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Entries from January 2008
The Trouble With Facebook
January 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Asides · Technology
The Year in Robots
January 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
They’ll kill us on the battlefield, they’ll play with our children. Scientific American describes The Year in Robots.
I Saw The Old Approaching
January 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments
“I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.”
Tags: Blogging
Damn Right Your Dad Drank It
January 18th, 2008 · 18 Comments
Closing the generation gap… with whisky, damnit.
Tags: Canadian Content · Daddyhood · Favorites · Found History
Monkey's Thoughts Propel Robot
January 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments
That’s an actual NYT headline: Monkey’s Thoughts Propel Robot. Troubadour Jonathan Coulton is the sole voice of reason: “Is this really a good idea?”
Tags: Asides · Robots · Technology
The Times They Aren't a-Changing
January 17th, 2008 · No Comments
What’s old is new? Unchanging Times uses the New York Times‘ archives to prove, again and again, that what’s news is old.
Tags: Asides
Gaudiloquent Flosculations
January 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Forthright’s Phrontistery presents a Compendium of Lost Words.
Tags: Asides
God Said No, Abe Said What
January 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
“The Titanic sinking, the Galveston flood, John Henry driving steel … This was the news that I considered, followed and kept tabs on.”
Tags: Blogging · Books · Old Weird America
