Unusual UI design considerations
December 31, 2007
Football history
December 30, 2007
Dumbest Bush adminstration legal arguments of 2007
December 29, 2007
Assessing the candidates’ digital policy
December 28, 2007
Registration for commenters enabled
December 27, 2007
Happy blog birthday!
December 26, 2007
Search forms should use the GET method
December 26, 2007
Going to the movies
December 25, 2007
The economics of Kayak
December 21, 2007
Minute fingerprints
December 21, 2007
Settling a bet
December 21, 2007
Apple and thinksecret.com settle
December 20, 2007
Quote of the day
December 20, 2007
MooTools developer kicked off the team
December 20, 2007
Gamers are clever freaks
December 18, 2007
Really organized crime
December 14, 2007
Amazon.com takes on the relational database
December 14, 2007
The one thing to look for in an interview
December 14, 2007
What’s a knol?
December 14, 2007
Movable Type Open Source
December 13, 2007
Best compliment ever
December 12, 2007
Fake municipal government in India
December 12, 2007
The future of timekeeping
December 12, 2007
The implications of the CIA destroying its torture tapes
December 11, 2007
Malcolm Gladwell on IQ and race
December 11, 2007
Building a community site these days
December 11, 2007
The bubble pattern
December 9, 2007
Why is Macrovision buying Gemstar?
December 7, 2007
It’s not subprime, it’s negative amortization and ARMs
December 6, 2007
Not fired yet
December 6, 2007
You can now use AIM from Gmail
December 5, 2007
ArsTechnica on ethics in the gaming industry
December 4, 2007
If you could only ask one question
December 4, 2007
US government thinks Iran isn’t working on nuclear weapons
December 3, 2007
You want to control your infrastructure
December 3, 2007
Don’t read CNET
December 2, 2007
Magazine marketing is all lies
December 1, 2007
A guide to judging a Layer Tennis match
November 30, 2007
Anthropological evidence, or fairness if you prefer
November 29, 2007
The new sports media empire
November 29, 2007
Timing out attempted socket connections
November 28, 2007
Google Storage, the next logical step
November 27, 2007
The Cambrian Explosion of communications
November 26, 2007
Apple needs to handle tabs more elegantly
November 25, 2007
The cure is worse than the disease
November 21, 2007
URLs by design
November 20, 2007
Random Kindle thoughts
November 19, 2007
Home cooks versus restaurant cooks
November 19, 2007
The cost of the war in Iraq
November 18, 2007
A true story about my Mac
November 18, 2007
Prizes are usually about love, not money
November 14, 2007
What’s the deal with Rackspace?
November 13, 2007
The WGA strike
November 13, 2007
The Android SDK is up
November 12, 2007
Armistice Day
November 12, 2007
Engineering and terrorism
November 11, 2007
Best site for WGA strike news
November 10, 2007
How the iCal dock icon in Leopard works
November 10, 2007
Greg Knauss on developers vs managers
November 8, 2007
What is Comet?
November 7, 2007
Grassroots Network Neutrality
November 6, 2007
The Google phone arrives
November 5, 2007
Why Apple fans have a grudge
November 5, 2007
A thousand flowers
November 5, 2007
Treaties and standards
November 3, 2007
The how and why of AT&T’s eavesdropping
November 2, 2007
This and that
November 2, 2007
Issues and the 2008 election
November 2, 2007
The pre-bankruptcy debt trade
November 2, 2007
Top Model Syria
October 31, 2007
Leopard and Java
October 31, 2007
Package scope and unit testing with Java
October 31, 2007
Is whois on the way out?
October 30, 2007
John Siracusa on Leopard
October 30, 2007
Forever ‘95
October 29, 2007
More on BitTorrent and convenience
October 27, 2007
How software warps your brain
October 27, 2007
The allure of conspiracy theories
October 26, 2007
How studying economics makes you happier
October 26, 2007
The state of politics today
October 25, 2007
Ed Felten on Comcast and Net Neutrality
October 24, 2007
More on bridge blogs
October 24, 2007
20 million virtual gifts
October 23, 2007
Did net neutrality die in its sleep?
