Gordon's Notes

When did physicists first begin to suspect that what we experience as time emerges from quantum entanglement, much as we experience heat fro...

Between Minnesota and Montreal, across Wisconsin and the UP and along the 17, there are hundreds of communities. Most are a few thousand peo...

A research vessel diverts course to avoid a 9 mile long floating island of volcanic rock : "the raft was already about 15 kilometers (9...

US healthcare costs were 2.6 trillion in 2010 ; about 18% of the 2011 US economy. Of that, dementia care costs about $200 billion , or about...

App.net is almost certainly doomed. Almost no-one believes that a Weibo-like communication service can run at scale other than by advertisin...

This year our family trek took us through Chicago and Detroit. Detroit was more interesting and attractive than we'd expected, but it...

The GOP may have a loose relationship with the falsifiable world, but they're tight where it matters. They have money by the truckload, ...

I was mildly (cough) irked (cough) when Google Reader Shares died. My Pinboard/IFTTT/Twitter/WordPress replacement works better than it ough...

My most loyal commenter (that's you Martin) tells me he can't solve Google's CAPTCHAs any more. Neither can I. I responded ... I...

One day I looked up and saw an empty space where some pay phones were. I knew then I had to get a mobile phone. More recently, I knew the po...

Matt Honan was thoroughly hacked, including having his iCloud link computers obliterated [1], because our net security infrastructure is com...

The weather is unusual, but is the climate truly different?  How would we know? I toss a fair coin 10 times. Which of these patterns is mor...

The Google-Apple war continues, but it's dwarfed by the wireless war that started when Verizon and ATT used price signaling to become Ve...

I finally read the entire How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo Vanity Fair article. It's worth a read for all geeks over 40, despite some obviou...

(and now for something completely different). I made  my most recent Apple store trip  by bicycle. Before I set out I tried to find a bike ...