Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance 1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget…

Making online social games 2007-2009 by Justin Hall Between 2007 and 2009 GameLayers made a multiplayer game across all the content of the internet. I was the CEO of GameLayers and one of three co-founders. Here I'll share lessons and data from this online social game startup. This Story of…

In 2002, Apple Inc. opened its first non-mall retail store, in an old post office in New York’s SoHo neighborhood. The late Herbert Muschamp, the New York Times’ architecture critic, called the store’

Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live By Jeff Jarvis (Simon & Schuster, 263 pp., $26.99) In 1975, Malcolm Bradbury published The History Man, a piercing satire of the narcissistic pseudo-intellectualism of modern academia. The novel recounts a year in the…

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Bret Victor / April 11, 2011 The power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols. When most people speak of Math, what they have in mind is more its mechanism than its essence. This "Math" consists…

Environmentalists are always talking about the things people can do to be more environmentally friendly. But what I don’t understand is why we have to make all the effort, while Mother Nature just sits back and does nothing in return?. Last time I checked, friendship was a two-way street. That is…

This is the easiest product review I’ve ever written. The iPhone 4S is exactly what Apple says it is: just like the iPhone 4, but noticeably faster, with a significantly improved camera, and an impressive new voice-driven feature called Siri. Siri Siri feels like old-school Apple. Newton-esque, at…

Someday, there will be a snappy acronym for the period we’re living though, but right now — three years after the crash of 2008 — American life is a blurry, scratched-out page that’s hard to read. Some Americans have recovered, or at least stabilized, from the Great Recession. Corporate profits are…

The Days Inn in Clarksburg, West Virginia has earned five “sunbursts,” an indicator that it has fulfilled Corporate’s highest quality assurance standards. At its front desk, a sign states that if you live within a 50-mile radius of the hotel, your business is no good there. I asked the receptionist…

Jump to main navigationJump to main content Hope your Thanksgiving is pleasant and that it gives you pause to dwell on being thankful. Personally, I give thanks for Erica Strange. Oh it’s so true. Every year about this time I return to gaze at Erica Strange (Erin Karpluk) on Being Erica (CBC, 9…

All last week across the media landscape, in pod, blog, flat-screen, and crunkly old newsprint columns, fatuous professional observers complained that the Occupy Wall Street marchers "have no clear agenda" or "can't articulate their positions." What impertinent horseshit. I saw a statement on one…

So, Mad Men’s over now for another season. And we have a brand-new wife to hate! Hurrah! You guys, I am sure she is going to be so much worse than we can even plan for. And then we will get to write about the not-so-coded misogyny involved in how she is awful. But before we do that, we should talk…