Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s secretary Chad Wolf and deputy secretary Ken Cucinelli | Continue reading
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The web as an application platform stinks, and I think this is even more apparent now as we see incredible iPad apps being released. Why are iPad apps, in their initial versions, so much better than websites that have existed for years? When I started writing this post last week, … | Continue reading
Documents disclose how a coding error triggered the massive Rogers outage that left millions of Canadians without service for at least a day | Continue reading
Using a process she called “early modern Wordle,” a scholar claims to have uncovered a hidden message from Catherine of Aragon in a book of jewelry designs. | Continue reading
BitKeeper, the proprietary source management tool used by Linus Torvalds and other Linux kernel hackers to apply patches to their versions of the kernel, is once again at the center of controversy. This time it looks as if the relationship between BitKeeper and the poster-child p … | Continue reading
It is no secret that Asia is the future “economic engine”, and it is our intention to “engage Asia” more steadily, writes Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. | Continue reading
We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value t … | Continue reading
We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value t … | Continue reading
Designing indicators, switches and other controls to fit the abilities of the men who will use them is a joint problem for psychologists and engineersby Alphonse ChapanisOUR MACHINES have become so complicated that we have been forced in recent years to start a new branch of tech … | Continue reading
Dear Googles: I hope you're giving a lot of hard thought to Brownshirt-proofing your vast troves of personal data.Just sayin'. - Edward Morbius - Google+ | Continue reading
The so-called indie web movement, a spiritual cousin to the open source and standards movements, is rooted in a desire for digital freedom, primarily from monopolies that threaten to restrict and violate the common Internet user's online existence. It calls for practical means to … | Continue reading
Read Christopher Schwarz's review of the Chestnut Tools Universal Sharpener, from the April 2016 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. | Continue reading
A growing number of new products allow anyone to apply artificial intelligence without having to write a line of computer code. Proponents believe the “no-code” movement will change the world. | Continue reading
Tiago Forte is one of the leading voices in the PKM movement. For the past 6 years, he's taught over five thousand people (myself included) how to implement PKM through his course Building a Second Brain. BASB is one of—if not the— most formalized approach to implementing PKM int … | Continue reading
Petition to Remove COO Emilie Choi, Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee, and Chief People Officer LJ Brock in a Vote of No Confidence | Continue reading
Guilty pleasures. I have a thing for games and movies that other people dislike. This goes back to the old school days of Nintendo and one of those games that I loved was Deadly Towers. I played it when it first came out and back then, it was one of the most difficult games aroun … | Continue reading
The role-playing game has never been more popular, and players seem to be getting more out of it than ever before. | Continue reading
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Is the Internet, and more generally, the computer, fundamentally impacting how our memory and brain function? In this post I explore the basic function of memory, and how some apps can help us build a second brain. | Continue reading