Welcome to the Interdome

Ok, I get it now. I already wrote my last post on why tablet computers will be near-useless devices , though they may sell. [summation: it...

from the unconscious literary engine that is spam email: As I told you, it occurred to them that I might be an engineer. You know the rest, ...

On the Twitter microsyntax front, Project EPIC is working out an emergency syntax for Haiti rescue communication efforts . It's interest...

"Tar pitch is a viscoelastic polymer. This means that even though it seems to be solid at room temperature and can be shattered with a ...

Every so often I read an article about tablet computers, and I get so disgusted I sent out a burst of Tweets about it. But since these artic...

The opening titles to the first James Bond film. Excellent on multiple variables. If you don't remember the film, the three blind men ar...

How do we know that ruins ever were "finished" buildings? How do we know that present day squelette-ready sites are not "fini...

"Humans can run, but frankly, it would be futile to do so." And there endeth the lesson on another object case in the futility of ...

I'm really tired, so I'm not going to write anywhere near as much as I could. But I want to say simply that this NYT Books article a...

So here's a "future of publishing" wrinkle to throw out into the sloppy pool of the Internet: The eminent Bruce Sterling has w...