2010–2026
1,425 posts
2026 9
October 2026
- Rosetta Stone is the worst and I'm done with the Apple Card
- Fraudulent credit card transactions: Magecart and enabling Apple Card CVV rotation
July 2026
June 2026
May 2026
March 2026
- American salvage: root causes of the long collapse
- An ai likes my Darwinian quantum foam universe initiation theory and says I can get a Nobel now
February 2026
January 2026
2025 20
December 2025
November 2025
- AI fear is rational and hate comes from fear
- Economic polarization is the economics term for mass disability - causes of the global crisis
October 2025
September 2025
August 2025
- AI Aug 2025: Apocalypse deferred - but Letta/Void is still going to surprise
- Ending the long back pain saga with ... spinal stenosis surgery (and CrossFit)
- Geriatric CrossFit Tips - 2025 Update
July 2025
- MAGA anti-science and public dissatisfaction with science - public surveys as input to funding priorities
- How to defeat MAGA brutal medicaid access restrictions: fund an AI agent for paperwork completion
June 2025
- Minnesota's Mesabi Bike Trail - A 2025 Review
- Prediction: A post-AGI American democracy will be socialist
May 2025
March 2025
- Tesla Takedown - how I think about it
- No Kings: A calendar of Twin Cities (MSP) events for the resurrection of American democracy
- When the MAGA say "woke" they mean "secular humanist"
- Project 2025 - the Perplexity Summary
January 2025
2024 25
December 2024
November 2024
- On performative block culture in social media
- Ed Lotterman - American's best economics pundit - and a sample column excerpt (immigration)
- Mass disability measured: in 2016 40% of OECD workers could not manage basic technology tasks
- Chaos times: American oligarchy
October 2024
- Autonomous vehicles: A prediction
- Muskism, Vance, AI and the American choice between oligarchy and an imperfect democracy
September 2024
- Perplexity is saving my linguistics classmates
- The End Times have come for the Pinboard.in bookmarking service
August 2024
July 2024
- Naturalized and adopted citizens and Medicare/Social Security - the SSN class trap and a likely SSA software process failure
- The LLM service I will pay for -- call Social Security for me
- Cannondale Scalpel Team Carbon 2010 XC 26" wheel bike with Lefty Speed Carbon SL and Mavic Crossmax Axle cap is part number KH124 (maybe)
- Gabapentin, Alzheimer's, fake science, and the National Library of Medicine
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- Random notes on moving employer sponsored 401K and other pre-tax IRA funds into a rollover IRA
- Geriatric CrossFit: why you should both love and respect the deadlift
- Gluteal pain in discogenic sciatica -- role of the "piriformis"?
February 2024
January 2024
2023 17
November 2023
September 2023
- COVID Associated Fatigue Syndrome (aka "long covid"): personal speculation
- Vanguard's switch to brokerage accounts -- it's still possible to do an automatic purchase, just awkward and undocumented
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
- Large Language Models - evolutionary tree and selection algorithm 2023
- Prosumer digital image management has not progressed to our advantage
- We need a new word for the historical singularity.
March 2023
- The IRS "Free Tax" scam and the hilarious reason why Turbo Tax is the only good free solution.
- ChatGPT's 155 IQ and passing the Sebastian's children puzzle
- A response to Scott Aaronson's rejection of an AI pause.
- Everything is just fine.
- I ask ChatGPT about the next step.
February 2023
2022 10
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
February 2022
2021 15
November 2021
October 2021
- The Cybernated Generation: Time Magazine, April 2nd 1965
- Inline Skating San Francisco -- from 1997!
- 2021, 3 causes
September 2021
August 2021
- Exercise for Olds: year 63 (CrossFit and so on)
- Schwinn IC 4 / Bowflex / Nautilus cycle trainer - review with Zwift and Peloton apps
June 2021
- Alzheimer's and Amyloid: How even a perfect aducanumab could help some and hurt others.
- Why did the patient's leg swell up?
April 2021
March 2021
- Weird world example: "virtual cameras" for online videoconferencing
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - a brief review
February 2021
January 2021
2020 24
December 2020
- My 2015 post on why Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy
- Monitoring the patient with chronic kidney disease -- my ABFM QI project criteria
November 2020
- Biden's lost agenda
- What is middle class and what percentage of American voters can't get there?
- How I think about the Trump voter and America
- The Trump I remember
October 2020
- What I would add to the standard blog model
- Electric vehicles will end another non-college job - the auto mechanic
September 2020
August 2020
- FDA "approved" KN95 masks available on Amazon - $4 each
- COVID Cancellation: The fight with Delta from May 1 to Aug 20, 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
- The year ahead
- Sentinel surveillance for COVID-19: nasal swabs of teachers, service workers, gym coaches and healthcare workers
- It's just the flu
March 2020
- Hydroxychloroquine, COVID-19, and Lupus
- Exercise and sanity in the time of you-know-what
- COVID-03 and COVID-19: influenza co-infection and multiple strains
- India suggests COVID-19 will behave like a bad influenza pandemic
February 2020
2019 17
December 2019
September 2019
- Carbon sequestration
- Clark Goble 1967-2019
- Bicycling North Dakota's Maah Daah Hey trail with Western Spirit
August 2019
- Sorrow for the Long Tail - the memory machine I will never see
- Rough personal notes on review of management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with lumbar spinal stenosis and pseudoclaudiation
- Warmer climate on the earth may be due to more carbon dioxide in the air. 1956.
- The rules change
May 2019
April 2019
February 2019
2018 29
December 2018
- Why the crisis of 2016 will continue for decades to come
- Life goal #2 - The CrossFit Kipping Bar Muscle-Up
- Old doctor pet peeve - disease descriptions were better in Osler's day.
- Quicken for Mac -- why vendors are going to screw-up subscription pricing for software services
November 2018
October 2018
- Nasty flaw in Minnesota mail ballot process
- Attack of the Clones - New disease mechanism identified
- We still need a way to explore and resurface old blog posts
- Why is the hamstring connected to the paraspinal muscles?
- Bostromism rediscovered
September 2018
August 2018
June 2018
- Dubs
- My iOS medical references
- Are Trump-era Evangelicals closer to ancient Judaism than to Christianity?
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
- Gender and politics in America
- Macintouch in the twilight
- How to build a safe and sane social network
- Medical topic monitoring: PCOS topics added to my RSS feeds
- And so it came to this
February 2018
- CHIP, immune disorders, osteoarthritis, and hydroxychloroquine
- Notes on managing a canine biliary system clearance disorder (intrahepatic cholestatic liver disease).
January 2018
2017 27
December 2017
- Tech regressions: MORE, Quicken, PalmOS, iOS, Podcasts, Aperture, Music, iPad photo slide shows, and toasters.
- Did an autonomous Tesla kill its first cyclist?
- NYT moves columnist blogs into a controlled venue -- with some deprecated RSS
- Weinstein, The Enquirer, Pecker and Trump - a curious set of friendships
November 2017
October 2017
- What percent of white women voted for Trump - really?
- Personal note - Google Scholar discovers something I maybe wrote and forgot long ago
- Understanding century 21 - IT, Globalization and urban-urban migration
- Saint Paul Minnesota mayoral race: bikes and peds
September 2017
- Small traps to watch out for: My Merrill Lynch unexpected brokerage fees
- Elenco SnapCircuits 500 block layout
August 2017
July 2017
- Moving the body - how much is too much?
- Uninsured patients in US (mostly) no longer pay crazed "list price" for hospital care
June 2017
- All those "Democrats and white middle class" articles explained in four lines.
- Escape from the Wheel of Time
April 2017
March 2017
- Broken world: applying for a minimum wage job via a corporate HR web site
- All our family healthcare visits are now billed as CPT E&M Code "Level Four"
- Curious Priceline credit card fraud today
February 2017
January 2017
2016 88
December 2016
- Crisis-T: blame it on the iPhone (too)
- Investment things I learned in Crisis-T
- Save America. Vote GOP.
- Piketty's latest work on inequality is wrong about education.
- Resistance prelude: Orchid Island, Taiwan
- Fallows: "the most grievous blow that the American idea has suffered in my lifetime"
- Automated purchases of index funds - how to view and discontinue at Vanguard
- It's time to take those gains
November 2016
- Blame IT
- Peak Human and Mass Disability are the same thing
- Crisis-T: stop talking about white *men*
- I can't recommend the Mac any more
- Excerpts from Remnick's recent Obama interview
- The electronic health record problem list - how I'd do it for the third time
- Crisis-T: What's special about rural?
