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Beatsqr
I suspect everyone wants to be aninventor. To put their name on something other than a gravestone for posterity. But it’s easy to lose sight of goal from the process of creating in favor of routine frustration. There were a lot of inspiring projects at Maker Faire. More than I’d even be able to break [...] -
SFJ meets Lester Bangs
Sometimes I appreciate being told straight up whether or not I will enjoy something. (“Steve Carell and Tina Fey should be able to carry even the floppiest script, but don’t go see Date Nate because it will render you flaccid for weeks.”) On the other hand, most of the time, Mr. Smartypants entertainment critics, I [...] -
God bless the mighty crime caper story
There’s been a few amazing ones recently. David Samuels writes in the New Yorker about the Pink Panters, a Balken ring of brazen diamond thieves. “The Pink Panthers” Joshua Bearman writes in Wired about an obscenely clever ATM hacking thief. “Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief” Mark Bowden writes [...] -
The Dead Tree Model
James Fallows’ story about Google’s effort to “save the news” is interesting if a little unsatisfying. Knowing people who actually work down in Mountain View, I’ve been hearing for some time that Google had big plans for the news business. I take James Fallows to be a reliable source, and he presents the Googlers as [...] -
Assorted Photos from the CCA MFA show
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Feel good gang initiatve (24th/ Folsom)
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#48HrMag
48 Hour Magazine is awesome project, which I didn’t participate in. I should have and will next time. So should you. It’s available for purchase now. -
David Remnick speaks at Google
Lenin’s Tomb, David Remnick’s account of the Soviet Union’s collapse is one of my all time favorite books. Still, I rolled my eyes when I heard about Remnick’s 600 page biography of Barack Obama. With so much already written about the man, it seemed like intellectual hubris to claim that a 600 page tome wouldn’t [...] -
Cell Phone Safety PSA
Cell phones seem to be the latest target of alarmist technophobia (is [modern advancement] causing [type of grievous bodily harm]). This was news to me, since I’ve been hearing public interest stories for years that warned the radiation (electromagnetic fields or EMFs) from my phone/laptop would eventually give me not only a brain tumor but [...] -
Matt Kindt’s 3 Story pulls the weighty burden of a giant man
Craig Pressgang, the larger than life character in 3 Story by Matt Kindt, is the subject of a cruel experiment executed on wide frame panels across nearly 200 gorgeous pages. He’s also also fantastically tall man turned CIA pawn only to be repeatedly abandoned and embraced throughout the painful duration of his life. 3 Story [...]