October 23, 2007
Quality is the killer feature
October 23, 2007
The URL says it all
October 23, 2007
Bridge blogs
October 23, 2007
Nice quarter, Apple
October 23, 2007
How to get an innocent man to admit to being a terrorist
October 22, 2007
Recursion
October 21, 2007
Saving things in Ruby on Rails: the solution
October 19, 2007
Why root matters
October 19, 2007
Fun with saving things in Ruby on Rails
October 18, 2007
iPhone and network neutrality
October 18, 2007
iPhone SDK in February
October 17, 2007
Amazon.com one-click patent rejected
October 17, 2007
code.nytimes.com
October 17, 2007
Some thoughts on testing
October 16, 2007
LinkedIn vs Facebook
October 15, 2007
The Nobel Prize for Blogging
October 15, 2007
Evidence-based scheduling in FogBugz 6.0
October 12, 2007
Ian Rogers on DRM
October 10, 2007
On influence
October 10, 2007
YouTube and fair use
October 8, 2007
The North Carolina lottery is a bust
October 7, 2007
IE7 for everyone
October 4, 2007
suexec Blows
October 4, 2007
Developing for the iPhone
October 3, 2007
Amazon MP3 tracks don’t include watermarks
October 2, 2007
Thousands of Burmese monks executed?
October 1, 2007
Analysis and iPhone
October 1, 2007
Ringtone madness
September 28, 2007
Judge reverses two provisions of the Patriot Act
September 27, 2007
Reading the Bible
September 26, 2007
Burmese monks demand democracy
September 26, 2007
The new Amazon.com Music Store
September 25, 2007
Best recycling program ever
September 25, 2007
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Donovan McNabb
September 25, 2007
Expanding innovation in the mobile industry
September 24, 2007
Ditching Rails
September 23, 2007
MailPlane and specialized browsers
September 22, 2007
President Bush is afraid of horses
September 22, 2007
The origins of restaurant criticism
September 21, 2007
Six Apart’s great experiment
September 21, 2007
Sophia from Kid Nation assesses President Bush
September 20, 2007
25th birthday of the emoticon
September 18, 2007
Belgian separatism
September 18, 2007
Does two make a trend?
September 18, 2007
eMusic and Epitaph Records
September 15, 2007
The “fat” iPod Nano
September 15, 2007
Two views of regular expressions
September 14, 2007
I am not a systems administrator
September 14, 2007
Unlock an iPhone for free
September 14, 2007
The last word on climate change?
September 14, 2007
Thinking about unobtrusive JavaScript
September 13, 2007
One refugee’s story
September 11, 2007
The final word on the iPhone rebate
September 10, 2007
My old friend Perl
September 9, 2007
Links from September 8
September 8, 2007
Apple killed iToner
September 7, 2007
Apple just gave me $100
September 6, 2007
Kick the can
September 5, 2007
MarsEdit and Movable Type 4
September 5, 2007
Mortality salience
September 3, 2007
Down down down
September 3, 2007
Feed now served through FeedBurner
August 31, 2007
Unix command flag of the day
August 30, 2007
The original Macintosh user manual
August 30, 2007
How do prediction markets do?
August 29, 2007
QOTD: Harvey Pekar
August 29, 2007
Java is what it is
August 27, 2007
Since 2000
August 27, 2007
Upgrade fever
August 27, 2007
Links for August 26
August 26, 2007
Movable Type 4
August 25, 2007
Links for August 16
August 17, 2007
Karl Rove’s resignation
August 14, 2007
Anil Dash the work/home divide
August 14, 2007
Hands-on review of the OLPC laptop
August 10, 2007
Street Charity
August 9, 2007
Links for August 9
August 9, 2007
Web 2.0 vs Open Source?
July 31, 2007
Links for July 31
July 31, 2007
Bruce Schneier interviews TSA administrator
July 30, 2007
Avoiding Harry Potter spoilers
July 30, 2007
Obvious programming tip for the day
July 28, 2007
How’s the iPhone?
July 26, 2007
Links for July 25
July 26, 2007
Grim housing news
July 25, 2007
David Petraeus’ September progress report
July 24, 2007
Links for July 23
July 23, 2007
Today’s Links
July 20, 2007
Today’s Links
July 19, 2007
Yesterday’s links
July 17, 2007
Safari 3.0 is ahead of its time
July 16, 2007
Do you eat in the car?