- Mass Disability - how did I come up with 40%?
- After Trump: reflections on mass disability in a sleepless night
- After Trump: information wants to be free, but knowledge is expensive
October 2016
- Counterfeit Amazon
- How to give believers an exit from a cause gone bad
- Cumberland Wisconsin is peculiar
- iPad High School: 1 out of 3 students return their iPad agreement
- Why Trump? Blame the Vermont Teddy Bear company.
September 2016
- Amazon Household and Audible account sharing: these can't both be right
- Revenge of RSS: Google returns to blogs and feeds.
- How does the world look to Trump's core supporters?
- Apple is planning to eliminate many iOS parental controls over next year?
- Maciej's Pinboard is a contender for longest lived microblog platform.
- On being a non-contender in a regional mountain bike race
- Americans like television commercials ... and other quick notes
August 2016
- Last days at the best of social networks: app.net (aka Alpha, ADN).
- Trumpism: a transition function to the world of mass disability.
- What socioeconomic support will look like in 20 years
- Massive phone spam -- from Weatherby Healthcare
- What a solution for phone spam will look like
- Crab Bucket
- Those moments when you feel the walls of reality fall away
- Creaks and clicks in geriatric bikes
July 2016
- In defense of Donald Trump.
- Life tip: photograph or photo-scan cards and special correspondence
- Double unders
- Signs of progress from O'Reilly and Limbaugh.
- Informatics core: US genomic and healthcare standards have a common problem.
- Systemic failure in American medicine: combining ICD-10-CM with "leaf code" reimbursement rules
- Fixing disc brake squeaks - mountain bike.
- Finding yourself in the mathematical universe of pi
June 2016
- Desensitization therapy for dogs with fear of thunder, lightning and, of course, firecrackers
- Traffic skills for cyclists: MSP options
- Driving under the smartphone influence: changing my bicycling style and changing laws
- Dissecting drug price leaps: The hydroxychloroquine story
May 2016
- Computers and productivity - a net zero?
- Fermi resolved
- What killed inline skating? A new suspect.
- Beyond Simplenote: I still want a graph layer (concept map) overlay for my memory augmentation notes collection
- New York Times VR kit shows up in the mail
- The Other Side of History: an audiobook
- Special relatively predicts the photon: Minkowski:Poincaré:Lorentz:Boosts from 2 assumptions & math.
- What are the neanderthal diseases?
- Physiology in action - water loss on low carb diets
- Things I didn't learn in medical school: Vertigo
April 2016
- World center of Eckankar cult is 1km from Prince's Paisley Park
- US programs for physicians reentering clinical practice.
- My project management tools - April 2016
- Boxer shorts for bicycling
- Apple's CareKit (HealthKit) - what kinds of clinical data does it work with?
- Old broken person CrossFit - it's fun. Really.
March 2016
- The Obama doctrine -- I will so miss our Vulcan President
- Using Gmail and the link to correspond with patients -- HIPAA 2013 clarification
- Phenazopyridine (pyridium, AZO) - yet another example of missing research
- The Man's Book (1978)
- Everyone needs an AI in their pocket
- Minnesota explained: Rubio, Sanders and the President Gordon agenda.
- Pediatric TMJ disorder and Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip: Separated at birth?
February 2016
- Why Johnny can't make drugs any more ... we need better science from government.
- A peculiar finding of a 2010 RSV infection and transient autoimmune diabetes leads to ... nothing.
- Red Cross Basic Life Support training: avoid the Flash based simulation option
- Aspirin, NSAIDs, cell death and the treatment of arthritis and interstitial cystitis
- Rebooting medical research - the world needs Canada.
- Heberden's nodes deserve more respect.
- Forget electric or hybrid or mileage. There's only one thing that matters for your next car.
- Deep Burning Butt Ache review: Piriformis syndrome, sciatica, deep gluteal syndrome, sacroiliac syndrome, deep buttock syndrome ...
- Medical knowledge diffusion: The osteoarthritis example
- Google deprecated 'security questions' - in May of 2015.
- Google and RSS: Not unfolding as anticipated
January 2016
2015 75
December 2015
- Aetna's unethical cost savings are enabled by the "arbitration" laws purchased by large corporations
- Why DOJ should block Aetna and Anthem acquisitions: A story of strategic pre-authorization delays
- Growing old grudgingly: The CrossFit Inversion
- Smartphone calendaring: a brief survey
- Calendaring in iOS, OS X, Outlook 2010 and Google Android/Chrome are all very different.
- Arthritis - the feeds and queries (reference post)
November 2015
- Extremophiles and auto-immune disease
- Hockey skill videos (reference post)
- Car stereo and price hiding: Buy from Crutchfield but hire an installer.
- The impossible machine
- Resurrect anthropology
- Scott Moses' FP Notebook is an astounding, and free, medical reference
- Randall Munroe introduces world language and Google Translate training program using charming New Yorker article
- Mountain biking - crash and ride safety tips from Bicycling.
- Trump explained: Non-college white Americans now have higher middle-aged death rates than black Americans
October 2015
- Capitalism, fraud and maximizing wantability
- Learning from an Amazon "Newer Galaxy" fraud: I too am prey.
- Apple blogs: please stop confusing Apple shareholders with Apple customers
- Quicken spending spam - alert "feature"
- Preventive care: what's new in the past 7 years
- London
- Managing the TBs of videos and photos the kids produce
- The "Paperless billing was requested" (minor) scam -- AT&T edition
- The eBook is dying. I'm the only person on earth who blames the DRM.
- How data lock destroys the customer experience - Apple edition.
- Rheumatic syndromes remind me of pre-quark particle physics
- Fixing a painful wrist with high frequency weightlifting and wrist hyperextension. WTF.
- No, Apple News.app is not necessarily evil. Why do you ask?
September 2015
- History: the printer has passed
- Making of the modern pop song - fusion of the corporate and the anonymous individual
- Vanguard voice biometric enrollment: the wrong way to do security
- If you want to take a nonagenarian for a six hour flight to San Francisco...
- American economy 2015: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Donald Trump lead to the same conclusion.
- Google Trends: Across my interests some confirmation and some big surprises.
- Repairing a 2010 RockShox Monarch RT3 - good luck getting parts
- Tick bite causing meat allergy? (alpha-gal oligosaccharide allergy)
- On knee pain and the state of medical knowledge (updated)
- Family medicine board examination 2015: One last time.
August 2015
- Pectus Excavatum complications - beware neck strike during barbell Clean
- Mountain biking: A good sport for heavy kids?
- Amazon reviews show a Shimano SPD pedal has a safety defect. Do Amazon and Shimano have a duty to report under US law?
- And now for something somewhat different
- 2015 vs. 1910 - which era has more future shock?
- Donald Trump is a sign of a healthy democracy. Really.
July 2015
- Sleep disordered breathing Catch-22: sleeping with post-operative nasal obstruction and an unreliable oral airway
- Counterfeit bicycle components and my defective "Shimano" pedals
- How to donate used bikes (and why that may beat selling them)
- Tools: emulating (Rally) Agile work using Appigo ToDo.app and ToDo Cloud
- Why don't we have better medical textbook descriptions of disease?
- The American Heart Associations "911" heart attack campaign is not evidence based
- Perspective - 20 year family reunion probabilities
- Apple TV's PBS station has great shows, but an awful user experience
- Automating medical error: misadventures in medication reconciliation
May 2015
- Story of our times - What happened to screen door latches?
- Crime and the enterprise
- Fixing the iPad: Family share and iBooks
- Reorganizations - did Petronius Arbiter really say that in AD 27? No.
- Medical research is hard - two NYT articles on Losartan for Marfan syndrome.
- Paul Theroux's 1976 visit to Santa Ana, El Salvador - repeat on 2015 Google Street View
- How to (properly) use a nasal spray
- A data lock free local file format for a concept map or mind map application
- Happy accident fraud - Feds move on Aetna and other health insurers with deceptive provider listings
- Alpha (the better twitter) on app.net 1 year post-death, is like this...
April 2015
- The NYT web site is becoming unreadable on my iPhone
- Tech bubble 2015: Billion dollar acquisitions financed by the "rent" we pay MegaCorp monopolies?
