Leonard and I were reading a really interesting comments thread comparing the advantages of tech publishing models in the middle of last week. Against all odds, it stayed almost entirely informative, polite, and well-written. Then: …
"The Mahabharata" at Wikipedia: Arjuna's grandson Parikishit rules after them and dies bitten by a snake. His furious son, Janamejaya, decides to perform a sacrifice in which to kill all the snakes. It is at …
"[Mr. Rogers] did tell me that he considered the space between the television set and the viewer holy ground..." "...[I] saw that my son's eyes were darting, the way they do when he is nervous. …
The New Underground Railroad. Funny how Jane gets distributed.
Every day I give thanks that the strength of the prejudice that led to Gentleman's Agreement (1947) has let down. Yeah, almost everyone's prejudiced in various ways, but it's not as bad as it was. …
Steve Schultz has moved from Tokyo to the Berkeley Hills, and has started a new blog. Obviously some [elided] bureaucrat in some badly lit room punched some buttons on a computer and now I am …
This week, my MC Masala column talks about the trouble with directness. In software development, you find certain pairs of goals are aligned, like localization and internationalization. And some are opposed, like permissions systems and …
Make (the magazine) could have sister publications Do and Think, with a yearly compilation entitled Be. I have a huge constellation of thoughts about initiative, harshness, arrogance, stereotypical geek qualities, and vulnerability rolling around in …
The Domenech plagiarism scandal has been a field day for Salon, and a more hilarious one than its other recent scoop (censored torture photos from Abu Ghraib (in which they made efforts to protect the …
