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November 2013

November 13, 2013
The New York Times rounded up some opinions from authors about the effect of modern...
November 10, 2013
So this odd thing appeared in my Facebook feed yesterday, originating here, and my first...
November 10, 2013
In his review of the iPad Air, Nilay Patel longs for Apple to make the...
November 09, 2013
The aliens of Star Trek get a bit of grief for looking suspiciously like homo...
November 04, 2013
I originally thought of the iPad as a kind of novelty; a neat toy for...
November 02, 2013
There are many things to criticize about Apple and its practices. For example, it's not...
November 02, 2013
It's been kind of a rough parenting week. The baby, at 15 months old, is...

October 2013

October 31, 2013
John Gruber on the transition of the iPad from "tablet-computer" to "computer": I can tell...
October 30, 2013
Let go of regrets, I am told. They are purposeless, serving as an unnecessary and...
October 21, 2013
Thomas Frank pores over the literature on creativity, and pins down its themes, motivations, and...
October 20, 2013
I have written previously and with great despair of my (eventual?) surrender to sleep. By...
October 19, 2013
I've never read a Jonathan Franzen novel, and I've been inclined to maintain that status...
October 18, 2013
Ilya Somin kind of blew my mind with this piece at Cato's website, and it...
October 17, 2013
Alex Payne helps me understand what really differentiates the ideas behind iOS and Android: Everything...
October 15, 2013
Jed Groettum watched these shows so you don't have to. Law & Order: SVU: A...
October 15, 2013
If you don't want to have your mug showing up all over the Web, appearing...
October 12, 2013
I'm definitely very glad that I began the Obcast. For years I'd toyed with the...
October 11, 2013
Remember how I was all, hey Google, I don't use Google+ and Google Now all...
October 11, 2013
There is a theme gaining traction in some of the writing I've come across lately,...
October 08, 2013
I woke in a bed. In a room. In an inn. More than that was...
October 07, 2013
Jeff Jarvis: . . . I have long believed that the real job of journalism...
October 04, 2013
On This Week in Google, Mike Elgan, as is his wont, expounded upon the reasons...
October 03, 2013
I've asked this question on Twitter a number of times, but no one will respond,...
October 02, 2013
This story about an out-of-the-blue attack in Riverside Park by a guy with scissors, slashing...
October 02, 2013
Henry Porter, like me, can't believe the U.S. populace puts up with its gun insanity...

September 2013

September 28, 2013
A little while ago I posted about Claude S. Fischer's piece exploring the phenomena of...
September 24, 2013
September 23, 2013
Before I even start this post, I want to be clear: I really, really like...
September 20, 2013
As you might already know, as horrible as we humans are to each other, we...
September 19, 2013
Blah blah really long iPhone reviews blah blah. Who cares, 'cause I'm not upgrading this...
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