- Pre-Diabetes and the Diabetes Risk Prediction Tool
- I want a Zenith CruisePad for my iPhone
March 2015
- The world needs a global heat map of nation-specific stress levels
- Gordon's Laws of Acquisition updated: The Device Limit
- Dinitrophenol and obesity: The NYT's curiously sparse coverage from 1933 to 1938
February 2015
- IT and productivity - two noteworthy posts from Equitable Growth
- Google and the Net 2015: The Quick, the Sick and the Dead - 7th edition
January 2015
2014 70
December 2014
- Software died three years ago. Why?
- Where does all the time go - video training from SafeSports to corporate marketing.
- Anecdote - exercise and weight control. It takes a lot.
- Humbug - Amazon, Apple and Pottermore
November 2014
- The obsolete world of photo sharing
- Learning new habits and skills - Pinboard, Simplenote, Toodledo and the skr tag
- Riots
- Negotiation 2014: A compilation of state of the art techniques
- Exercise on the exit ramp - the 30 year plan.
- Facebook's feed overflow fix will have collateral damage
- A variant of English optimized for machine translation to Chinese
- AT&T secret mobile opt out system shows sense of humor
- After the Apple Watch debacle - the Nano recovery
- Keystone question: if US were to meet China accord goals, would Keystone be economically viable?
- Annals of return to RSS - Geeks who don't realize their site has a feed
- Election 2014: post-mortem
October 2014
- She's dead Jim. Requiem for a 9 year old G5 iMac
- The relativistic version of the linear motion equation: velocity = acceleration*time.
- Blogging is definitively back - the NYT has redone their Zombie RSS page
- The Alibaba/Apple Ratio and the fools guide to post-bubble market timing
- Repairing carbon frame mountain bikes: Ruckus Composites vs. Cyclocarbon
- PhotoCard 1914
- What is the best material for a mountain bike frame?
September 2014
- Apple kills yet another photo sharing service - and generally screws up iOS photo management
- Bill Atkinson's PhotoCard.app for iOS - weekly messages to my Dad in his nursing home
- How to buy a used bicycle - and why carbon frames are a special problem
- Information asymmetry and can my Cannondale Scalpel purchase be salvaged?
- Apple Watch - a bridge too far
- How can anyone compete with Amazon?
- Lessons from our "Simply Vibe" soundbar: sunk costs and the curse of the embedded processor
August 2014
- Coming to terms with the multiverse
- Human pregnancy is a dynamic struggle - implications for eco-econ, corporate power and secular stagnation
- Exercise and 55 - still CrossFit
July 2014
- What if road laws treated bicycles as first class citizens?
- My home remedy for a volar (palmar) ganglion cyst
- Google shutdown policy - Orkut as a standard?
- How quickly can businesses adapt?
- Why Apple killed the most important applications on the Mac: Aperture and iPhoto
- Tax refund fraud targets health care workers, exploits big hole in IRS security
June 2014
- Online textbooks are awful. It's time to kill the publishers.
- Secular stagnation and the Beveridge curve - the role of frail boomer parents
- A warning to family physicians doing educational modules - cultural competency isn't your worst option
- Apple kills Aperture. Observations.
- We are older than the universe
May 2014
- Don't lose the birthdate for your Fakebook account
- Beats and Hachette, Amazon and Apple
- Who killed American broadcast TV time-shifting -- and how did they do it?
- Reconstructing our medical evidence base by algorithmic trust assignment across the medical literature
- Thinking tools 2014 - holding steady but future unclear
- Google decay: Custom search engines
April 2014
- illumiNITE Reflective Wind Pants: a weirdly unique product
- Apple and healthcare -- what if Cook went for the ring?
- Salmon, Picketty, Corporate Persons, Eco-Econ, and why we shouldn't worry
- The Einstellung effect: simple truths we cannot see.
- Beijing Genomics Institute - the second coming of eugenics
- Exercising hard as an old person - one year of CrossFit
March 2014
- Encyclopedia Britannica lives - at least on iOS
- What you sign up for when you pay Virgin Mobile Canada for phone services
- Late revelation -- Doom of the Face
- I need a word for the willful failure of reason
- How could we create an evidence-based classification of disorders of the mind?
- Why geezers hit the gym (warning - for mature audiences only)
February 2014
- Mobile carrier SMS pricing created the messaging lottery - and WhatsApp won it
- Vanguard and Fidelity: When did civilization collapse again?
- 21st century market failure: what the rise and fall of Guitar Hero teaches about gamification
January 2014
2013 92
December 2013
November 2013
- Android's curious advantage: lawbreaking made easy
- Future Stunned: Earlier reality flux in the post-material world
- Resolution: tighten bike bolts AND the shoe bolts every 2 months
- 1973 vs. 2013: Stagflation vs Stagbubbilation
- Lessons from healthcare.gov - we have the wrong Cabinet
- Managing the Facebook Problem
- Apple reactivates anonymous charitable donation via iTunes - please Cook, make this permanent.
- Human domestication, the evolution of beauty, and your wisdom tooth extraction
- So every male over 65 will be on Statins now?
- How the US could get a real (big) carbon tax
- Lessons from Photo Stream Unlimited - Typhoon Mobile and is Apple going to make a prosumer camera?
- Bicycling related kickstarters wanted: integrated cam/light, power platform, autonomous vehicle communication
- Wanted: A blog feed that consists of a random sample of all past posts
October 2013
- April 2014: What Americans and the world must do after the Tea Party's first defeat
- I need a feed of television commercials
- How to practice your French (or Chinese, English, etc) pronunciation on your iOS device. For free.
- For American adults are poverty and disability the same thing?
September 2013
- Will we get a $5000 custom app development business?
- The corporate wiki I want
- Evolutionary economics is due for a reboot
- Project Memfail: Tackling my search space problem
- New age data loss: what do we do when backup isn't enough?
- Facebook's real problem -- people sharing photos and stories
- Amerisclerosis? Why US underemployment (and probably inequality) persists.
- Mounting a bike light when you use a front bag
- BBS Dial up information from 1980s
August 2013
- CrossFit at 54
- Americans traveling through Canada: Telecom 2013
- Will Facebook become a local event and activity service?
- Apple and the 2013 tech world - in the doldrums
- Sympathy for Economists
July 2013
- My eBook misadventures. Not ready yet?
- Nose and mouth breathing: a popular non-medical topic and a curious research deficit
- Bicycling in a deluge
- National Library of Medicine adds PubReader - Instapaper for medical literature fans
- Acute back strain management - one anecdote
- American psychology and civil war in Egypt
June 2013
- Blogger.com and Wordpress.com traffic post the end of Google Reader
- Microcomputer redux
- Cash purchases driving a new real estate bubble - too much wealth, too few investments
- Was AirPort Utility 6 the start of Apple's year of drifting dangerously?
- What pedestrians and cyclists can do while we wait for the end of human drivers
May 2013
- Android tablet price crash: do we have a cereal box computer yet?
- Stock prices - resorting to another dumb hydraulic analogy
- Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it.
- The Ranbaxy story: why we still can't trust our medications
- Our secret questions will be helpful after the singularity.
- Addressing structural underemployment (aka mass disability)
April 2013
- Muscle soreness two days after CrossFit -- why does it go away?
- Learning programming for middle school - Python
- Math education if you don't care for everyday math and religious purity is not required
- Why does the Fujitsu iX500 document scanner need a computer?
- Blood donation false-positive HTLV I/II test interpretation. Update - a single case of later onset auto-immune disorder
- The Net is a forest. It has fires.
- I closed my PayPal account. You probably should too.
- Is this AT&T rate change minute expiration a new dirty trick?
- Buying a used road bike (Mineapolis St Paul example).
- Roger Ebert and Iain (M) Banks
- Google Field Trip -- Scooba Mississippi
March 2013
- Schneier: Security, technology, and why global warming isn't a real problem
- Fermi Paradox: The solution set is stable
- Device size: clothing makes the choice
- Project Ducky - why I've stopped using new Cloud services.
- Google's war on standards: RSS, ActiveSync, now CalDAV
- Quick thoughts on the end of Google Reader
- Strange loops - five years of wondering why our corporate units couldn't cooperate.
- We do not understand the world in which we live
- What's so bad about a bit of torture?
- Does Edge Gel reduce the lifespan of disposable razors?
- The canid domestication of homo sapiens brutalis
- What Evernote reminded me about my Cloud services - and my 2013 security policies
- ADN.NET: To get beyond social app.net needs to make parting painless
- Why are some simple things still hard to discover online?
