Gordon's Notes

Yahoo! has been an excellent spam-mail service. I use my Yahoo email whenever I want to avoid spam — such as when I have to deal with Ticket...

The only way I can make sense of the Beats acquisition is to assume that Apple is responding to landscape changes like the end of broadcast ...

I’ve been gnawing on this story for a year or two, figuring that sooner or later a real journalist would solve the mystery for me. That hasn...

Over the past two decades it has become apparent that the knowledge base for clinical medicine has been corrupted by publication bias, posit...

Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...

If you're a longtime user of Google properties, it's not unusual to come across abandoned and neglected properties. Weed infested, b...

Have you ever tried to buy high visibility wind pants? Something in bright orange for example? Good luck with that. Ninja black is the rule...

Everyone expects Apple to soon sell some personal monitoring device like the suspiciously defunct Nike Fuel Band. We remember that the “revo...

I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...

Epistemic closure (in political thought) . Confirmation bias  [6]. Availability heuristic  ( Kahneman System 1 ). Premature cognitive commit...

Via Funny Times  [1], I came across allegations of a confident eugenics program (emphases mine): NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News Beijin...

Dave Foley, who is 67 to my 55, describes what it’s like to run hard as a senior citizen … Silent Sports: Getting along with getting old P...

As a kid I wanted to read the encyclopedia - from A to Z. We couldn’t afford an encyclopedia though , so I had to make do with the dictiona...

I've once again gone through the tricky process of setting up a Virgin Mobile Canada prepaid account  on an unlocked AT&T iPhone. T...

I have the face of a Disney villain . This came to me as a slowly unfolding personal revelation after reading Emily Matchar’s humorous ess...