July 13, 2007
Correspondent Inference Theory
July 12, 2007
My iPhone analogy
July 12, 2007
Whole Foods’ CEO is a message board troll
July 12, 2007
On the iPhone, you’re always root
July 11, 2007
Israel is pondering Internet censorship
July 10, 2007
Design documents for small teams
July 10, 2007
You never know who might be paying attention
July 9, 2007
An iPhone gripe
July 5, 2007
Testosterone makes you spiteful
July 5, 2007
Terrorism doesn’t work
July 3, 2007
Google acquires GrandCentral
July 3, 2007
eMusic/Internet radio mashup
July 3, 2007
iPhone activation hell ends
July 2, 2007
Google woos the health care industry
July 1, 2007
iPhone activation tip
July 1, 2007
I got an iPhone
June 30, 2007
The Flickr iPhone tag
June 29, 2007
Facebook is the new AOL
June 29, 2007
WSJ reporters walk out
June 28, 2007
Rhino on Rails
June 27, 2007
I am the perfect iPhone customer
June 27, 2007
Why “strict construction” is a joke
June 27, 2007
Early word on the iPhone
June 27, 2007
The clueless media
June 26, 2007
Another angle on database scalability
June 25, 2007
Will the bureaucracy save us?
June 25, 2007
The iPhone in the enterprise
June 22, 2007
The birds and the bees
June 20, 2007
The health care primary
June 20, 2007
The iPhone and Email
June 20, 2007
Search warrants now required to access email
June 19, 2007
Ed Felten on gold farmers
June 18, 2007
Golf is exciting
June 18, 2007
Not yet beyond surprise
June 17, 2007
Sy Hersh on the Taguba Report
June 17, 2007
Stitching conversations
June 17, 2007
Are book reviews a better deal than books?
June 17, 2007
Tivo UI Suggestion
June 17, 2007
The race for Ruby IDE support
June 15, 2007
Bruce Schneier on terrorism
June 15, 2007
Liberate the blazer
June 13, 2007
Misuse of scientific laws
June 13, 2007
The scale of America’s economy
June 13, 2007
More Sopranos commentary
June 12, 2007
Ron Moore on The Sopranos
June 12, 2007
The Sopranos Easter Egg
June 11, 2007
Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote agenda leaked?
June 11, 2007
Hillary Clinton in two paragraphs
June 10, 2007
Job hunting advice from both sides
June 9, 2007
Monit is on it
June 9, 2007
Movable Type 4
June 6, 2007
Zero day tracks
June 5, 2007
The PHP encapsulation problem
June 5, 2007
The BradLands turns nine
June 5, 2007
New OS, old problems
June 5, 2007
Gene Spafford on computer science education
June 5, 2007
The skinny on Apple’s DRM-free tracks
June 4, 2007
Anti-globalization riots in Germany
June 4, 2007
Stephen O’Grady’s giant Google Gears Q & A
June 2, 2007
Steve Ballmer is a peach
June 1, 2007
Sudan threatens global cola supply
May 31, 2007
Mark Cuban’s new pro football league
May 31, 2007
CBS scrobbles last.fm
May 31, 2007
Torture through the ages
May 31, 2007
Laptop as phone accessory
May 31, 2007
The rising cost of steak
May 30, 2007
Back door censorship
May 29, 2007
Mall of America
May 29, 2007
FreeBSD has arrived
May 28, 2007
Back in the saddle again
May 27, 2007
Downtime ahead
May 25, 2007
Curse Gaming runs Django
May 25, 2007
The Google Bus
May 24, 2007
The suicide bombing poll
May 24, 2007
David Plotz on the Middle East
May 22, 2007
Future proof Web hosting
May 21, 2007
Dead in the water
May 21, 2007
The case for .bank
May 19, 2007
Who planted the iPhone news?
May 18, 2007
Warp your brain
May 17, 2007
Ruby on Rails layouts and JavaScript includes
May 16, 2007
Visual Studio is deficient
May 15, 2007
Matt’s excellent tips on running a community
May 15, 2007
Stephen O’Grady on Microsoft’s patent assertions
May 15, 2007
Why artists tend to be liberal
May 14, 2007
Microsoft makes it explicit
May 14, 2007
Thinking like a programmer
May 14, 2007
A disturbing prediction for the British army
May 14, 2007
Afraid of flying?
