Gordon's Notes

TIDBits publishes a terrific extended essay on digital photo post-processing . These are the AdSense AdWords that show up in the full text...

Charles Stross is in good form with an essay on the post-PC world . It’s the world we’ve been expecting since Netscape Constellation (1996) ...

When Sarah Palin bloviates, the media goes mad. When a South Korean military vessel blows up, perhaps from a North Korean missile, things ge...

To the right of us – Greece, Portugal, Spain and perhaps Italy and Ireland (GPSII): How Reversible Is The Euro- - Paul Krugman Blog - ...

Charlie Stross has been writing a series of enlightening posts about the fiction industry . Today, after a volcano extended killer road tri...

A few weeks ago I said Farewell Palm . Now HP has paid $1.2 billion in cash to acquire Palm ($5.70 a share). It's good news for those w...

I've noted that the iPad will be a computer for people who are poor . I've predicted that Apple will turn on Facebook (their friend...

Act One: Obama and the the Middle Eas t Cohen - Beating the Mideast’s Black Hole - NYTimes.com .... That meeting concluded with Mitchell...

Melvyn and Shula do not have the best chemistry in during the In Our Time program The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation . I can see why Melv...

CrashPlan gets great press and even a Tidbits Take Control recommendation, but when I used it I ran into numerous fundamental flaws. Clear...

In Greg Egan's Teranesia [1]  one story I can't currently locate (h/t Mel Anderson, comments), the protagonist is fighting the ul...

Our brains burn a lot of the calories we eat [1]. So are knowledge workers working out? Alas, probably not ... Appraising the brain's en...

Something has changed over the past year with our iPhone voice services around our home (Macalester-Groveland, St Paul, Minnesota) and, to a...

When we think about science, most of us think of dramatic breakthroughs. We think Darwin and Wallace, Einstein and Bohr, Copernicus and Curi...

My kids need some typing software. I remember a "Broderbund" "Mavis Beacon" product from eons past, so I started looking...