Category Archives: Technology

Weather dross

For several years, I subscribed to the premium service of The Weather Channel, weather.com Gold. But some time early this year, it went missing, with no announcement or fanfare or whatever: “weather.com Gold is no longer available for new subscribers. … Continue reading

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The bitly dea(r)th watch

This is my fifth post about bitly (bit.ly, bitly.com), the URL-shortening service, in the past 18 months. The first three, written in early July 2010, were focused on two simple questions: (1) how large was bitly’s pool of unique hash-string … Continue reading

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The Mind’s Compound Eye

[This was originally posted on September 8, 2011, but had to be "reconstructed" following the crash of a MySQL server at my Web hosting service.] About a decade ago, Canadian artist Angela Bulloch, now based in London and Berlin, created … Continue reading

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Gullible HD

[This was originally posted on August 27, 2011, but had to be "reconstructed" following the crash of a MySQL server at my Web hosting service.] As hurricane Irene is crawling up the East Coast of the United States, it seems … Continue reading

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