May 12, 2007
Bye bye Blackbird
May 11, 2007
Brad DeLong on Paul Wolfowitz
May 10, 2007
The Iraqi refugee crisis
May 9, 2007
Why JavaFX isn’t competitive
May 9, 2007
The organic thrifty food plan
May 9, 2007
From the mouths of sportswriters
May 7, 2007
Troubling poll results
May 7, 2007
Moneyball everywhere
May 3, 2007
Ed Felten on the 09 dustup
May 3, 2007
Many news sites use RSS poorly
May 3, 2007
iPhone Pricing
May 2, 2007
Computers are disposable
May 1, 2007
Amazon S3 is getting cheaper
May 1, 2007
3qd update on Katrina recovery
April 30, 2007
The MySQL conference
April 27, 2007
New debate rule
April 27, 2007
Define irony
April 26, 2007
Prototype, Internet Explorer 5.5, and select lists
April 26, 2007
Backing up to S3
April 25, 2007
One Iraq prediction
April 25, 2007
Subclipse won’t be part of Eclipse
April 24, 2007
What’s next for the Bush administration
April 24, 2007
Southern Culture on the Skids
April 23, 2007
On the topic of eMusic
April 20, 2007
Another iPod theory
April 20, 2007
Big brother is watching you, and your pharmacist
April 20, 2007
Be careful where you enter your email address
April 19, 2007
eMusic is still growing
April 19, 2007
Using Yahoo Pipes
April 18, 2007
How big is the club?
April 18, 2007
Spammer infests hosting account
April 18, 2007
How to build online community
April 17, 2007
War and public opinion
April 17, 2007
Gene Weingarten on the Bush administration
April 16, 2007
Google is a big company now
April 16, 2007
Scaling Ruby on Rails, continued
April 14, 2007
One laptop per child
April 14, 2007
Andrew Leonard on Kurt Vonnegut
April 13, 2007
OS X release delayed due to iPhone
April 13, 2007
IT wages are going up everywhere
April 12, 2007
Voter fraud
April 12, 2007
Jon Carroll on YOYOW
April 12, 2007
Twitter developer: Rails performance blows
April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut, RIP
April 12, 2007
How programming is like golf
April 11, 2007
Links for April 10
April 10, 2007
Link roundup for April 9
April 9, 2007
Anil Dash on civility among bloggers
April 9, 2007
The idiocy of “The Secret”
April 8, 2007
The quotable Dave Winer
April 8, 2007
The wild world of intellectual property
April 6, 2007
The death of the record industry
April 6, 2007
Predatory mortgage lenders and credit snobs
April 6, 2007
Today’s victims of climate change
April 6, 2007
News breakout?
April 5, 2007
The grim toll of politics
April 4, 2007
When deployments go wrong
April 4, 2007
The Overton window
April 4, 2007
Keyboard shortcuts for tabs
April 3, 2007
What’s the Apple-EMI deal mean?
April 3, 2007
Slate is rebuilding its forum software
April 2, 2007
The case against torture
April 2, 2007
10 years of Scripting News
April 2, 2007
The Kathy Sierra incident moves into its final phase
April 2, 2007
You own your own words
April 2, 2007
The ubiquity of harassment on the Internet
March 28, 2007
Microsoft’s leaked memo on transparency
March 28, 2007
Are they really cylons?
March 27, 2007
I don’t understand
March 27, 2007
Tyler Cowen on a social safety net
March 26, 2007
The Blackberry defense
March 26, 2007
National security letters in practice
March 24, 2007
Evidence of Bubble 2.0
March 24, 2007
Twitter’s growth rate
March 24, 2007
Green Screen Challenge winner at The Colbert Report
March 24, 2007
Why the US Attorney firing scandal is a big deal
March 23, 2007
The prospects of NewTube
March 23, 2007
Markdown evangelism
March 23, 2007
Corrosive relationships
March 23, 2007
Returning to the scene of the crime
March 23, 2007
Consumer debt and recessions
March 22, 2007
Bad times for the CD market
March 22, 2007
RIP John Backus
March 20, 2007
Unlocked phones are OK
March 20, 2007
Ian Murdock joins Sun
March 20, 2007
Donand Knuth writes to Condoleezza Rice
March 18, 2007
Starting at the bottom
March 15, 2007
The male mind
March 14, 2007
How subprime mortgages work
March 14, 2007
Getting a feel for Twitter
March 13, 2007
Jimmy Carter and apartheid
March 12, 2007
The scandal that keeps growing
March 10, 2007
Way too much about Leeroy Jenkins
March 9, 2007
The SEC is cracking down on stock spam
March 9, 2007
Mark Frauenfelder on Colbert
March 7, 2007
Better backups using S3
March 7, 2007
The Red campaign is horribly inefficient
March 6, 2007
The war on spam
March 6, 2007
Is Lua the next big thing?
March 6, 2007
A profound thought on the EssJay affair
March 5, 2007
Good advice for software developers
March 4, 2007
Shoot the messenger
March 3, 2007
Who’s contributing to the Linux kernel?
March 1, 2007
Wikipedia editor lies, nobody cares
March 1, 2007
Do soldiers learn to torture from TV?
