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Counterpoint. I don't think that the iPad and its descendants are the end of general purpose computing. I do think that having less ways to hack will lead to less hackers and makers.It's kind of like playing with a box full of random l...
Mark Pilgrim's excellent exposition on the "tinkerer's sunset" (an idea Alex Payne put forth in his iPad piece I linked earlier) got me thinking about the nature of tinkerers, and whether the iPad really represents a sunset for them. The optimist in me...
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Short and sweet. The other day, I wondered if it was a good thing about computers becoming more like cars: Interchangeable in that they get you from point a to point b but inflexible in that after they are built, they are fairly static...
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I love the concept. I would help buy Africa magic powerplant soccer balls!
A group of Harvard students are hoping that a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during normal play will help offset the use of kerosene in the d...
Anil Dash, tech blogger extraordinaire, put up a rather exceptional post on his blog this morning, lamenting the fact that a large segment of the geek will be riveted by Apple's product announcement today, when the company is expected to unveil some s...
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Annoying part of this is the hubris of "we could have built this two years ago".Bull.
HP last night posted a (rather boring) five-minute video (even the interviewer seems to forget where she is at some points) giving further details ab...
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I want to see the Fake Steve Jobs on this one! Its going to be awesome!
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet, iPhone OS Based, Going to Be “Terrific” — In an interview with CNBC, McGraw-Hill's CE...
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I have a few problems with this sort of blog post, which i'll share with you now Internet.Windows may be a "key disappointing detail" to the author, since he's apparently from The Future, but none of us have used it yet, so who knows w...
Ash.
This morning my attention was directed to the following article at Salon Magazine:
If I could kick a website in the ding ding my foot would already be behind my back and swinging forward with all the might I could muster, toe pointed forward, poised for a sure shot.
Salon (and they're not the only ones) ought to be ashamed for stating such a smug opinion on yesterday's meeting between the Whitehouse and the House of Representatives. Yesterday we witnessed a rare event that should be celebrated with a fervent demand for an encore and another and another. It should not be treated like a simple media event wherein tallies are made and a victor is announced. The entire point of the session was to but an end to the daily soundbyte sniper hunt and talk candidly without the interruption of pundits who are paid to pour gasoline on a tire fire.
It's easy for all of us to cynical (including the media) about what was said yesterday but we can't expect politicians to change overnight. We have had such a vicious decade of division that is not going to simply go away. Like all wounds, this will take time to heal and it is on us to stop running back to our ideological bunkers to dissect what was said into triumphant taking points.
Every voter in this union should take some time this weekend to thank their representatives for participating in yesterdays Q&A and encourage them to conduct more open sessions until it becomes a routine of our political culture, a structural thread in our evolving democracy. Write to the President and write to your members of the House. Meanwhile, we should harass and snub media outlets who seek to continue opening the divide between neighbors because civil discourse would likely mean lower ratings with declining advertising revenue.
Yesterday's open door talk wasn't perfect but it was a start. Lets go team go.