Jan 31 2013
Sometimes there are products or services that I really dig, but I find myself alienated by their marketing. Two examples of this came up for me today that had me shaking my head. In one instance, the problem was the language. Now, I adore the cloud service Dropbox. I absolutely rely on it, but in …
Jan 29 2013
Matt Alexander declares that today the iPad has replaced the Mac, by adding a new 128GB model. . . . with a price immediately comparable to the 11-inch MacBook Air, Apple has ostensibly released an iPad that broaches into the realm of full-time workhorse device . . . Today’s iPad, available for $929 with an LTE …
Jan 27 2013
Well, no I didn’t. But get this. So this vending machine is selling stickers of Internet memes (or “meme’s”), which is clever enough I guess. But do you see what I see? No? Look closer. I’m sure Dave is getting a piece of this action. Right?
Jan 26 2013
We do not like to be told we are being jerks. We do not like to be told we are being demeaning, or belittling, or discriminatory, or bigoted, even if by accident. Particularly we skepto-atheists, who so pride ourselves on our rationality, our grip on reality, our ability to coolly evaluate information on its merits. …
Jan 26 2013
Gary Wills, a conservative, shakes his head at his native South: This is a region that rejects sex education, though its rate of teenage pregnancies is double and in places triple that of New England. It fights federal help with education, preferring to inoculate its children against science by denying evolution. No part of the country …
Jan 25 2013
Don’t worry, girl. From my album Evidence of Absence, accompanying froggie image by Phoebe Schweizer West.
Jan 24 2013
A young protester interrupts his confirmation testimony, and he says, yeah, that’s what I was here to do when I got here. Word up, sir. Hat tip to Weigel.
Jan 23 2013
My three-year-old boy Toby and I were talking about presidential politics in the car this morning, like we do. (While his baby sister Phoebe said, “RaaaUUUuUuurrrrRRrgh.”) We were looking back at the 2012 election, and Toby has drawn some interesting conclusions. He often asks whether such-and-such a politician “did a good job,” and this time, …
Jan 22 2013
I feel trapped by Facebook. A recent Salon piece by Sara Scribner has rekindled my nascent desire to exit it altogether. Scribner comes to her own loathing of Facebook from the perspective of someone who, having escaped the cliques of junior high, finds herself once again in a social environment in which approval and validation …
Jan 21 2013
Andrew Sullivan, reacting to the president’s second inaugural: Over the years, I’ve never let go of that understanding of conservatism’s core truth – that all politics ends in some version of failure, that we cannot change and should not want to change the whole world over night, that constant failure is integral to human life …
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