I have learned just in the last couple of days that there is some guy named “LeBron” who is apparently some sports figure. He is in the spotlight about something, probably having to do, directly or indirectly, with money. At least one large ego may be involved. Don’t know, don’t [...]
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Advertising is designed, by purpose, to make you discontented enough to buy something to relieve the stress. Improve your life by creating ad-free zones where the minions of Madison Avenue cannot find [...] For some time I’ve been working off and on with my old friends at Iron Crown Enterprises on a new online game written for Facebook users. The game is called Hot Money and it is “a challenging game of corporate and political intrigue and the pursuit of fame, riches and glory.” It is also highly [...] I was intrigued to see an interesting article on the website of American Scientist magazine about the problem of the volatility of the data that narrates our civilization. The article, “Avoiding a Digital Dark Age” by Kurt Bollacker describes in detail several examples of how our high-tech world fails to imbue our information stream with [...] Before we get started, a huge “Thank You” to Johnna Cornett who reworked Cogito! into this nifty new look. Also a big thanks to my wife, Denise, who took the photo in the masthead during a trip to Acadia National Park in Maine. Historians of science in general and paleontology in particular will recall the cautionary [...] A couple of weeks ago the New York Times ran an opinion piece by Virginia Heffernan entitled “Let Them Eat Tweets: Why Twitter is a Trap“. This article was, in turn, a response to a presentation by author and idea man extraordinaire Bruce Sterling at the South by Southwest conference. In his talk he held [...] Amazon’s second generation Kindle, the D00511. Recent months have seen an increase of posts and news items on the coming eBook revolution. This way of delivering books has been a bit slower to catch on than proponents had hoped. The Amazon Kindle reader was touted as the solution to the many reasons why readers weren’t taking [...] A moment of epiphany for me was when I realized that there was something inherently wrong with professional sports. It wasn’t steroids or the incessant hype or the fixation on statistics down to the molecular level. It was the realization that there is something fundamentally wrong with paying someone to do your playing for you. Now [...] As I slouch from middle age to full-on geezerdom I appreciate more and more the implied license one has to be a curmudgeon. It comes in especially handy if you aren’t by nature an “early adopter”. It took me until well into 2000 to finally buy a cell phone, for instance. Audio CDs didn’t make [...] When I heard the news that Israel was once again sending its military might against the people of Gaza, I suddenly remembered something I had heard on the radio a little over a year ago. I was working on some small project at a small workbench I’ve set up in our garage. I had my laptop [...] |
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