Month: July 2005

In “Lost in Translation: IA Challenges in Distributing Digital Audio,” Boxes and Arrows (June 15, 2005), Dan Brown writes On the other hand, a virtu...

One of the considerations with the location of a house is which school district it is in. In some states, determining the school district is easy: it’s co...

National Geographic has an excellent documentary based on Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel now playing on PBS. I suggest telling the TiVo to catch i...

I spent the majority of today installing an enterprise-class document management system’s client. Now, I get a request to file my request for x electronic...

Can you imagine a world where the supply does not respond to the demand? I can. It’s called in-house software.

John Lienhard, in his essay Fusang, talks about the Chinese discovery of the Americas. The Chinese were very isolationist, 1500 years ago. China thought the out...

Is procrastination a learned behavior, or genetic?

I have to wonder in what world industry analysts live. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article on broadband prices’ dropping to dial-up levels discusses th...

We should have such children! And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my work...

Rick Ochoa pointed out Planarity, a simple game by John Tantalo at Case-Western Reserve University. All you have to do is align the vertices so that no edges ov...

Via Ernie the Attorney we find that the Congresscritters have the mistaken impression that they are there to do something. In the instant case, it’s H. R....

Joe Gregorio‘s post, A World Made of (Well-Designed) Cities, points to two interesting pieces: Tim O’Reilly’s reprint of a Stewart Brand lectu...

I’ve come up with what I hope is a practical application of podcasting: love notes. Secretly download the new version of iTunes and subscribe to the love ...

Via Eric Hancock, I learn that Apple appears to be caching podcasts. This is a damn fine idea. Eric wonders, It should be relatively easy for Apple to allow pub...