brainstorms [next bit]

things change. i just terminated three small (free/ad-free) ios projects. they will now be re-implemented on android for my nexus 7 and ph...

" jargon marks the place where thinking has been. it becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term, a way of storing a complicated se...

what is in plain sight is often harder to see for the mind is busy with a forest of possibilities but not a tree. [oz/12]

abelson's laws as found in "statistics as principled argument" by robert p. abelson 1. chance is lumpy 2. overconfidence ...

in the cellulose acetate and silver halide days of the past, i started out with manual "nikonography" . I guess it could have b...

most recent scam email i received in response to an inquiry about something on craigslist: Hello The item is available and it is like i...

a picture is worth a blog entry of words, so here is the picture of a pile of books i recommend for this month. all of these would make exce...

once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. -- carl sagan ["the demon-haunted world"] there is no...

kid and I are big fans of xkcd. looking at the strip, and thinking about the stick figures kids typically draw, i just had to cartoon this.....

[reblogged from my old blog at sun microsystems ] lately i have been enjoying david langford's witty and sharp white dwarf SF reviews ...

four jobs you've had in your life: cartographic draftsman [northway survey company], cartoonist/graphics designer, systems administra...

from chuck jones's eloquent and funny "chuck amuck: the life and times of an animated cartoonist": rule 1: the road runner ca...

make images every day. there is no such thing as *best light* or *best weather* or *best mood* for photography. no excuses. take it slowly...

Here are the 16 translations of basho's famous crow haiku i found in my library. earlier translations attempt to keep the 17 syllable f...

thom hogan puts it beautifully. Data is a great and powerful thing. Collect the right data and interpret it well, and you can make very inte...

every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half. -- nassim nicholas taleb's corollary to moore's law the question to be asked ...

in another blog , a long time ago, i had written this. a pleasant surprise: google maps now have detailed aerial photographs of istanbul th...

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions ...

we cannot afford as a polity to create classes of privileged speakers and press agencies, and underclasses of networked information producer...

a decade ago this month, i was sampling napster library content. not what you are thinking. only the symbolic content. this was a proje...