I used to work for a very large survey company. They conduct phone surveys, mail surveys, in-person surveys, and they gather data automatically using various gadgets, apps, and plug-ins. They gather a
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Geek Social Fallacy #1: Ostracizers Are Evil GSF1 is one of the most common fallacies, and one of the most deeply held. Many geeks have had horrible, humiliating, and formative experiences with ostrac
There was nothing more to be done. I carefully closed all open windows, quit all open apps, and selected “Shut Down” from the Apple menu. This almost never happens. You’re nodding and thinking “Oh, be
For 3-4 months now I have been meaning to write a post reviewing and reacting to some of the podcasts I’ve been listening to on Dan Benjamin’s 5by5 network . It was going to be a mix of both admiration and critique, and blah blah blah; you know. But, in the last few weeks I’ve found that I now only…
Vilified, disregarded and worshipped in equal measure, Alien 3 is one of the most divisive franchise movies of all time. On its 20th anniversary Andrew Stimpson revaluates David Fincher's troubled dir
Aurich Lawson Windows 8 arrives No support? No problem! Installing Windows 8 on a Mac with Boot Camp Windows 8 basics: Tips, tricks, and cures Going to work with Windows 8 Enterprise Microsoft sold 4
Keren posed an interesting question on the blog recently: “What is your opinion of the whole ‘princesses are bad for little girls’ argument,” she asked. I think that it’s not the princesses who are the problem—it’s the plot in which they always seem to get stuck. As much as we’ve all grown up with…
This week marks a year since the death of Steve Jobs — a year that has changed my life in many ways with at least two of those ways yet to be announced. The anniversary seems to be an excuse for anyon
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1. “I anthropomorphize for living,” I sometimes say to strangers, with just enough pretentiousness I can get away with. I’d hope. But there’s a grain of truth in every joke. Sometimes I suspect that e
The Bike Shed August 15, 2012 Volume 10, issue 8 PDF A Generation Lost in the Bazaar Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it. Poul-Henning Kamp Thirteen years ago, Eric Raymond's book
I thought about this one for a couple of years, then wrote it up, and left it untouched for another couple of years. What prompted me to publish it now – at least the first, relatively finished part –
Posterous Spaces Posterous Spaces is no longer available Thanks to all of my @posterous peeps. Y'all made this a crazy ride and it was an honor and pleasure working with all of y'all. Thanks to all of
image by Sarah Handelman I suppose most girls remember when they became aware of themselves as specifically female viewers. Growing up in the eighties, I watched movies about boys and girls with equal
When the Macintosh was launched in 1984, computers running the MS-DOS operating system were nearing a dominant position in the market. Having launched in 1981 as the IBM PC, they were quickly cloned a
Taylor Clark writes about why he called most games “dumb,” exhorting us to make them smarter. His main criticisms are around aspects like story, characters, “insipid dialogue,” and the like (when you
Panasonic now have a new “marketing number” : 2000Hz and 2500Hz Focused Field Drive. I’m trying to understand what that mean and here is the result of my investigation. Let’s get back to Plasma 101. T
To the average user, the two new security technologies coming to OS X this year—sandboxing and Gatekeeper—should be virtually invisible. But they could be all too visible to more advanced users, parti
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For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I’ve written two books and a c
laurie kalmanson Feb 13, 2012 the upside down pyramid is really rightside up: awesome.also: reward good behavior, do not tolerate bad behavior. Dave Pinsen Feb 13, 2012 I worked at a bank years ago th
Is it time to get rid of the Linux OS model in the cloud? Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 9:15AM You program in a dynamic language, that runs on a JVM, that runs on a OS designed 40 years ago for a comp
This is not a review of the Adventures of Tintin. I think we can all agree there have been enough of those already. My primary interest in checking out Tintin was to see the animation approach taken by Steven Spielberg and New Zealand animation studio Weta (as well as Giant Studios, which handled…
This article first appeared in Palo Alto Patch. My neighbor, Steve Jobs, has been in the news lately. The talk of the town is the recent announcement he will be stepping aside to let other seeds grow
I’m pretty excited about most of the enhancements in OS X Lion, and in Safari 5.1, which was released along with it. But one of the most annoying changes in the version of Safari that ships with Lion
Where Do Dwarf-Eating Carp Come From? Self-portrait by Tarn Adams, left, using characters from his game. Right, Zach Adams. Tarn Adams was in the carpeted spare bedroom that serves as his work space,
Sir Michael Caine is having one of the stranger days of his life. It’s Valentine’s Day in New York, and in a large, swirly-carpeted auditorium, Sir Michael, flown in specially from London, is being in
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