Gordon's Notes

It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...

I’m a liberal of Hume an descent, and I’m a fan of Donald Trump. No, not because Trump is humiliating the GOP, though he is. Of course I en...

I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...

Biologists study evolutionary "strategies", such as r and K selection . These are the strategies deployed the Great Programmer as...

Krugman is famously dismissive about claims of structural aspects to underemployment (though years ago he wasn't as sure). DeLong, I thi...

Emily and I were wondering what business purpose coupons serve. They make brand price comparison labor intensive and hence unaffordable for ...

I tend to think bad driving is contagious. Not contagious as in passed from parent to child , but contagious as in a short-lived virus passe...

RSS is history. We know that. It's been replaced by ... by ....  Right. Whatever is going to replace Feeds (RSS/Atom) hasn't quite ...

In our world billions of dollars are spent trying to get us to read and click ads. Billions. So why are the ads so crappy? Google, w...

This Telegraph article is primarily about a Hansen lecture on humanity's failure to think rationally about climate change, but I found t...

Google is dead to us . Dead to we who admired, even liked, the Google of Schmidt and Brin. I read Google's blogs, but they bore me. I u...

In November of 2001 British Telecomunications published a white paper prepared by two futurists - Ian Pearson and Ian Neild. It's a bit ...

Unsurprisingly, given the current state of the GOP presidential primary, people who'd prefer to vote GOP are advocating third party equi...

I read Charlie Stross's Rule 34 . Here's my 5 star Amazon review (slightly modified as I thought of a few more things): Rule 34 is...

We've always had crazy fads in medicine. I fell for a few when I had wet ears. Magnesium Sulfate post-MI is the one I remember best. Th...

Memory is just a story we believe . I remember that when I was on a city bus, and so perhaps 8 years old, a friend showed me a "librar...

I've been chattering for a few years about the rise of  mass disability and the role of RCIIT (India, China, computers, networks) in t...

One of the reasons I blog is to engage with a fascinating world, and to track the streams of history. I'm finding that harder to do....

GigaOm has a longish cloud computing post around a Peachtree Capital Advisors investor survey (full report is by request only). I usually do...

Forbes ... The Google Reader Redesign is an Ugly, Lonely User Experience - Ed Kain - Forbes ... On the overall changes as well as the unh...