Gordon's Notes

The Dark Side of the Milky Way (Sci Am) tells us that what we perceive as a warping and twisting of the galactic plane is a massive wave of...

This Andrew Lewis meme surfaced on the net about a year ago:  If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product . Lewis has since ha...

This  Doonesbury is a keeper, but it's incomplete. It's not just that corporations and their investor owners (me, you, etc) value ...

The paleolithic is the time of the pre-historic hominid tool user. It begins 2.6 million years ago with Australopithecine-like hominid tool...

It's a mantra in my world --  Concentrate on People and Process, not Tools .  It's not the tools, it's the process. Bah, humbu...

This is, on the one hand, a very local story. Local, that is, to my neighborhood of Macalester-Groveland, Saint Paul, Minnesota. On the oth...

Netflix is getting out of the messy, labor intensive, business of mailing physical DVDs. Now they are purely digital. They won't need po...

John Hawks and Dienekes have excellent posts on research that emphasizes the churn and chaos of the melding of the sentient apes into one ...

My paper magazine has another article on the Argentinification of America -  Can the Middle Class Be Saved? - The Atlantic . I'll skim ...

Amidst a flurry of sensational coverage, the BBC gets special credit for the headline and the quote (emphases mine) ... BBC News - Speed-o...

My blogs are pseudonymous, but it's not hard to find my true name if you click around a bit. I just prefer that my corporate colleagues ...

Rebecca Rosen asks Is Facebook Forever ? Of course in our world "forever" is any double digit lifespan. I might like to think Face...

Google's  Yonatan Zunger implies there's life in Google Reader yet ... Yonatan Zunger - Google+ - Some more tips and tricks for u...

I've cycled with cars for over 40 years. These days I commute by car most days, by bike weekly. This is what I believe ... My idyllic...

It shows up on mugs, posters and greeting cards . To thine own self be true must have a pleasing sound to contented psychopaths. I assumed...