- Which is better for work travel: An 11" MacBook Air or a (maxi) iPad with Logitech keyboard?
- American Healthcare: only the little people pay list
February 2013
- Michael Church's model of the corporate worker - a short critique
- The Mac World needs an app that will toggle Java availability
- Pay to Play: Facebook and the attention economy.
- Inherit the Cloud: Who gets your Google Docs when you die?
- Preparing for the inevitable - Google Docs for the "Not available" letter
- Hints that your heart needs checking - in memory of Jim Levin
- Apple: What it would take for me to like you again.
January 2013
- High functioning schizophrenia: an academic's story.
- Parc-nature du Bois-de-Liesse: XC Skiing in Montreal Quebec
- Boom market 2013?
- Why ending the war on drugs may have unintended consequences
- Why I love app.net (ADN)
- Supporting sports teams - what I do now
- How did the American South feel about losing the Civil War?
- Welcome to the 21st century: The primary themes
2012 194
December 2012
- The Post-AI era is also the era of mass disability
- Tis the season of the apocalypse - Cambridge Center for Existential Risks and the Preppers.
- Tax bullets to pay for better mental health care
- Google Reader Shares and the history of the feed.
- Minnesota DFL phone spam - might not be what it seems
- Internet Trends 2012 (Meeker, KPCB)
November 2012
- Hey Republicans: If you want to cut ObamaCare, try wellness programs
- Baumol's disease and the demographic transition: Productivity asymmetry means children are increasingly expensive
- Corporate growth and the unexpected triumph of central planning
- The Right will drop Climate Change Denialism within the next six months
- XMind: Impressions and comments on the mind mapping market
- iOS 6.01 Podcast app: Die, Apple, Die.
- Post-election reflection
- Apple drive replacement program notification error sends blogger over edge
- MacBook Air vs. iPad: waiting for the keyboard
- Minor things that drive me nuts: iCloud is not an improvement over MobileMe
October 2012
- Usability of electronic health records: test cognitive cost first
- The Chameleon Candidate
- Minnesota's Coursera eviction will be reversed
- How and when will Apple give up on Siri?
- Canada travel: Activating a Rogers paygo SIM for your iPhone or other unlocked GSM phone (voice only).
- Nguyen Chi Thien - the toughest SOB poet that ever lived.
- Electronic health records and payment increases: It's not fraud.
- Voted. Easy choices. Again.
- RIFty Fifty
- Baumol's cost disease: medicine, education and post-AI disruption
September 2012
- Why are OS X solutions easier to find than Windows solutions?
- Islamic rage and free speech.
- Tom Cook's great test: the response to Apple maps.
- What has Apple done for me lately?
- Tachytely and human evolution: implications for the Drake Equation and Fermi Paradox
- Why I'll be deferring iOS 6 and iPhone 5: podcasts gone
- Information archeology: a challenge for Google Reader (or its successor)
- Gerbil- the Achilles tooth
- The Cosmo story, the facade of online security, and the US Postal Service.
- iPhone 5: meh.
- Home maintenance: Our toilet leak, why Google searches about home problems suck, and my fix
- Learning French: using free speech recognition services to improve pronunciation and accent
- Education - how much has math teaching changed?
- Do evolutionary strategies evolve?
- Weird economics - why our kids end up with expensive iPhones that make me nervous
- Nexus 7 - what is it good for?
- Calculators are really weird tech, but their time may finally pass
August 2012
- Time-reversal symmetry violation
- When paper dies, what will happen to all the mill towns?
- The Ocean is a weird place: floating islands of pumice
- How much of America's healthcare crunch is dementia care?
- johngordon on App.net
- Is Detroit the future of Manhattan?
- Dear Dems: Maybe you shouldn't have spammed me so much.
- I put $50 down on App.net
- CAPTCHA has failed, and so anonymous comments may go too.
- Digital has finally killed paper -- and office supply stores.
- Net security is completely broken
- Coin flips and climate
- Google's Kansas Gigabit and the wireless war
- Microsoft: what really happened?
July 2012
- Minnesota: There is official bicycle parking at the Rosedale Mall (aka Rosedale center)
- Poverty in the west
- Facebook's share price: based on my ads, it's going to stay in the 20s
- Google Fiber: a blog, not a G+ share
- You're 50 now. It's time to start plan 0.
- A shot in the dark - Am I my brother's keeper?
- Zenith CruisePad 1996
- Apple's profits disappoint. So what has Apple done for me lately?
- Usenet: it's time to put a stake in it
- Facebook changing: it's not about friends or games any more ...
- Aurora - the rational response is better schizophrenia management
- Google World Wonders Project
- Why Montreal is the #1 bicycle city in North America.
- Why does Thrifty Rental provide car key sets bigger than my iPhone?
- How Google can save itself - sell privacy.
- Is labor lumpish in whitewater times?
- Health care: We don't want more stuff, we want more years.
- Where would I hide a military AI project?
- How China might play the Koreas
- The Standard Model - summarized
- Google's Project Glass - it's not for the young
- Computing 2012: The End of all Empires
- Traveling in Europe with an AT&T unlocked iPhone 3GS
- Air Conditioning and obesity
- Bicycle light donation - a selfish way to give
June 2012
- After the decision - healthcare 2012
- Browsing the blog backlist - we need a new app
- Google's A.I. recognizes cats. Laugh while you can.
- Best cities of North America - Chicago, New York, Montreal ... and Minneapolis
- Wayback machine: My 2001 web site
- The Minneapolis Friday Night Skate: 1998-2011
- The evolution of spam: Nordstrom and mandatory spam acceptance
- Median net worth stasis: health and demographics?
- Why bicyclists run red lights
- Buying bicycle gear online - some sources
- NYT's Bob Tedeschi gives me a parting gift - iOS Parental Controls don't work
- Fifty Lives: A Work of Historical Fiction
May 2012
- I said Romney could never win the GOP primary ...
- Apple's quality problem is a complexity problem too
- Periodic Table of the US Navy?
- Why coupons? Price concealment information and memetic archeology in the pre-web world
- A millennia of European history in six bullet points
- Euthenasia will come to America within the next twenty years
- Entanglement and the emergence of time
- Post-singularity life is burning a lot of neurons
- Who were the crazy genius scientists?
- Is Siri Tom Cook's Newton?
- Canada vs US: What happened in the 90s?
- Minnesota 2012: Emotional health?
- JP Morgan debacle - it's all Krugman's fault
- Facebook and financing a new Vikings stadium: it's a messy world
- The Wart Blog
- Oldest web news portal - refreshed
- Understanding the Middle East: Iran's 16th century Safavid Dynasty (IOT)
- Sympathy for the federal reserve: Bubble 2.0
- Where did Apple's Aperture 1.0 come from?
- How to buy happiness
- My personal salon - the feeds I read completely
April 2012
- IPO lessons from MySpace
- Progress
- Why did productivity gains go to the elite after 1973?
- Why are Google and Facebook ads so crappy?
- Microblogging 2012 - Pinboard?
- Information asymmetry and my Cuisinart coffee maker - Steve Jobs in Hell
- Optimism bias in Potter fan-fic, software development, and government - we can correct
- Bicycling: How to respond to an unwise driver?
- Why we need Google Glasses (really)
- Spam-Cram epidemic means SMS dies sooner
- Boomers and modern medicine - the economic impact of ailing parents
- Crammed: Mblox $9.99 a month
- Global Warming 2012 - Are the Denialists really winning?
- A Song of Ice and Fire - don't start
- Stories in passing
- Mobile carriers to attack Apple's margins?
- The Modern Firm - a review
- Thinking about autism
- Why did AT&T end its iPhone eternal carrier-lock program?
- Why we tolerate Facebook, but despise Google
- Side-effect of the iOS in-app purchase model - the reviews are worthless
- Why doesn't the world's richest company make better software?
- Weird moments in tech - what's happening to home video and photography?
March 2012
- The world has people like this: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the World Bank
- Liberals and conservatives - it's in our programming
- Macintosh technology 2000-2003
- Victims of a mass murderer
- Medicine 2020: Integrative Personal Omics (iPOP) identifies RSV triggered onset of Type II Diabetes
- Whatever happened to the Fuel Cell?
- Escape from North Korea's Camp 14
- Toothpaste
- iCloud, iOS, and identity: The end of app sharing
- What is Iran really afraid of?
