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2013
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Mar
08
Taking Daylight Saving Time to Extremes
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2012
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Dec
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Aug
05
Autocorrect, Unexpurgated
“Even misspelled, a certain word may not appear in The New York Times. So for …”
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Jun
03
Harald Bluetooth? Really?
“I wrote this—Inescapably Connected—eleven years ago. There was no such thing as “iPhone.” Bluetooth and …”
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May
11
Meta Enough for You?
“For the Annals of Recursion.
1. In The Information (pages 408–409, for those who wish to …” |
Feb
23
A Paradox? A Paradox!
“In his wonderful new book Zona (“A Book about a Film about a Journey to a …”
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2011
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Dec
26
Babbage: a Birthday Postscript
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Nov
10
The Flinging of Notes
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Oct
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Sep
08
Secret No More: Google and Power
“Just last month, in an essay for the New York Review, I wrote the following …”
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Aug
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Jul
17
Touching History: Addendum
“In a little essay in The Times (which you can read here or there) I …”
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Jun
27
When You Can’t Find the Perfect Quotation
“I’m reading some Edgar Allan Poe tales in anticipation of an outdoor discussion tomorrow in …”
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Message in an Interstellar Bottle
5 comments
10
Gone Obsolete: Your Mother’s Maiden Name
9 comments
04
In an Appliance Store, 1960
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May
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Apr
24
Glimpse of the Past
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20
Your Whereabouts, Revealed
3 comments
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Where Are They Now: Bell Labs
4 comments
15
Face Direction of Travel
1 comments
06
Information is How We Know
“When Kevin Kelly interviewed me about The Information for Wired, he asked me to …”
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The Google Books Settlement, R.I.P.
“Many people, including some I greatly respect, are gleeful about the demise of the arduously …”
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Mar
29
Ta! Ra! Ra! Boom De Yay!
“Poetry or doggerel? Oh, who cares. John Horgan has unearthed and now presents some verse …”
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Now Chaos Is “Enhanced”
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We shed as we pick up …
1 comments
07
The Information Age Is Older Than You Think
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Published today: The Information
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Feb
24
Does Technology Ever Die?
6 comments
23
“Don’t tell me about microfilm!”
5 comments
15
Got Numbers?
1 comments
14
You Flatter Me! But You Are a Spambot
“As I am new to blogging (or at least to blog maintenance), I am having …”
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The Cover
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05
Google v Bing: The Hiybbprqag Affair
1 comments
Just a little weather
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Jan
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Art for the Mind’s Eye
1 comments
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A meme joke from Steve Martin
“In his new novel, An Object of Beauty:
“Paintings,” he said, “are Darwinian. They drift toward …” 12
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04
Trademark Madness
“There are not enough names to go around.
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2010
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Dec
31
27
That Rogue Accent
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22
Mandelbrot Farewell
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17
All the Words in All the Books
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12
What makes what? Help, please.
13 comments
09
The very word
2 comments
08
The Humiliation of Mr. Martin
1 comments
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Nov
30
An inscription by Benoit Mandelbrot
1 comments
29
What am I doing?
“I’m not sure yet. Perhaps I’m blogging.
I’ve had a web site here, a “home page,” …” 26
25
Faster (the movie)
1 comments
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My lucky day
“I am in Dear Book Lover. (The question, not the answer.)”
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From Elsewhere
The Word
- Bartlett's Updated
Creating a new edition of a great book of quotations is an adventure in cultural excavation. How did the editors of Bartlett’s do? - If Shakespeare Had Been Able to Google
Regarding obsessiveness about words. - The Death of the Book
Despair and hope.
Cyberspace
- "I Agree"
What rights do you give away when you blithely click that innocent-looking button? - Accounting for Taste
On-line merchants try to read our minds. If we like One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, will we like 10,000 Maniacs? - Inescapable Connected
The rise of the network; the dawn of pervasive computing. - Spam (1)
The Internet’s own Black Plague, as it was in 1996. - Spam (2)
It only got worse.
Looking Back
- Einstein
A profile for the century’s end. - What the Beep?
Our electronic devices were trying to tell us something. But what, and which?
Microsoft
- Chasing Bugs
in the electronic village. - Microspeak
How they talked, and why. - The Microsoft Monopoly
Early (1995) reporting and analysis of the antitrust storm clouds.
Modern Marvels
- A Bug and a Crash
Guess what caused the expensive crash of the Ariane 5 in 1996. And what does it say about software design? - Maintenance Not Included
Batteries and other surprises. - Patently Absurd
The disaster in progress that is the United States patent system.
One More …
- The Doctor's Plot
You don’t believe people are being abducted by aliens, do you? An example of wacky belief mania.