by Patrick on April 23, 2009
The title of this post says it all. These are my thoughts, or in some instances, the thoughts of others that I have appropriated and reproduced here for your enjoyment (This being the internet and all): Dan Brown’s new book, which I mentioned in a previous post, will be about the end of the Mayan [...]
by Patrick on April 8, 2009
If “The Wire” were written today, would Barksdale’s crew be using Twitter in some ingenious way? I can just see Lester Freamon looking at photos of them typing away on their phones: “It looks like they’re texting, but nobody’s receiving the message.” I’d love to see the flip side of that scene, too. Stringer: “Bodie, [...]
by Patrick on April 1, 2009
Someday I’ll have something substantive to say. Until that day, thank god other people have websites! This has already been noted elsewhere, but click through and read this post at Black Plastic Glasses on “Why Ebooks Must Fail.” (And, as always, read the comments.) If I’m understanding it correctly, the argument in this post is [...]