- Teacher rankings - relearning the lessons of adverse selection
- Why quality collapsed in the bubble years: Akerlof and the last good toaster
- Apple's FairPlay DRM, subscriptions, and the cost of MLB At Bat
February 2012
- Gaming Google reviews?
- Americans Elect - another try at GOP 2.0
- American obesity and the public schools - one anecdote
- Strata big data Santa Clara - should be interesting
- Interesting problems: MobileMe, iCloud, Lions and Google
- A GOP blog I can read
- GOP jumps off bridge on birth control
- OS X Message: Another nail in the SMS coffin
- Apple's software maintenance problem
- Progress is uneven: digital video mess and Google search
- Foxconn vs. Apple?
- Slavery, technology, and the future of the weak
- My iPhoto miscalculation - whitewater world
- Ancient Rome in a nutshell
- Apple's Potemkin Parental Controls (iOS edition)
- Why did Sean Carroll write 'From Eternity to Here'?
- Bexarotene clears amyloid plaques in ApoE4 defective mice - and an Alzheimer's review
- How nations die: GOP mandates 2+1=4
- Adapting to Minnesota's new winter
- Siri struggling
- Google and Facebook: how Chrome supports life with an dully evil corporation
- Translating brain electrical activity into word sounds
- Peak Oil 2005?
January 2012
- World without winter - Minnesota edition
- What I do
- GTD: Email to task with Toodledo
- GTD: grouping tasks into Projects using Context with ToDo.app and Toodledo
- GTD: Creating a project vs. editing a persistent task
- CSS was a terrible mistake
- CEO Compensation: Apple and more
- Wisdom summarized - Elders speak
- Do whipworms make dogs eat dirt?
- Rule 34 by Charlie Stross - my review
- Divorcing Google - and hoping for GoogleMinus
- Does earlier menarche explain the growing girl-boy academic gap?
- Another one of our victims speaks
- Can Apple produce first class software?
- Great graphics: Apple OS and Video Codes
- America's Inquisition
- ISP travails: Forget buffer bloat, what about my upload speeds?
- The GOP Primary is over now. What will the media cover next?
- Has Microsoft lost the malware war?
- Medical fads - are they cycling faster?
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December 2011
- Finance 2.0, Oil and Project Syndicate - entertainment 2012!
- I win Apple's Nano recall lottery
- GOP 2.0: What rational climate change politics might look like
- Weight loss - a state of the science review
- American slavery - the Bachman quote
- Peculiar consequences of wealth concentration
- Ferret flu: An existential challenge to anti-Darwinist Republicans?
- Greece, America and GOP 2.0
- Spider brains and the evolution of computation
- The "War on Chrismas" is not entirely delusional
- US carrier locking of post-contract iPhones - a critique
- Did canine distemper arise from measles in the new world?
- Syphilis - again a New World invention?
- Netbooks
- Google, Blogger and the Machine
- Will Friedman win Salon's hack list 2011?
- And you thought the Jobs bio made him seem nasty ...
- A family doc's perspective on the best way to die
- Organizing human cognition: Lessons from CERN
- Is Gingrich our only hope?
- Hungary a tyranny?
- The Il crime
- Wikipedia's problem
- Ghost story
- Ants, corporations and the great stagnation
- The AI Age: Siri and Me
- Silvio
- Are home phones now a sign of vulnerability?
- The Gordon vs. AT&T iPhone war - Conclusion
November 2011
- What Steve Jobs teaches about psyche and adaptive advantage
- Mass disability goes mainstream: disequilibria and RCIIT
- iPhone micro: How SMS pricing is accelerating the smartphone transition
- I deleted my Google G+ Profile
- The Iran-Mexico assassination plot -- so what about the traffickers?
- Too much history
- Remembering when the iPhone cost less
- The checklist in aviation and medicine
- Apple and self-delusion
- The super-optimist take on the super-committee
- Quantum action - Pusey's theorem
- Rick Perry really is an idiot
- Science, the media and the Himalayan glacier. What's wrong?
- Social media is so 2000
- BBC Jan 14, 2012: How Europe was saved
- Thai floods - microcosm of global climate change
- Google 2.0 gives Microsoft ammunition
- Oprah
- A good time to invest in old bicycles?
- What are the consequences of extreme executive income?
- Google 2.0
- In praise of the (almost) modern bicycle
- Keystone XL, carbon sequestration, and the tax in the closet
- The fear that's driving AT&T's smartphone data plan policies
- The sharing challenge: access, topic and identity. Why G+ fails.
- Gordon's scale of corporate evil - 3rd edition
- AT&T and the mandatory iPhone tax - even out of contract phones must pay
- The nine heroes
- Refugees from the wreck of Google Reader ...
- Google 1.0 is dead. When did it start dying?
- How to replace Google Reader
- The end of Google Reader shares and the rebirth Gordon's twitter feed
- Lessons from Dapocalypse Reader
- Dapocalypse now: Google's day of infamy
October 2011
- This is your life: Kiyoshi Tanimoto
- How Minneapolis went from bicycle bust to bicycle boom in 30 years
- Why does Apple suck at calendars?
- I killed RSS
- Clayton "innovators dilemma" Christensen: Apple will fail
- Credit to the base: The Mormon, the Minority and the Maroon
- Facebook makes no sense any more
- Inflation isn't what it used to be (cosmologic version)
- Renewing a US Passport: 2011 edition
- Does anyone seriously test Apple's iWork products?
- Straight and Crooked Thinking - Wikipedia's remarkable catalog of rhetorical devices and cognitive errors
- An American toaster
- In fifty years, what will our sins be?
- Google Reader: This is going to hurt
- Choices
- The iPhone - Android cost difference is getting large
- Limbaugh defends Satan's army
- What if we are measuring economic output incorrectly?
- Counterfeit Apple goods on Amazon - an interesting lack of enforcement
- Democracy in crisis: Not all votes are equal
- Apple 4.0 - take 2
- Apple 4.0
- Netflix train wreck
- Siri, the Friendly AI
- OWS Recruiting poster by Hargrave Yachts
- Why rationalists like OWS
- Comparing carriers and networks for iPhone owners: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint
- Agriculture and population: which came first?
- The crash of 08: an 8.9% collapse in GDP
- The M word
- Anonymous
- 99%
- Investment in a whitewater world
- Saletan on the ethics of wealth and transplants
- Jobs parents
- GTD: Create appointments not tasks
- Your public Facebook posts - try this Google search
- GTD: Introduction to a series
- The 4S is fine, but it's Sprint I'm interested in
- Occupy Wall Street (OWS): the mass mind masticates
- Fractal universe - Galactic cymbal
- If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product
September 2011
- Global warming: Doonesbury and China
- Deep history and the lifespan of the australian aboriginal
- Forget process, it's the tools
- Local politics - fury at the Jefferson bikeway
- Netflix, Amazon, and Dickens
- Deep history - 40,000 years without change
- Mass disability and the middle class
- CERN's neutrinos - kudos to the BBC coverage
- My G+ Profile - open to connect
- Facebook vs. G+: not in the same ballpark
- Google Reader may not be dead after all
- Car and bike: Observations
- To thine own self be true
- Life in the post-AI world. What's next?
- Complexity and air fare pricing: Houston, we have a problem.
- Never thought I'd see - Microsoft and web standards
- What is Facebook search good for?
- The BBC is making In Our Time archives available for download (!)
- Waiting for the 25th
- The humanity experiment has mixed results: Organ trade and enslaving the disabled
- The Browser: best of the web and a marketing failure
- Klein on why we commie secularists should feel less discouraged
- Opposition to redistribution - two causes
- Google Quick, Sick and Dead - 6th edition.
- Netflix 2011 - now we miss Blockbuster
- Carroll on Time: emergent or fundamental?
- Google's identity failure: recreating the joy of Buzz
- AT&T: In case you forget why you hate the company (but not the customer reps)
August 2011
- Communication and collaboration: We have the pieces, but not the puzzle
- I'm still here ...
- Starting with Google Reader: Gordon's Bundle's
- Plutonomy
- Rick Perry's magic stem cell transfusion
- Geezepreneurs and the depression - we're not dead yet
- Lithium batteries last!
