual human ability. I tend to see the ability to look up information any time as a deterrent to learning, and the ability to…

I no longer believe in hyperlinks.

Human society is great – we can create controversy out of anything! For the font nerds among us, remember this debacle from the ’90s? From the Wikipedia entry on Wingdings: Wingdings has a history of controversy. In 1992, only days after the release of Windows 3.1, it was discovered that the character sequence “NYC” in…

I bought this shirt in a moment of unbridled idealism during the 2008 elections. (The = is the symbol for marriage equality.) Now the shirt stays in the closet like the gays in the military.

While listening to WNYC I heard an interview with Atul Gawande about his book “The Checklist Manifesto.” It’s premise is simple: checklists force doctors to double-check their work, saving lives. What was very interesting was his discussion about the tremendous resistance he has encountered from experts, claiming that the idea demeans their expertise. He said…

Remember this? Oh the irony.

In a conversation about death, Tucker once said to me “you don’t ever actually die. In a very real and physical sense, each of your actions makes an impact on others. I am a different person because of you, and you because of me.” I like to think of the world that way, that we…

It’s been a whirlwind of a week. Today will be the fifth day of my job working on  a major Hollywood film (the name will come soon.) I have a reverence for this director that I have for few artists and feel the same way about the source material for the film, so it’s as…

That would require hella signatures This is the kind of shit the internet is made for. Boing Boing reports that a buncha people are launching a useless and doomed-to-failure hopefully successful campaign to make the prefix for 1027 “hella.” For instance: ‘the sun (mass of 2.2 hellatons) would release energy at 0.3 hellawatts.’ It would…