The defenestration of an icon. An act of sacrilege or an everyday technological activity?

Who woulda thunk that Stewart Brand would give the best Keynote/Ppt-type presentation I'd ever seen? There were so many slides I felt as if the whole thing was advancing with a life of its own. Lesson learned.

It may not be so bad to be packaged up by Garfield and exiled to Abu Dhabi any more. With Louvre and Guggenheim posts going up and a CSU-educated computer-savvy princess managing the economy, the place is shaping up.

Distributed human computing is digitizing documents and manuscripts as fast as the Internet Archive can supply them. Thanks, Cornell!

happy 25th!

Happy 25th birthday to the CD, which is only one year my elder but outnumbers me by about 200 billion.

Cappadocia -- another reason to visit Turkey. After the apparent vegetarian friendliness of its cuisine, as I discovered in Dorset.

Cute and vaguely novel, but otherwise, what's the point of recording to your iPod?