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These are things I encounter during my internet forays.

• Crayon Art

  27 Jan 2012

• Chevrolet Speedometer Design

  4 Nov 2011

• Books in the Age of the iPad

  17 Oct 2011

• The Passing of Mummy Brown

  27 Sep 2011

• The Man Who Found the Flow

  12 Sep 2011

• Unsolving the City

  10 Apr 2011

• The Cicada Principle

  8 Apr 2011

• The Connected Company

  14 Feb 2011

• Space Stasis: Rockets and Innovation

  3 Feb 2011

• Embracing the Digital Book

  27 Apr 2010

• Google Algorithm: Bi-grams and Flexibility

  24 Feb 2010

• Readability bookmarklet

  15 Feb 2010

• How America Can Rise Again

  13 Jan 2010

• Rethinking Artificial Intelligence

  13 Dec 2009

• 10/GUI

  19 Nov 2009

• Placebos Are Getting Stronger

  7 Sep 2009

• Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche

  5 Sep 2009

• What Is Software Design?

  26 Aug 2009

• Self-Enforcing Protocols

  19 Aug 2009

• The Universe as a Computer

  18 Aug 2009

• Memristors and Artificial Intelligence

  17 Jul 2009

• Introducing Google Chrome OS

  8 Jul 2009

• Cheap Facts and Plausible Premises

  6 Jul 2009

• Google Chrome's Browser Security

  20 Jun 2009

• Atlas Obscura

  16 Jun 2009

• SIGMA: Science Fiction Think Tank

  6 Jun 2009

• What Makes You Uniquely "You"?

  6 Jun 2009

• Mixed Feelings: New Senses, Brain Plasticity

  24 May 2009

• Greed is an Excuse, not an Instinct

  23 May 2009

• Robert Frank's The Americans

  23 May 2009

• Geeky Writing Practices

  13 May 2009

• More on Wolfram Alpha

  7 Apr 2009

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

  16 Mar 2009

• Natural Born Cyborgs

  11 Mar 2009

• Wolfram Alpha: A Computational Knowledge Engine for the Web

  8 Mar 2009

• If Programming Languages Were Religions

  17 Dec 2008

• WIM: Crazy Scrabble variant

  4 Dec 2008

• On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science

  2 Dec 2008

• The First e-President

  2 Nov 2008

• Time in the Tank

  21 Oct 2008

• Colin Powell endorses Obama

  19 Oct 2008

• Thinking Differently About Health Care

  14 Oct 2008

• The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

  4 Oct 2008

• Live Like You Were Colonizing Mars

  1 Oct 2008

• Worldchanging: Green is the New Black

  29 Sep 2008

• Urban Sustainability, Megacity Leapfrogging

  28 Sep 2008

• Pot-in-Pot: $2 refrigerator runs on water

  28 Sep 2008

• George Szirtes on Character (poets vs novelists)

  26 Sep 2008

• Larry McMillin's Individual Humanities class

  26 Sep 2008

• Save the Planet: Work Less

  24 Jul 2008

• Freeman Dyson on Global Warming

  28 May 2008

• Charles Stross on the Fermi Paradox

  27 May 2008

• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

  28 Apr 2008

• Vengeance is Ours, by Jared Diamond

  28 Apr 2008

• Minus: asteroid apocalypse

  25 Apr 2008

• On the Road infographics

  8 Apr 2008

• Open Toronto's interesting conference format

  6 Mar 2008

• Lawrence Lessig on why he supports Obama

  19 Feb 2008

• Better Than Free: Eight Generators of Value

  18 Feb 2008

• Grand Engineering Challenges Facing Humanity

  18 Feb 2008

• My Other Car is a Bright Green City

  11 Feb 2008 The solution isn't more efficient cars.

• Think Little, by Wendell Berry

  4 Feb 2008

• The Top Ten Things Environmentalists Need to Learn

  4 Feb 2008

• Zamzar.com

  4 Feb 2008 free file conversion

• Super Influencers Are Over-Rated

  29 Jan 2008

• Ada Grey's review of Origin of Species

  24 Jan 2008

• Michael Swanwick's Stories-in-Bottles

  24 Jan 2008

• The Evolution of Transport

  22 Jan 2008

• Science Fiction: A Literature of Ideas

  22 Jan 2008

• How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle

  22 Jan 2008

• 100 books every child should read — early teens

  22 Jan 2008

• 100 books every child should read — middle years

  22 Jan 2008

• 100 books every child should read — early years

  22 Jan 2008

• What My Jesus Would Do

  20 Jan 2008 John Scalzi's Jesus forgives.

• Rotting Book Depository

  20 Jan 2008 Haunting images of rotting schoolbooks in Detroit.

• Mei Ann Chen in Copenhagen

  20 Jan 2008 YouTube video, which I'm pretty sure isn't staged.

• Robots Evolve and Learn to Lie

  20 Jan 2008