Gordon's Notes

In the past few weeks I've been fighting a two front software war. On the one hand,  iPhoto 8 and Aperture 3 , on the other hand digitiz...

Salmon was pissed that Summers, an ultra-wealthy beneficiary of government service, was considered a candidate for the World Bank. He prefer...

It helps if you think of humans as biological robots with varying programming ... Politics, Odors and Soap - Kristof - NYTimes.com ... “T...

Just for fun. It turned this up while sorting through some old photos. I took the picture when I was discarding some obsolete gear. Note the...

A US Army sergeant murders16 men, women and children -- and all we hear about is his personal hardship. This would be enlightened progress...

Speaking as a physician, and as someone who was involved in a genomics project two years ago, I find this astounding. It's a snapshot of...

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

Life in the empire of the Kims: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | Books | The Guardian ... The South Korean governmen...

As I scrape rubbery solids from the nozzle of my Colgate toothpaste I remember that the meme of daily toothpaste use was one of the great ac...

I don't think we'll actually get to DRM  RetinaLock (retinal enhancements enforce video DRM), but we are pretty much at the "P...

Saddam Hussein, we are told, knew that his weapons of mass destruction were no longer effective. He might not have understood how completely...

William Johnson is one of those teachers we prize, the best of the best, teachers who choose to work with difficult children. Unsurprisingl...

Six years ago, I mourned for the demise of t he last good toaster . I could find lots of cheap toasters, but they didn't last long. It ...

Last year I bought MLB.com's At Bat for something like $10 or $15. Then it was an "App". That meant, based on Apple's Fair...

I'm staying at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel for the Strata 2012 conference. It has some good features, but, for a geek, it has a problem. T...