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  • This Week in Indie Bookstores

    This Week in Indie Bookstores

    Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world.

  • This Week in Indie Bookstores

    This Week in Indie Bookstores

    Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!

  • Weekly Geekery

    A song of my selfie. A year after the Sony hack. Wired: the good and the bad and the in between. A visual history of the OS we all love to hate.

  • Weekly Geekery

    Are you a science dummy? Do you need to be happy? There is an app for that. The science of your face. Algorithms don’t know best. The history of Silicon Valley.

  • Internet Theories

    The development of the internet has complex cultural roots that divide over the different companies that were participating in its invention. The Apple/Microsoft “personalised, decentralised and playful computing” worked against “IBM’s idea of computing was of an expensive, centralised and…

  • The Story of Encarta

    From a New York Times article, published two months ago, about the end of the line for Encarta: “It’s hard to look at the end of the Encarta experiment without the free and much larger Wikipedia springing immediately to mind. But Encarta arguably…