Gordon's Notes

Remember when Apple made ads about ripping CDs? iTunes and the iPod made it elegantly easy [1]. The ads were coy but clear -- wink, wink ste...

When I was a child, I read Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock ... ... Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous struc...

There are a lot of bolts on my bike and they're always yearning to be free.  Last week it was a brake lever than went from a bit wiggly...

Stagflation was a catchy way to describe the economics of the Vietnam war West: Stagflation, a portmanteau of stagnation and inflation, i...

This is the The Cabinet  of the executive branch of the USA (slashes mine) Department of State Department of the Treasury Department of...

Facebook Reasserts Posts Can Be Used to Advertise . So if I click "Like" on a new offering by Encyclopedia Britannica, my Facebook...

Apple has quietly reintroduced something I've wanted even before CARE.ORG broke our deal and sold us out to the donation industry. They...

My 16yo is having his wisdom teeth removed tomorrow. Blame it on human domestication. The Economist explains the process . Domestication, w...

The AHA's new guidelines tell us anyone with a 10 yr risk of MI over 7.5% should be on Statins. I ran the  10-Year Risk Calculator Res...

The Philippines has been hit by a very powerful storm. Thousands are dead and more will die, suffering will be extensive and long lasting. (...

For an old school technology geek, reared on local file stores and data cables and file formats and backups and (ugh) synchronization , the...

These projects almost certainly exist, either or kickstarter or some design document, but I'll share them anyway. No rights reserved - e...

I've been idly looking for a solution to the blog backlog problem. Lately I've seen others looking for the same thing , so I'm e...

Imagine it's April 2014. Winter is fading, the days are getting longer. The Tea Party is in its cave, licking wounds and sharpening kniv...

Ok, I don't need the stream of scams that keep daytime television on life support, but I do need something. The problem is I've got...