The first question that every journalist asks about weblogs—how many are there— has been a source of constant debate over the past year. I was cited in the Economist with the number 500,000, which prompted a response, as well as a number of new efforts for estimating this number:
Blogcensus is a funded project crawling and [...]
All good conspiracy theorists know that assassins only use three names: James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman, John Wilkes Booth, etc. Some would even say that this is an indictment for Lee Harvey Oswald in the death of J.F.K. Of course a closer look reveals a host of two named killers, but they derail my [...]
Thanks to the generous donation from airdrop, I procured a copy of a new VW commercial from Europe. At first I was a little worried I’d be preempting some sort of American ad campaign, but then I watched it a number of times and am thoroughly convinced that it would never work here.
Here are some [...]
Given a contest where pride is not at stake, most people will root for the underdog. When a Kirk Gibson limps to the plate in the bottom of the 9th with two outs, down a run, and misses the first two pitches from the most fearful Dennis Eckersley, no one I know is going to [...]
I’ve been interviewed for quite a few publications regarding my work with Blogdex, but today I received the highest accolade: the MIT Spotlight. Every day the MIT homepage features some specific piece of MIT related news to the rest of the community. I recently did an interview for OpenDOOR, the MIT alumni magazine (yes, I’m [...]
The most interesting thing about the top ten most expensive U.S. cities to live in is not that I’ve lived in two of them, but that I wouldn’t live in three. Why? Because they’re in ALASKA. Why would a place so undesirably cold and so painfully remote demand such an investment? Someone with a [...]
Now this is something you don’t often see outside of ATL… and one of the reasons I’m starting to fall in love with it:
Of course it doesn’t compare to this escalade.
Boy, I seem to be talking about spamming and scamming a lot lately. You’d think I was a paranoid bastard if you didn’t know me. But this one is FO REAL.
On my 18th birthday I received a Gillette razor in the mail courtesy of the United States Army †. I guess they were trying to [...]
Kraftwerk has just released a new video playing off their age-old Tour de France theme. It’s not an adaptation of the song in any way, just a reinterpretation of the theme, and a righteous one at that. It makes me want to be a professional biker and/or 3D model.
Kraftwerk.com: Kraftwerk – Video – DSL
What’s the most annyoing thing about Total Information Awareness™? Loss of personal liberties? Complete destruction of privacy? A research budget in the hundreds of millions that could be spent on social programs?
No. It’s the hypocrisy.
Why should our government have the best technology for surveillance and tracking, and not be subjected to its own scrutiny? A [...]