The fine people over at Quandl made me aware of their new campaign focussed on data presentation. As a fan of the 'information scientist' Edward Tufte and someone who has devoted a few years of his …
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.â€
I think I disagree with him on some points ...
Last Friday I visited the Internet Archive. This organization was started by Brewster Kahle, who started Alexa and sold that to Amazon. He took his money …
There’s a lot of anger in the world right now. Maybe it’s always been there, but right now it feels to me as if I’ve never seen this level of anger before.
If that anger …
... but I think it is appropriate. My comment on Tumblr regarding a post from GapingVoid, where I rather unusually disagreed with his position.
My goodness Apple News is pernickety. Just spent two hours tracking down why three of my posts hadn't made it into the Apple News stream. All came down to tiny tiny errors in the HTML that Wordpress …
Just finished listening to the @davewiner rough podcast, where he talks about technology and politics coming together as one. I was reminded of Jeremy Heimans who talks of Old/New Power - Old/New …
When I first saw this reported on - Fusion.net - I assumed it was a piece of 'Onion' - but no - here is the Philadelphia News reporting how a Maths equation is 'frightening' - and 'terrorist-like' ..
the woman "thought I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper. I laugh. I bring them back to the plane. I showed them my math."
... not so much a bug report as a list of enhahncements ...
I have to post first - and then go back to add title, attachments etc - would be good to be able to do this all at once.
A simple way to allow …
Now that outspoken critic of Uber - Sadiq Kahn is mayor of London - I wonder if he will do anything about them ... certainly Rachel Whetstone isn't as connected to him as the Cameroon (sic) / Boris cabal.