Nov
23rd
Mon
23rd
Picks and finds from Erica Tesla. Little elaboration here, kiddies; if you're looking for that, go to my blog. I largely post stuff here to distribute stuff to friends - stuff that otherwise I'd forget to IM them (or whatever) - or to save it for me, for later. Yes, I am so scatterbrained I have to blog stuff to myself.
Nov
22nd
Sun
22nd
An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.
— Apple’s Mistake (via Instapaper)
Nov
20th
Fri
20th
Why Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh should say as little as possible when they meet in Washington next week.
Nov
19th
Thu
19th
Current computer design lets you see lots of information at once. You can have many open windows and a blizzard of indicators to tell you just about anything you would ever want to know about your computer. However, a desktop isn’t an airplane cockpit. No one dies if your wifi drops from four bars to three. Instead, we’ve crossed the line from utility to continuous partial attention.
Nov
16th
Mon
16th
An old saw in science fiction is that a sci-fi writer can take the automobile and the movie theater and predict the drive-in. But the drive-in is dead, and the echoes of its social consequences are fading to negligibility; on the other hand, the fact that the automobile was responsible for the first form of widely carried photo ID and is thus the progenitor of the entire surveillance state went unremarked-upon by “predictive” sci-fi.
Oct
12th
Mon
12th
Aug
25th
Tue
25th
You -must- read this whole thing. It’s amazing. And now I’m contemplating spending several thousand dollars on dinner for two in Spain. (via Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the World - The Amateur Gourmet)
