Gordon's Notes

Is Stephen Hawking disabled? Obviously this is a rhetorical question. Hawking is 70 and retired from the Lucasian chair, but he remains a ...

It's not just the Mayan lunacy afflicting China and Russia. It's also the  Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk  and T...

We tax cigarettes to offset some of the social costs of tobacco use. This is type of  Pigovian Tax . We could tax bullets to offset the dir...

Google killed Reader Shares on October 31, 2011 ... Gordon's Notes: Dapocalypse now: Google's day of infamy I shared thousands of...

Since the election we've received a nightly phone call with a Caller ID of MN DFL party and a return number of 651-251-6300. As others h...

KPCB annual internet trends presentation is online . KPCB does this yearly under the "Meeker" brand. The online version isn't ...

Few people will have noticed new rules around corporate "health-contingent wellness programs" (emphases mine): Administration De...

There have been a flurry of articles lately on the cost of raising an American child, including a NYT blog post . This old news to students ...

The American Economic Review tells us large corporations are taking up a larger share of our GDP ... The American Economic Review, Vol. 21...

My prediction for 2013 - the American Right will effectively drop Climate Change Denialism by April of 2013. They'll never admit it of c...

It's been two years since  I first looked at XMind . During that time I used MindManager at work and experimented with MindNode Pro at ...

I had to update to iOS 6 sooner or later, and I knew that meant the Podcast app. Still, a small part of me hoped that that it wasn't as...

I don't often pull down my posts for a rewrite, but this one was up for a few hours before I took it down for a rework. Here's the r...

Update: I got an unexpected Apple email requesting I send a scanned receipt and bank information to get my iMac drive replacement refund. I ...

When I travel for business I want to have a personal device with a keyboard and 1024+ horizontal resolution i n addition to my obligatory c...