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The Boston in Me
The horrible events at this year’s Boston Marathon have put me in a melancholy mood, and I turned to MetaFilter to make better sense of the senseless tragedy. After reading the thousand-or-so comments that came before, I said (in...
Correction on the Usefuless of Torture
I recently overheard someone explaining that intelligence acquired by means of torture was crucial in determining the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, which determination led to bin Laden’s death by US armed forces. This lie must be exposed as...
Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
Lunchtime Shell Game on 38 Geary
On Thursday, 13 May, a few of the tech team»and HR« at my work took cabs to Dong Baek, located in the Tenderloin’s northeastern section.1 John Jonathon Leslie Jeffrey Sung Jack Lunch was great, better than I expected.2 I...
Obama Administration Warns About Using Information Devices Which Have Produced the Most Widely Distributed Publishing Platform in Human History
I really want this thing to work out with President Obama. He’s smart. He’s a constitutaional scholar. His adminstration has taken steps to advance the welfare of US citizens and the welfare of people worldwide. So I don’t get...
Instant Gratification: Saving Web Bookmarks Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe
I’ve been working with Save PDF to Yojimbo and Yojimbo Collection From Front Window for just a little over a month and I’ve experienced some weird glitches. The most difficult of these glitches seems to happen when I have...
Saving Web Documents Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe
As a former academic and currently unaffiliated researcher, I feel fairly compelled to meticulously and comprehensively document my reading, including my online web reading. Years ago, I made the shift to RSS and began using client-side bookmarking software and...
Hooked Through the Eye
I feel like a musky with all the fight gone out of him.»Jackson, Gordon. “Billy’s Girl.” Robert Shapard Ed. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories. 1st ed. Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith, 1986: 180.« Last night I told one of...
Rumored Apple Tablet and the Rumored Future of Print
The hype machine is cranked to frenzy and the air is smokey after the Apple’s latest burst, Come see our latest creation. The more perspicacious among us are connecting dots»via« between Apple’s product announcement and the New York Time’s...
The Demise of Naiveté
This time of year is always a mixed bag for me. I grew up in a largely Korean household which practiced no distinct holiday traditions. Christmas gift-giving was limited mainly to adults giving gifts to the children. The season...
AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega Should Be Fired
Not just Ralph de la Vega, but the whole layer of management that reports to de la Vega regarding corporate strategy, public relations, product development, and consumer sales should be fired.1 Besides the obvious hint at a future grab-for-cash...
Problems with Snow Leopard Finder File Sizes
With Snow Leopard, Finder started reporting file sizes in base-10 rather than base-2. This means that when 10.6 users install a 500 GB hard drive, Finder will report that there are 500 GB available on the drive. The practical...
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