The Great Works of Software

Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply…

‘JIF’ Is the Format. ‘GIF’ Is the Culture

A modest proposal

The Kindle wink

If you own one of Amazon’s e-readers, there’s a good chance you’ve accessed the “Manage Your Kindle” page at some point.

Do you notice anything strange about that URL? Much of it is just what you’d expect: H-T-T-P colon slash slash server slash something cryptic slash…

A Dazzling Film About Youth in the Early 20th Century

A review of Matt Wolf’s ‘Teenage’

Introducing The Message

A new collection for collaborative writing

Rule #1: Do No Harm

Rule #2: Fear-mongering is harmful

What If the Feature Is the Bug?

Election monitoring, new power of social media and old power of…

iPhone Dreams

Renders from 2006 tell us everything about what we used to think a phone could be.

Staring down colliders

Visiting CERN and the LHCb proton collider