April 2011
“A 75-year-old Georgian woman is facing jail time after she accidentally sliced...”
– Georgia Woman, 75, Charged With Cutting Off Armenia From The Internet
“With the midterm elections now over, most of us are relieved to be free of the...”
– Above quote is from a post by Gabe Zichermann on HuffPo. It’s ostensibly about gamification, and if you don’t know what that is, it doesn’t matter. I’ve never called anyone out by name in a public forum. But I’ve never read anything quite like this.
I know I’m...
“The attorneys general for Delaware and Maryland have joined the call for...”
– If I worked in the government, I’d be supernostalgic for a period in which mass communications lived almost entirely within regulated bandwidth.
Google, Apple asked to ban apps for drunken-driving checkpoints - San Jose Mercury News
“It’s crazy. Gibson Dunn is the law firm that represented George W. Bush in Bush...”
– This is my neighborhood. Hell, this is my block. This is why I despair, frequently, not just for Park Slope, but for the very premise of democracy.
Is New York Too New York for Bike Lanes? — New York Magazine (via davidgalestudios)
“Though Fukushima Daiichi is the ultimate nightmare of technology as sorcerer’s...”
– Indian Point Is New York’s Nuclear Question Mark - NYTimes.com (via davidgalestudios)
Sleep is More Important than Food - Tony Schwartz... →
Insofar as I’ve ever been in a position to provide or endorse advice, this is strong advice. When we were building Area/Code, I basically went through five years of long-term sleep deprivation; at the end of it, I could no longer remember simple things.
It’s better now than it’s been, but I’ve never been so aware of such a direct correlation between behavior and mental...
