Information Foraging
You think you’re overweight? Check this out: the world’s largest pre-schoolers. Dzhambulat Khotokhov is four years old and weighs 123 pounds (56 kilos). Great article by Jakob Nielsen (all hail…
Thoughts on the Internet
I agree with just about everything in this short diatribe about the internet (via Metafilter). Ironically, though, if it weren’t for the Internet, I wouldn’t have read it. What’s more,…
Who makes rain-mates?
This rain-mate business (see below) is beginning to really bother me. How could something that helped define a generation just disappear, or rather, not appear at all on the net?…
Power, Dominion and Freddie Mercury
In these post-Soviet days, it’s quite a surprise to see something that looks every bit like a statue of Lenin towering over a miniaturized public outside the Dominion Theatre in…
Theremins and Shoppoleths
I am the first person to celebrate the wonderfulness of the web, and the fact that you can buy almost anything from anywhere at the touch of a button, but…
God Bless Framley
The more I hear Alastair Campbell whinge about the media, the more I want to bury my head in The Framley Examiner. There is an uncanny, though not surprising similarity…