You might think, since I am a man of letters, that I earn my living via some intellectual leechery. Perhaps you have imagined I spend my days in an oak-paneled room, wearing a purple velvet smoking jacket, ruminating on topics of great interest and little importance.
Alas, it is not so. Despite my concerted efforts [...]

I want my brain connected to Google. I want to be able to just think of doing a search on a word or phrase, and instantly get the results, inside my head.
And, as long as we’re speculating wildly, I want it to be free.
Oh, I know it’s a long shot. It’s probably been considered [...]

Ok, it\’s not what you think. As much as I wish this post were going to be about little rodents giving each other the finger, it\’s not.

You can turn on "mouse tracks" while you do gestures, which doubles as a nice doodling tool.
It\’s about a plugin available for Firefox (Mozilla\’s lightweight browser that is [...]

Timberwolves, be gone with ye! I don\’t know why I do this to myself. I start actually caring about whether they win or lose. I start thinking that the outcome of this series will have some impact on my life.
But it won\’t. Despite how undeniably likeable KG and the gang are, and depite the Lakers [...]

Warning: this post contains graphic language and may not be suitable for young readers. Rated M, for mature.
Grand Theft Auto is a video game with prostitutes. It is not, I assume, the first video game with prostitutes, nor the last, but for some reason that has become its distinguishing characteristic.
Oh, sure, there are other [...]

Here\’s a New York Times articles about people who are content to stick with slow dial-up connections, not because they can\’t afford broadband, but because they don\’t want it:
[They] are neither Luddites nor laggards, but consumers content to pay for a service that is less than optimal, and at times even frustratingly slow, because they [...]

What if you could TiVo your life?
In a primitive way, it’s feasible right now. You could get a small video camera with a long-lasting battery. You could find a similar way of recording sound (or just use the camera’s microphone). Then you’d have a cell phone or something to transmit all that data to [...]

The more information you have, the harder it is to manage it. I\’m sure you\’ve experienced this when trying to sift through 20 pages of Google results.
Grokker is a search application that tries to simplify those result by displaying them graphically. Searches return results in clusters (represented by spheres) that are created by grouping [...]

Add this to the list of ideas I\’ve had but wasn\’t able to implement (OK, fine, the chances that I had this idea first are slim, but it feels nice to pretend.)
Trailblazer is a very lightweight browser for Mac that has a great graphical interface for looking at your history. It shows all the pages [...]

Well, I wanted to write something about how annoying it is when people justify what they\’re writing about by pointing out how many search results Google turns up on the subject, but I was scooped – Lies, Damned Lies, and Google by Lionel Beehner (and it looks like he got paid, too).
Of course Google turns [...]