the problem with experts
Alastair Roberts writes, Trump’s argument against vaccines works because people no longer trust the authorities —...
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readerly triage
In the first five pages of The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters says that media are “devices of information”...
features and featurelessness
I like the general theme of this post very much — we do pay a price, often too high a price, for adding features...
Then, Voyager
Voyager (which I mentioned in a previous post) was one of the coolest companies around in the Nineties; I was a devoted...
and yet more hatred
My friend David Michael of Wunderkammer fame points out a post by Will Leitch that, well, makes my previous post...
"I will hate you till the day I die"
We interrupt this hiatus for this message from your host. The other day I had an email exchange that went something...
don't forget magazines
Following up on Farhad Manjoo’s love letter to newspapers: Here is Michael Hirschorn’s mash note to The...
continuing the obsession
Book from the Sky, by Xu Bing:What's on those sheets on the floor? Here's a close-up:Well, those certainly look...
just a moment in time
Bill James, so-called "guru of baseball statistics" — he hates that moniker — and general Really...
zooming
I really love Scott McCloud's seminal guide Understanding Comics, but in general I'm not a big fan of...