Share Share Reddit 19.6K Shares Ever wonder why you can’t figure out when and where to stick a comma? It’s probably because commas, by far, have more rules and applications than any other punctuation mark. But why do so many people use the semicolon incorrectly? Comparatively, it should be one of…

Most filmmakers are grateful for the support of their audience, but for the past few weeks, Joss Whedon has really been demonstrating his gratitude. Last month, Whedon announced at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of In Your Eyes — the supernatural romance starring Zoe Kazan and Michael…

Damon Lindelof Art Streiber for The New York Times A few months ago, inside a house in Douglaston, Queens, Justin Theroux, the star of the new HBO show “The Leftovers,” was in the kitchen, having his feet blow-dried. Theroux had been shooting a scene in which he had to run outside in the snow in…

Did the Earth start out with two moons? That would explain a lot. http://t.co/6jYfjZVabI via @NautilusMag

Amended Harmful Digital Communications Bill still fatally flawed and a threat to civil liberties: http://t.co/pSVlwbgjhZ

The Atlantic finally explains it: "Why Airplane Food Is So Bad" http://t.co/XTutR60B5M

A lot of keyboards have been strained over the furious typing surrounding the future of the iPad recently. All of these posts seem to be all over the place. Some calling for doom, some (most?) confused, and others saying ‘pshaw, all is good’. I think it would be helpful to look at what the iPad is…

Working from home May 6th, 2014 I’ve been working from home full-time for more than seven years, and running my own business for the same amount of time. Many of us at least have the opportunity to occasionally work from home, and I daresay that many people would like the chance to do so…

For an accessible intro, this blog post from @allspaw is what we’re trying to do in education too. http://t.co/aBuPxuJRdc

Two bodyguards trotted behind Enrique Peñalosa, their pistols jostling in holsters. There was nothing remarkable about that, given his profession – and his locale. Peñalosa was a politician on yet another campaign, and this was Bogotá, a city with a reputation for kidnapping and assassination. What…

If you have time and interest, here's my follow up RSA talk on How to Change Education from the Ground Up http://t.co/KzaZdI5Z9i

It was an unseasonably warm December, and somewhere nearby a rising tide in the San Francisco Bay was lifting all kite-surfers, but Nick Edwards and Chris Monberg were crouched at opposite rented desks in a shared coworking space near the Caltrain station in SoMa wondering if, by the middle of…

The Invention of the AeroPress Priceonomics Source: Stumptown Coffee Among coffee aficionados, the AeroPress is a revelation. A small, $30 plastic device that resembles a plunger makes what many consider to be the best cup of coffee in the world. Proponents of the device claim that drinks made with…

This. OMG This! @jeffknupp writes the rant about 'Full Stack' and 'devops' I've wanted to write for a year now: http://t.co/KZUm5hYPfD …

“If I’m willing to pay $100 for someone to bring me a glass of fresh milk from an Omaha dairy cow right now, there might very well be a guy who would be super happy to do that, but he doesn’t know that I’m the crazy guy who is willing to pay $100.” Bo Fishback was on stage at the “Big Omaha” startup…

Giovanni Bajo wrote somethign about the GPL as a followup to my article: http://t.co/r9hvBoBf64 — worth a read!

We love Wikipedia. The idea of a constantly updated knowledge base where everyone is welcome to read and contribute is staggering, and we dip into this great pool of content on an almost daily basis at 1910. However, having spent the last three years learning more about typography has made us aware…

In our on-going pursuit of trying to improve readability and usability of digital products and services, one thing that’s always struck us as odd is the way typography of email applications has been left untouched since the early days of the internet. Even modern applications released in the post-pc…

The dreaded semicolon. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Ever since Kurt Vonnegut slandered semicolons (“They are transvestite hermaphrodites,” he said, “representing absolutely nothing”), aspiring writers have looked upon them with a mixture of confusion and trepidation. But there is a breed of writer…

For anyone remotely connected to technology, the idea that net neutrality is an unabashed good seems incontrovertible, and one of the most popular examples of why it matters is Netflix. Consumers get a video competitor to their cable provider over said cable provider’s pipes; surely the end of net…

Tech Liberty submission about the Harmful Digital Communications Bill. http://t.co/akqgGadaON

Maroun Najjar 7 min read· Apr 14, 2013 -- Sleep is the Force Multiplier We spend one third of our lives sleeping, it's crucial for muscle recovery, fact retention and preparing the body to operate at full speed the next day, sleep is one of the most important things when it comes to day-to-day…

Count me as a 'Love Actually' hater, but @BenDreyfuss's 3,000-word pro-'Love Actually' manifesto is brilliant: http://t.co/v2kDDjlGCa

As you might have seen about the Internets, Google is making a concerted effort to tie YouTube identities with G+ identities, and this has brought another round of arguments about what the relative harm of this may be—and that in turn always gets into questions of just what identity means on the…

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys Last winter someone gave me a Nexus Android device they got at a Google event. It didn't have phone service so I gave it to my son to play with. He took to it immediately, especially having a mobile…

This series of posts is about enabling sustainable businesses on the App Store. In Part 1, I discuss why Paper and other productivity apps may not be doing as well as you might think. Part 2 explores why casual games, in contrast, are a sustainable business, but not a differentiator for platforms (I…