- LinkedIn's bozo move
- Entanglement and the realness of time
- Bicycles and aging motorists - help is on the way
- Fraud, IT, Economics and the Depression: Galbraith is most impolite
- Fraud on Cyber: An annotated sample of Gordon's Notes
- Managing the Depression: A national small business generation service (again)
- Israel's uprising: Is it about the failure of 21st century democracies?
- Computing's calculator price collapse at last?
- Lion as a sign of post-Jobs Apple
- iPhone 6: Make it less precious
July 2011
- Google seeking feedback on the new Google Calendar look
- Nature: daily science news and opinion
- American health care costs: dog, man and Rimadyl
- What killed Intuit's Quicken?
- Roots of the irrational in American politics: pre-dementia and religion
- Jon Udell on G+'s distracting chatter
- God's Will and the debt limit
- I went to Hogwarts
- Checkmate.
- The GOP collapses
- Ebert on Murdoch and The Guardian
- Criminals lacking competence ... boiler room spoofers
- People you may known on G+ ...
- Dyer on Murdoch
- Age of miracles - our Kia Sedona doors and Google
- Shimano, New Balance and Apple - how brands live and die
- Google+ Circles: agonizingly close
- Why is the modern GOP crazy?
- G+ impressions mine
- Will the noose close on Rupert Murdoch?
- The sorry state of 2011 video editing
- America and the social safety net - what happens if future growth fails?
- The iPhone calendar.app color assignment debacle makes Android look good
- Life with Google Two Step Verification - Sign-in Failed with Places.app
- Why I've dropped Scientific American's news feed
- NYT's 1982 article on how teletext would transform America
- Why Apple's thunderbolt cables have inline computers ...
- The state of blogging - dead or alive?
- The terrible advantage of the blogosphere
- Stross whiffs on the Singularity
- Civil War, Polar edition
- Denialists in favor of a warmer earth
- I think I have a Google Reader problem ...
June 2011
- RIM and rebooting a failed software company
- The Surly Long Haul Trucker
- The organ trade: 10 % of organ transplants now fully commercial
- The New York Times' bad password advice - and what you should do instead
- The wilfull wastefulness of the Foundational Questions Institute
- Nimbophobia: 4 more reasons to fear the cloud
- Quantum macro
- Studies in paywalls: Scientific American
- Bright side: Apple's computer for the rest of us
- Uncertainty and Long Depression II
- The kidney trade thrives
- Beating the odds - a software story
May 2011
- Aging boomers and the coming Golden Age of Cyberfraud
- Tornados and global warming - how do we judge predictions?
- Understanding democracy
- Reconciliation May 2011: The posts I won't get to
- The Data General Eagle: Tom West and an old paper of mine
- Happiness as editing - Sunnyside edition
- Google Quick, Sick and Dead - 5th edition. Reader is ailing, but there's been a turnaround
- Obligatory Rapture Day post
- iPod touch wheel - 9 years and an eternity ago
- Conversations - From emotional confrontation to dialog
- Get your international transpant with MedToGo
- Yakima fails a crucial test: treating customers well
- Reliability and the Cloud - Redundancy required
- American torture dishonored us, but we can honor those who said No.
- Separated at birth: alternative medicine and climate change denial
- What if Blogger died and nobody noticed?
- Google Chromebook - disappointing, but a glimmer of hope
- Florida's emergent solution to medicine's failure - high mortality assisted care
- What Barack said to Paul
- Pay for performance: the problem with 3rd grade reading incentives
- Cancer in whales, dinosaurs and birds
- Sympathy for the devil: Anything good in RyanCare?
- Generation gap: Bin Laden and the Chatterbox cafe
- Malice, incompetence, and happy accidents
April 2011
- The undiscovered world is all around us
- Peak Oil: One of my better predictions
- Patel - the Value of Nothing
- Rework reviewed
- Montreal and Minneapolis: Unremarked differences
- The debt ceiling test and why index funds are probably evil
- The twenty minute HIT bicycle routine
- Twin Cities bicycling clubs
- Care of special needs adults in post-employment America
- The Golden Age: November 9, 1989 to September 1, 2001
- Thoughts after two days of a primary care conference
- Text Spam: Phone company text messaging must die
- The debt ceiling: Can Goldman Sachs win if the US defaults?
- Epsilon breach: the iStealer and CyberGate mystery
- Read the NYT on iPhone, iPad or desktop - for free with a Google Reader bundle
March 2011
- Skimmer: The HTML 5 version of the NYT
- Naked Emperors: where are all the connected people?
- 21st century TV - preying upon the weak
- Quantized scent detection isn't quantum computing
- Quantum computing in the nose
- Japan
- Canine companion culture and disability
- Isn't this what the GOP really thinks?
- The Legless and the Lazy - a parable
- Tools I use: iOS
- Business startups - being cheap
- Won't someone please take my keys away?
- Making better predictions
- I did not expect this ...
- Median male earnings - declining since 1969?
- Teachers in the crab bucket
- iPad 2 - why I'm disappointed
February 2011
- Shame of the Smithsonian
- UnReason: The Republican War on Reason
- Health insurance - Americans are sheep
- A taxonomy of American politics
- Where now for the iOS Borders eBook reader?
- How a small company acquisition works
- 8 banks with low fees - per CNN
- The problem with "Everyday Mathematics"
- Egypt
- North Korea
- A guide to better websites in two comics
- Dementia prevention: reason enough for road tolls and public transit
- Science is stuck in a rut. What now?
- Bayes and the infinite universe
- Economics of POW Camp - whatever happened to R. A. Radford?
- Google Art Project
January 2011
- Unemployment and the great stagnation
- Dilbert shout out
- Teaching science - how to improve
- Administrivia: return of the captcha
- Turbulent world, rigid software
- Things that stopped progressing: medicine and theoretical physics
- School segregation - by class
- Unemployment and the new American economy - with some fixes
- Suzhou
- Dog 2.0
- Beyond America - Google world editions with Google Reader and Google Share
- Brazil
- What will be unacceptable in 50 years?
- What China's rulers fear today
- Extreme parenting
- The rise and fall of recreational clubs
- Unloading the post queue
- Neither Loughner, Palin, Beck nor Limbaugh are responsible. Who is?
- Google is clothes free - what's next
- Most cultures punish the atypically generous
- Is the GOP truly a pawn of corporations and the wealthy? We'll find out soon.
- Smartphone choice made easy: iPhone vs. Android
- The not-so-vast readership of Gordon's notes - and why I keep posting
- End times for the credit card?
- America 2011: exploring the boundaries of democracy and capitalism
- Product suggestion: Integrated attic stair and stair frame seal
- Detroit in ruins - we need salvage law for this wrecked vessel
- Resolution 2011: Managing complexity
- Why the United States Postal Service should manage our primary digital identity
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December 2010
- iPhone apps and the Philip Morris business model
- A quiet revolution in naming and framing disorders of the mind
- The history of post-neolithic humanity in 10 minutes - DeLong's annual Econ 1 post
- The Chinese net and machine translation
- Digital cameras 2011-2017
- Which animal throws best? It's a mystery.
- Gordon's scale of corporate evil - 2nd edition
- The greater enemy: why Facebook, Netflix and Amazon will join the Google-Apple truce
- Hans Rosling's Ted Talk trendanalyzer is now Google Docs Motion Chart
- Research the past 200 years of memetic propagation: Google Books ngram viewer
- Google's kid problem - something for the GOP led house to chew on
- Jon Swift (Al Weisel) died Feb 27, 2010
- The Hugo Awards revisited - 58 years later
- Yahoo kills Delicious - don't say you weren't warned about the Cloud
- Alta Vista RIP
- Gawker was hacked yesterday. Today LinkedIn?
- The Gawker hack - and two factor authentication
- The snowy 70s and nordic skiing
- Obama's rant explained
- Terry Pratchett on fading from dementia
- Information leakage in the digital age
- Why did medical progress slow after 1984?
- If Google acquires Groupon they're absolutely insane
- Why you will live in an iOS world
- Cheating in education
- Healthcare quality 101
November 2010
- XMind: Software made in China for OS X and Windows
- Celebrating the war for the preservation of slavery
- Who’s betting on China’s bubble blowout?
- wikileaks: An unstable China
- Destination Cross country resort-class trails within five hours of Minneapolis St. Paul (MSP)
- Price Discrimination and Black Friday
- Perhaps man was not meant to fly after all
- Speculation: The corporate ecosystem and American stasis
- The obvious is shouted, the interesting is whispered
- The iPhone iAd framework and parental controls
- Climate Change 2010: Plan B
- Wetware routers and intermittent consciousness
- Rajini Vaidyanathan, Gordon Brown and me - strange loops in 2010
- Michelle Bachman and Jesse Ventura: Fruitcakes are not the worst
- The phone call is dead - sort of
- Argentina of the North? We should be so lucky.
