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Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony?
This is the sort of question you might ask after trying to actually verify his supposed MS in Information Technology from the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The registrar has no record of it. After initially posting this article the degree has cropped up apparently at the nearby University Campus in…
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Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring
On Wednesday afternoon I received a thoughtful email from Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller regarding Ninjawords and the App Store, and I think it bodes well.
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Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety
This article explores an alternative explanation: foreign airlines do comparatively poorly because their first officers have almost no pilot-in-command experience.
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Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
Microsoft is increasingly left only with customers whose priority is price.
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Technology: Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.
“Everything is so amazing and nobody is happy.” It is true. We take for granted the miracles we get from technology, and complain when the miracles aren’t perfect. This comedian’s routine on the Conan O’Brien show is funny, mocking our … Continue reading →
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How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital
Security Privacy Surveillance "Sarah Cortes"
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A Life Offline
I have literally had a computer since birth; the Internet came not long after that: I still remember email addresses supplemented by UUCP bang-paths. Hardly a day has gone by in which I haven’t checked my email for what must be a decade.
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Xkcd meets reality
Earlier this week, xkcd posted a fantastic comic about the apocalypse happening and the dead rising to walk the earth. In the comic, mathematicians scribbled frantically and raced to Paul Erdos’ grave to get him to sign a document that is presumably co-authorship on a paper. (For the uninitiated, read about the Erdos…
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Wherein Twestival screw us over with their egregious unprofessionalism.
As you might imagine, we do business with a lot of promoters who are amazingly flaky, inconsiderate, and otherwise unprofessional. It appears to be par for course in this line of work. Normally I wouldn't bother calling one of them out, because it's just so common, but this latest one is so egregiously unprofessional…
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The TED Augmented Reality Hoax
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Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking
Seth Godin has ginormous balls. There, I said it. This morning, Seth used his much respected blog to reveal the…