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Dear Students, My Job is to Kill Your Dreams 13 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
When the novelist Kelly Braffet was in high school, she had the worst English teacher of all time: One day, Mrs. Smith told us to write about what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wrote about wanti...
Escape the Walled Gardens with ZTE's Firefox Phone 12 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
On Friday, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE's eBay store will be selling the first phone in the U.S. that runs the new Firefox OS. The $80 ZTE Open will be unlocked so that customers can sign u...
MIT Puts Pop-Up Menus on the Real World 12 Aug 2013 | 05:40 am
The Fluid Interfaces research group at MIT is doing some extremely cool things with user interfaces and augmented reality (AR). One is to use a device such as an Apple iPad to make physical objects sm...
Zimmerman's Own Words Justify Martin's Punch 18 Jul 2013 | 11:29 pm
Since the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the conventional wisdom among people who agree with the verdict is that Trayvon Martin punched him first, so the teen was responsible for the fight that led to...
Stand Your Ground Let Zimmerman Go Free 15 Jul 2013 | 10:28 pm
There's a lot of talk about how Florida's Stand Your Ground law did not play a role in George Zimmerman's acquittal. His attorneys did not call for a hearing, as entitled under that law, but instead p...
Seth Finklestein Kills His Blog 3 Jul 2013 | 06:16 am
One of my favorite writers who covers the societal implications of technology, Seth Finkelstein, is shutting down his blog after 11 years. The closure of Google Reader this morning, which will cost bl...
TalkLeft's Unusual Comment Policy on Trials 2 Jul 2013 | 12:20 am
When I'm interested in a high-profile trial, one of my go-to sources for analysis is the liberal blogger Jeralyn Merritt, whose TalkLeft focuses on crimes with political implications. Merritt is a cri...
Another Girl Abducted and Killed in Jacksonville 22 Jun 2013 | 09:41 pm
I was jolted awake this morning shortly before 5 a.m. by the squawk of the emergency broadcast system on the television. An Amber alert relayed the news that an eight-year-old Jacksonville girl, Chari...
At the Annual Dancers' Ball ... 11 Jun 2013 | 12:27 am
I'm making a second attempt to read The Marriage Plot, a novel by Jeffrey Eugenides about a book-obsessed English major at Brown University in the early '80s. The protagonist, Madeleine Hanna, is give...
Frederik Pohl Remembers Jack Vance 9 Jun 2013 | 07:20 pm
Frederik Pohl, one of the founders of science fiction, is still writing novels at age 93 and has a blog he updates regularly. The Way the Future Blogs recently noted the death of another legend of the...