- Torture and the constitution: The fury beings with the Ghailini trial
- Apple-Google armistice day - Google Voice for the iPhone is available.
- Detroit, dialysis and special needs
- Instapaper makes you more productive ...
- The most vile societies in human history...
- America the senescent
- Voice menu systems don't understand you? Try my fix
- Edging to AI: Constructive (almost) comment spam
- My Google Reader bundles - November 2011
- Nordic skiing: how to tow a kid
- Apologetics: God and the Fermi Paradox
- Inbox zero - zero - at last
- Nostalgia with Klatchian coffee
- Wolf and dog, Neandertal and human, and the limits of taxonomy
- Middle aged lesson #434: Most contractors don't read books
- Understanding the elections - what's really changed
- The physics of mind and the limits of AI
- The GOP likes a fight
- The Health Savings Account preventive visit scam
- Midterms 2010
- Looking for glimmers
October 2010
- A NYT job interview and capitalism 2010
- Apple's share price, market movers, and the latest market bubble
- Greg Bear: City at the End of Time - A review
- Words we need to add to English
- Is Quebec why Minnesotans drive on the right side of the road?
- Lessons from the Cloud: Nobody loves your data like you do
- Rally for Sanity - and The Enemy Within
- My life with Amazon
- Can Apple be sued for false advertising?
- Lessons in Software: Aperture 3 and iPhoto 11
- Google's computational thinking curricula for grades 6 and up
- Why we can't raise the retirement age to 70
- Lessons from Allais Paradox - making right choices
- Advertising
- The rational basis for climate change denialism
- Good news for Obama -- the GOP will take the House and Senate
- The disruptive telecom play - the 3G iPod touch
- US 2003 and China 2010 – Nations on meth
- Tools of the NYT
- Oddly silent dogs: The digital TV conversion
- iPod interface wrong for instructional video
- Friendly fire - how Dem spam killed my donations
- And now, back to our regular programming
- The state of WiFi is mixed
- Cricket’s $149 Android and the future $4000 Dell desktop
- Why you should vote for the Tea Party’s coven in the century of the fruitbat
- Krugman takes on Rupert Murdoch
- Verizon scam: Emergent fraud earns a fine
- Transparent society: automated monitoring of employees
- Google's ad platform is a gaping hole in iOS parental controls
- The key to happiness
- Why do corporations (firms) exist?
- Will this work with your printer?
- Guatemalan STD in 1946, American torture in 2006
- Warp drives and extracting energy from information
- A habitable planet around Gliese 581
September 2010
- iPad Mathematica and Rainbow's End
- Newfoundland hammered by hurricane
- Trust and credential management: MyOpenID
- The morality of markets - and a response to hunger
- The cultural impact of the Pill - neuroendocrinology
- The smartest president in decades
- The $80 ultra-portable - in unexpected form
- In Our Time - the number series
- Progress
- A Google-Apple detente - why?
- Why the Pope is crazed -- the infographic
- The Great Waste: Cyclical, Structural, or Both?
- Why it hurts to read the right
- Race and ethnicity: Minneapolis and St. Paul
- Emergent fraud: Anthem and automatic payment denials
- Visiting hotels in the bedbug era
- How I know Google's Blogger is dying
- If I were rational, I'd vote GOP
- Dentistry
- Google's two factor authentication and why you need four OpenID accounts
- Bayes theorem - in a nutshell
- Yes, you're living at the end time - emulating the 6502 chip
- GV Mobile is back. What's next?
- Muslim world - I'm sorry too
- Technological regressions: two examples
- RIP Bloglines. So is the feed next?
- After the hack: Why you REALLY shouldn't do personal business on a corporate machine
- The Religion Poverty correlation - cause?
- We're crazy now. We were crazier forty years ago.
- Thunder in the Cloud: Lessons from my hacked Google Account
- P vs NP: terrific essay
- No of 1 trials: lipid variability
- Another MSP house blows up
- The Transparent Society - 1920 edition
- Archives of In Our Time: Smolin, Gribbin and Greene
- Torture is now an American state secret
- Mimicry - more than we imagined
- The disposable brain - lessons from our elastic axons
- How to use Amazon reviews
- Why not Depo-Provera dart wild horse mares?
- After the Google Hack: Life in the transparent society
- Was my Google account hacked?
- Lessons in history: iTunes U and the quiet revolution in university education
- Team Obama naivete - I am more than surprised
- What the world needs: a divided thickness blanket
- The Cray 1A resurrected
- Cable connections - now think about conflict
- Pawlenty - an opportunist to despise
- Cross-Country Skiing in MSP - Adelsman
August 2010
- Gmail's personalized classifier: your own private AI
- Michael Lewis - The Big Short - how we lost our economy
- Answering Krugman: Why the Obama administration isn't panicking about the elections
- RV timeshares today and tomorrow
- Guided evolution in cancer therapy
- Survivors and Foragers: speculation on group selection and obesity
- Google's bicycle directions are getting scary good in MSP
- Anthem - Putting the Hell in Health Insurance
- Who does phone surveys anyway?
- Schmidt really did sell Google's soul to Verizon
- The Bowhead whale can live how long?!!
- The Corporation - what next?
- Troubled capitalism: The corporate entity
- Public education in America - Primary and Secondary
- How we know humans have not yet adapted to the digital world
- Lessons from a wrecked Toro Personal Pace recycler lawn mower
- Why I like Krugman ...
- Iraq, Afghanistan, Taliban and Patriarchy
- Another nail in the coffin for the Alzheimer's amyloid hypothesis
- Lessons from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
- Into the Wild
- Managing the Google-Apple war: keeping options open, expecting the Android bicycle computer
- When Microsoft ruled the earth ...
- Cloud data: Should I trust (Simplenote) Simperium?
- Inline Skating (rollerblading) Foot Pain and Suggestions
- Pay for performance in health care and teaching - we know how this ends
- Reengineering the Corporation: A summary
- Comments now without captcha and without moderation
- Passports for adopted children - can someone please fix this?
- Does anyone know what AT&T's smartphone data plan rules really are?
- Telemark Lodge - RIP
- The college bubble goes critical
- Pumping gas
- Star Wars makes sense if ...
- Employment in the Great Stagnation
- Resolution 242 - discounting sunk costs
- After Wave, who will Google kill next?
- Profile of the tech giants – some surprises
- Pole of inaccessibility
- Whitewater world - the insane numbers of iOS and Android
- Lessons from YouSendIt - breaking up is hard to do
- 51. Not as bad as expected.
- Apple's battery charger, occult inflation, and the future of American industry
- Steve Jobs on Parental Controls - the Mac is dead
- Megan McCardle is the John C Dvorak of the Atlantic
July 2010
- Dog are seriously weird animals
- My iPhone Case - from Apple's FIRST emergency case distribution program
- History and demographics - notes from a long commute
- Annals of evil businesses - tricking deadbeats
- Facebook porn
- The terror-industrial complex
- Obligatory iPhone 4 antenna-gate post
- Retiring at 70? Don't legalize marijuana.
- Don Berwick to run CMS is like ...
- Apple's Potemkin iOS exchange support - the problem with being a peripheral customer
- What it takes to be American's Number One biking city - Newest Minneapolis bike trail
- Longevity - Homo neandertalis and technicalis
- How I bought The Best of Oscar Wilde
- Apple's iBookstore and a FairPlay DRM review
- Broken bike path, Google and the postmodern world – good news
- Google to make Gmail conversation threading optional - and apologizes for arrogance
- How quickly can humans evolve?
- The standard human lifespan is 88
- Jonathon Ive lays a second cube: The iPhone 4
- Deficits, climate, BP and immigration: Saving America is suspiciously easy
June 2010
- Dell reaches road's end
- Google: The Quick, the Sick and the Dead - 3rd edition
- How could Krugman be wrong?
- Paul Dirac on the surprising history of the Schrodinger wave equation
- China's water army and my e-cigarette post
- Churches of the Singularity - is Horgan truly an unbeliever?
