Gordon's Notes

One of the reasons I was able to let go of The Economist as its quality deteriorated was that I could turn to the many excellent blogs I rea...

Tom Friedman, a pompous windbag who's also a billionaire by marriage, is taken down style. Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque - Hideous Kink...

Unconcsious in about 30 seconds, but no irreversible damage if rescued within 2 minutes . Considering one has only about 6-9 minutes in wate...

Daring Fireball has a f unny and insightful essay on the reaction of Palm CEO Ed Colligan to the Apple iPhone rumors . I go with the theory ...

It's not often that a research results gives me goosebumps. This one did, since I'd completely missed that spindle neurons had previ...

A small inquiry leads, as usual, to a bigger story. Our outdoor christmas tree lights (Bethlehem Lighting commercial grade tangle-free light...

I often update old posts with new information for future reference, but I don't usually call attention to them. In this case I added eno...

Joel Spolsky is a former Microsoftie with fond memories of the old company, certified very smart guy, and CEO of a boostrapped software comp...

A former KGB agent and enemy of Putin has apparently died of Polonium poisoning. The KGB and Putin are the obvious suspects. Why would they ...

An article in today's NYT fit well with a draft post from March 2006, so I'll put them together here. What we see here is that Artif...

This is how GOP Senator Hagel tries to cover the retreat: Chuck Hagel - Leaving Iraq, Honorably - washingtonpost.com There will be no victor...

Interesting variant on the ubiquitous outsourcing story... Good Morning Silicon Valley: Not so much "thanks" as "whew!" ...

I've just completed another of my recurrent surveys of the state of children's software for OS X and Windows. The best I could find ...

Slashdot has an unusually good submission on populism and voting patterns in the Netherlands (emphases mine): Slashdot | Web-Based Assistant...

Salon has quite a catalog of GOP dirty electoral tricks from the past few months. Lest we forget ... The GOP's dirty deeds of 2006 | Sal...