September 2009
4 posts
“here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought...”
– A poem by Matt Harvey, in response to the British government’s formal apology for hounding Alan Turing to death. It’s only a so-so poem, by my tastes — very Philip Larkin — but I love that last couplet a lot! I’ve actually been sort of writing around that question in my...
“There’s no such thing as information overload but filter failure,”...”
– Great comment by Dennis Crowley of foursquare, in a story about location-based tech.
“the Kindle lets readers down with respect to one subtle but powerful element of...”
– Nice point about the Kindle …