- The bicyclist’s panopticon
- Beyond the first cause: Deepwater Horizon and the publicly traded company
- Deepwater Horizon spill and the gulf
- Devalue the Yuan or I shoot my economy
- AT&T Contracts, Terms of Service and Plan Terms – observations of interest
- Barack Obama – better appreciate him while you can
- Email domains in the non-geek world
- Strongest sign of economic recovery
- Why dog haters should love prosecution of animal cruelty
- Low vision iPad: Make the iPhone UI an option
- What would make Krugman wrong about spending?
- The Afghan war - year 10
- AT&T’s secret Nov 2009 mobile contract change – Elegant Evil
- Deepwater Horizon - what Obama should understand
- Safari Reader is sweet - my brain on computers
- I, Robot. The alternative to Foxconn.
- AT&T's new data plan - the bright side
May 2010
- Memphis mortgages, complexity attacks and long term consequences
- From the archives - Sanford Weill before and after the crash
- Post-industrial employment: adjusting to a new world
- Obama and the Gulf: Why I remain grateful - and puzzled
- Good news on social security: Obesity
- Causes of the Great Recession: The Congressional Report
- Apple vs. Google: I'm caught in the crossfire
- Google TV, Flash, iPhone and Curated Computing - it's all about the DRM
- Civilization is stronger than we think: Structural deficits and complex adaptive systems
- Unanticipated cloud app problems: The child
- The hungry city
- Organlegging Neuromancer style – China’s liver trade
- Science fiction and ocean acidification
- Krugman discovers humans are not rational
- Jean-Louis Gassée on Cloud 2.0 – post of the month
- My top two blog posts - lessons in markets and humility
- Fear the Cloud: Remember the Milk
- Identity: Legion is a character defect?
- Verizon iPhone – Can you hear us AT&T?
- Hours worked per year: Greece in #2 spot
- Google's DLF - The data privacy connection
- Whitewater age: Nashville edition
- Ken's Concertina
- Social Fail: Room for one more
- Gallery of 56 Chinese ethnic groups
- Jackpot: Leonard predicts oil spill in 2008
- How the Google Reader team decides what to do
- Twenty minutes on the Deepwater Horizon
- Radical notion - the missing al Qaeda A team
- Welcome to the wild times...
- 50 million Neandertals living today
- Steam Hammer vs. John Henry 2.0
- What do we need to give Rupert Murdoch to save civilization?
- How to end the orange alerts
- Arizona and immigration - an inarguable response
- Teachers, doctors and pay for performance
- Anthrax - a cautionary tale
April 2010
- Google has an AdSense problem
- Stross on the post-PC world – mostly right
- The Cheonan sinking: insanity or accident?
- Causes of the Great Recession: China, GPSII and RCIIIT. Now for Act III.
- Winner take all - lessons from writing
- Palm/HP is still dead
- Apple next: MobileMe becomes the iPad host peripheral
- The Obama difference - Israel and Bicycles
- History is fractal - IOT the Zulu nation
- Gordon's Laws for software and service use
- Macroscopic quantum mechanics
- Do knowledge workers burn more cerebral calories?
- St. Paul (MSP) AT&T iPhone voice service now intolerably bad
- The new history is deep history
- How bubbles destroy software - the story of Broderbund
- Exercise, weight loss and dementia
- Hysteresis
- Electronic health record use and physician multitasking performance
- Cloud printing - 1994
- If computer technology had developed like health care technology
- xkcd spookiness
- Google Chinese to English - a rare good result
- Weingarten's accidental infant death story - now with a Pulitzer
- What iPhone multitasking can do
- iPhone OS 4: My wishes update and it’s Apple’s game alone
- Eating seaweed: Japanese gut microbiome bacteria are not like mine
- Understanding mine safety - the libertarian solution
- Minneapolis - best city in the US
- A sure thing bet on the LHC
- Google's machine learning system
- One of these things is not like the other: Gravity
- Tech churn: Cameras yes, but laptops?
- Analyzing Financial Statements
- A conscience for robots - and for humans too
- South Dakota - state of denial
March 2010
- Apple's next surprise: A Facebook alternative
- The Lonely Planet blog
- Health care reform – the road ahead
- Rwandan genocide and the Zani score
- Three NYT OpEds on the latest American extremism
- Miep Gies and the Zani score
- Dinosaurs born of CO2
- Summarizing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – in two pages and 10 titles
- If you laid every virus head to toe ...
- Best health care reform commentary
- Farewell Palm
- Ancient wisdom: Their experts are like your experts
- Top 50 children's film
- Things I suspect: generic meds
- Investing today
- Why we need to retire at sixty
- Why geek genes win
- Health insurance companies: only the demonic survive
- Texan textbooks: Hallucinations that may backfire
- Climate - How will history judge the Wall Street Journal?
- Political reform: Let's license legislators
- France has a carbon tax
- Was 10.3 the best version of OS X?
- Changing habits: How do I know what I don't know?
- Tech churn 2010: How do you share a family file?
- Vanguard - Adobe Reader required to access tax forms
- Minneapolis St Paul bicycle maps: Google and More
- Reimagining realtime focalcast communication – Buzz and Twitter 2.0
- Book Review: Three Steps to Yes - Sales for Poets
- Google translate 2010 - a marker
- Google car goes where angels fear to tread?
- Climate change, trees and your sinking home
- Google's problem is their corporate philosophy
- Google Video Chat: getting to the new world slowly
- Reflections on my personal bacterial companions
- The disappearing signature
- YouTube needs a pay-per-view solution
- We need translation on Google Reader for Mobile!
- Why Apple will lose the Google-Apple war
- Calvin, free will and me
- How I discover people to follow - on Google Reader
- Tea is the gateway drug to Militia movement
February 2010
- Snitty Apple Console message
- Reflections on friends who vote GOP
- Surviving corporate life - stand or sleep
- Fallows on the Nexus One - feel the fear Apple
- Canada v USA - bring it on
- The rise of software rental (aka software as service)
- The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics - explained
- OS X defect: The missing uninstaller
- AIDS, South Africa, Lysenko and Climate Change Denial - when ideology trumps science
- IOT Radiation: Gamma and X-rays
- The Houben story - things that are too good to be true
- Despair and climate change - a Grand Jury of Science
- Google has Aspergers
- Google's latest inadequate Buzz patch - Profile deletion
- American crisis – imagining a way out
- In Our Time archives - EVERY EPISODE from Oct 15 1998 onwards
- Good-bye Buzz – for now.
- The Buzz profile problem: I am Legion
- John Wooden - Pyramid of Success
- The Clampi Trojan says …. Get a Mac
- How common is Job?
- Lessons from my external drive purchase
- My apology to the political press
- Know when to fold 'em. Calvin and Hobbes.
- Apple and Amazon – Be nice to your science fiction writers
- Computers, viruses, intelligent design, natural selection, memes, mitochondria and, of course, the Fermi Paradox
January 2010
- Apple needs to do its own Flash block for Safari
- YouTube science videos - not exactly sterling
- Dear Adobe: Please die and take Flash with you
- Memories of Auschwitz
- Computing for the rest of us: The iPad and the ChromeBook
- First contact: we're cool with that
- iPad take 3: $130 for iVOIP?
- iPad take 2: the end of OS X
- iPad impressions
- Royal Society - video presentation on SETI II
- How to unlock a padlock - handy reference
- My Gwynne Dyer feed - at last
- Living with technology regressions in the post-performance era
- Xkcd
- Phishing with the post-Turing avatar
- Health care. We lost.
- Google trouble: Blogger and Search
- Is there a club for people who hate OS X permissions?
- Why we need Google Book scanning - the End of Eternity
- Who killed Instant Messaging?
- Window resizing - OS X vs. XP
- Haiti: Why I donate via CARE.ORG
- Innovations in comment spam
- Brave new world: China attacks Google
- Dark matter DNA
- Lessons from my leonine chat icon
- If you're wondering where your money went ...
- How removing my car stereo gave me my Apple iSlate prediction
- Inbox zero - mastering email
- Bermuda
- IOT: Samarkand, the Sogdians and the Silk Road
- Obama and the underwear bomber
- The spooky power of Google Suggest
- Archaic communications in 2010 - Gmail example
- Personal computing 2020: More and less
- From iPhone users to Google: Thank you for the Nexus One
- You too can visit North Korea
- GrandView and idea management software - Fallows and more
- Hotwire saved us $100 on a 1 week auto rental
- American spine movement: Brooks signs up