Category Archives: Grim Meathook World

WE R ALL XPRTS NOW

Posted on 20 September, 2010 by Mike

CBC: Don’t text 911 RCMP in British Columbia are warning people not to text message 911 in emergencies. Sandy Vogstad, with the RCMP’s communication centre, said the province’s 911 system can’t deliver text messages. “It is the system in general … Continue reading →

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A clean, well-lighted past

Posted on 11 August, 2010 by Mike

You must read this fabulous essay by Gabriel Winant at Salon: The true, central catalyst of the war, which lent it its moral meaning — that is, slavery — was pushed out of mind. Even Northerners came to believe in … Continue reading →

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Greetings, Professor Falken

Posted on 6 August, 2010 by Mike

I am suspending my “do not link to The Atlantic” policy to bring you this fascinating article — Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders, Alexis Madrigal’s discussion of something that starts out strange, and then gets … Continue reading →

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Quick Hits

Posted on 8 June, 2010 by Mike

Item 1: We are so living in the future now, says William Gibson: Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Say that, last week, two things happened: scientists in China announced successful … Continue reading →

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A very British apocalypse, part II

Posted on 10 July, 2009 by Mike

(See also part I.) It turns out there was a prequel to Protect and Survive. Much to my joy, they’re available on YouTube (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7), and they’re even creepier than Protect and Survive was. … Continue reading →

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Ahhh.

Posted on 4 June, 2009 by Mike

After 6+ months of letting it pile up in my mailbox, I have managed to reduce my “unread, unsorted, and unreplied-to” collection of e-mail from 3,651 messages to 0. Okay, I had to vaporize a bunch of mailing list traffic … Continue reading →

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Quick hits

Posted on 27 May, 2009 by Mike

There’s new 365 content up at Flickr. It pains me to say this, but using Flickr for this project is about 900,000,000 easier than maintaining it locally. So Flickr is where things will stay. Facebook, however, is not in the … Continue reading →

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Truth in toons

Posted on 9 October, 2008 by Mike

Dorothy Gambrell gets it exactly right.

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The creepiest parallels

Posted on 12 October, 2007 by Mike

Jack Hitt wrote a fabulous article in Rolling Stone last month about missile defense, made all the more fabulous because it contained information relating to a defense or aerospace project that was new to me. As they say, read the … Continue reading →

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Hey! iPhone fanboys! Over here!

Posted on 10 August, 2007 by Mike

This is a really good question: I don’t understand why Apple made the iPhone deal with AT&T, since AT&T is – and I’m just going to say this [-] the company rightly most notorious for giving the worst people in … Continue reading →

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