Archive for Technology
Jim was in town this week. Good visit—played various boardgames, went through some Puzzled Pint puzzles (you can download past puzzle sets from their archives), chatted about stuff, went to the Moffett Field Historical Society Museum, had a roundsing. Even though I’ve lived in this area for most of my life, I didn’t know the […]
A mini-review of a remote-controlled vibrator. NSFW.
There are lots of things I love about ebooks, including their portability and their searchability. But one of the things I love most about them is their highlightability. I’ve never had any desire to mark up paper books. I’m one of those people with a deeply rooted sense that books should be kept inviolate; I […]
The most important thing I learned in high school stage tech was a paradigm. I usually phrase it this way:...
I've just started reading both Norman Spinrad's 1980 Songs from the Stars (first chapters set in a post-apocalypse quasi-ecotopia in...
(Quasi-spoilers here for all three Zones books, in that if you've got this idea in your head as you read,...
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being...
New Yorker article: “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg upend Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture?” Video-game event bans women under...
Some technical and vaguely tech-related items, mostly from a couple months back: IBM discovers the business value of editors. OkCupid...
I forget who linked to this recently: a clip of Conan O'Brien talking to Louis C.K., in which LCK points...
Had a bunch of vivid and odd dreams this morning, featuring stuff like a kind of a human-kite ride down...
A few things that seem kind of related to me: HP's face-tracking webcam apparently doesn't detect black faces as faces....