February 28, 2007
Today in poverty
February 28, 2007
Fidgeters of the world, unite!
February 28, 2007
Is your web site blocked in China?
February 28, 2007
Chris Anderson on the future of CIOs
February 27, 2007
On refusing to become an official campaign blogger
February 27, 2007
Why diversity matters
February 25, 2007
Women and men
February 24, 2007
Is MP3 the new GIF?
February 23, 2007
Nice work if you can get it
February 23, 2007
The ups and downs of OpenID
February 23, 2007
Are .plan files the direct ancestor of blogs?
February 22, 2007
Dealing with comments and feeds
February 22, 2007
Everybody loves cartoons
February 21, 2007
Salon had the Walter Reed story two years ago
February 21, 2007
A pipe from your Netflix queue to your DVR
February 21, 2007
Who says you can’t have it all?
February 20, 2007
Great customer service
February 19, 2007
Simple sketching application
February 19, 2007
Help with a dissertation
February 16, 2007
The problem of “rogue aid”
February 16, 2007
The 2006 Slate 60
February 16, 2007
Your permanent record
February 15, 2007
SCO is trying to find the blogger behind Groklaw
February 14, 2007
REST support to be added to the Java class library
February 14, 2007
Spinning Iran
February 13, 2007
Salon is profitable
February 13, 2007
Run a Web server in your browser
February 10, 2007
RU Sirius interviews Cory Doctorow
February 9, 2007
The NoScript lifestyle
February 9, 2007
Anthony Bourdain reviews Food Network personalities
February 8, 2007
Record company CEO says CDs are legacy product
February 8, 2007
Exercise and the placebo effect
February 8, 2007
Yahoo Pipes
February 8, 2007
The hidden cost of fancy bottled water
February 8, 2007
Larry Lessig challenges Steve Jobs
February 7, 2007
Ruby on Rails tools are maturing
February 7, 2007
Chalk one up for the little guy
February 7, 2007
Apple throws down the gauntlet
February 6, 2007
Setting up other accounts with Gmail
February 6, 2007
Resolving the NameError problem with Rails 1.2
February 5, 2007
Do programmers like coding for its own sake?
February 5, 2007
Your vulnerable search history
February 5, 2007
Adium 1.0 is released
February 4, 2007
What’s a mooninite?
February 2, 2007
iConcertCal, too cool for school
February 1, 2007
Churchill on democracy
February 1, 2007
Taking pictures in restaurants
February 1, 2007
Molly Ivins, RIP
February 1, 2007
Paul Boutin reviews Office 2007
January 31, 2007
Why Democrats shouldn’t abandon the south
January 30, 2007
Clay Shirky on virtual worlds
January 30, 2007
Scott Rosenberg op-eds the Vista launch
January 30, 2007
Ari Fleischer sinks Scooter Libby
January 30, 2007
Why my link blog is dead
January 29, 2007
Abbas Raza explains Shiism and Ashura
January 29, 2007
The imperial Vice Presidency
January 29, 2007
More than 100 federal court rulings have cited Wikipedia
January 29, 2007
Microsoft steals feature and patents it
January 28, 2007
A new opportunity
January 28, 2007
The conditional shuffle
January 26, 2007
Rands interviews TextMate creator Allan Odgaard
January 26, 2007
The “war on terror” in the UK
January 26, 2007
The origin of Windows Vista wallpaper
January 25, 2007
Diebold is dangerously incompetent
January 25, 2007
Romantic gift giving for pragmatic people
January 25, 2007
Desperate times call for NoScript
January 24, 2007
Microsoft pays writer to update Wikipedia articles
January 24, 2007
The exclusive Blockbuster - Weinstein deal is illegal
January 23, 2007
Keep your mouse off of those links
January 23, 2007
Flash for cross-platform GUIs?
January 23, 2007
The crux of the matter on health insurance
January 23, 2007
Less interesting
January 22, 2007
My problem with George W Bush in a nutshell
January 17, 2007
Defining your music collection
January 15, 2007
Yesterday’s question on Iranians
January 13, 2007
The Iranians in Irbil
January 12, 2007
Steve Jobs is wrong
January 11, 2007
Keypads are useful
January 10, 2007
iPhone Questions
January 10, 2007
Why I’m excited about the iPhone
January 10, 2007
The trouble with icons
January 5, 2007
The unit testing gap
January 4, 2007
Predictions for 2007
January 2, 2007
The execution of Saddam Hussein
January 2, 2007