Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite writers, so I was totally stoked when I saw this post on Engadget describing how a clever programmer setup a script to take secret on the fly snapshots with the built in iSight camera. In Cryptonomicon, Randy Waterhouse is at a meeting with some shady people he’d like to get pictures of, so [...]

I was signing up for Google Checkout today and saw something neat, they’ve begun displaying a small logo next to their contextual ads indicating what sites use the service:

The fine folks over at GigaOM asked: “Will Spore Sell?“. It’s weird because in a sense EA is betting they will be wrong. If you go back far enough, you’ll find talks by Will Wright on how EA (and the rest of the game publishers) were totally against the idea of something like the Sims. It wasn’t a licensed property, [...]

I know I’m setting myself up for ridicule here, but bear with me as I attempt to do some simple math problems to explain why extended warranties aren’t a good deal (Inspired by Gizmodo’s endorsement of them for big ticket items today). First, you’ve got to think of bets (the gambling kind) as opportunities you can buy. For example: flipping [...]

Matthew Baldwin (the defective yeti), posted today about his decision to continue reading graphic novels and amusing things instead of Moby Dick. He’s missing a big opportunity as at an early age my parents did me a great service and purchased several of the classics for me in comic book form. When I think of Moby Dick it’s all people [...]