Gordon's Notes

Once upon a time tobacco companies distributed abundant free samples. It's a good business model when you're selling an addictive pr...

Victory: The war against 20th century psychiatric diagnoses is all but won . It's been a long time coming, this rebellion has roots goin...

Brad DeLong, my favorite economist, has published the latest edition of his annual Econ 1 Berkeley: September 29 2010 Economic Growth Lectur...

Chinese, for a time, will pass English as a net language . The authors imply that a predictable course, but they forget that the world's...

David Pogue writes today about affordable, bigger-than-pocketable, cameras with reasonable ISO 800 images . That made me think about how the...

Which animal is biggest? Smallest? Fastest? Good questions, and there are lots of answers. It's the sort of thing we talk about over br...

A post on  why Facebook, Netflix and Amazon will join the Google-Apple truce reminded me it's time to update Gordon's 15 point scal...

The Google-Apple war officially ended in September . I've not seen any convincing explanation of why the war ended; my best guess is tha...

It's not new, but it's still awesome to see Hans Rosling demo the Trendanalyzer wealth/mortality graph . It's a great antidote t...

Google Ngram Viewer . Awesome. The frequency of the word "dementia" spiked in the period 1870-1885. It then rose gradually to 192...

Google has a kid problem. The latest example is the new  Google eBooks iOS app . It seemed like a good option for my kids iOS devices. Prob...

During the Bush years I found solace in the ironic writings of  Jon Swift . He didn't write every day, so I didn't notice when he st...

Tor's Jo Walton is reviewing the Hugo Awards Nominees -- starting in 1953.  I started reading science fiction in the 1960s, so many of ...

Not surprising ... Michael Tsai - Blog - Yahoo Shuts Down Delicious : Delicious was a good service, and I’m sorry to see all the data and...

In the 90s I taught physicians how to use the Internet. It gave me an excuse to attend Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and American A...