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Paul Ingraham’s odds n ends blog

Major topics: technology (especially Apple), science & skepticism, media reviews & pop culture (especially science fiction), publishing, writing, and entrepreneurship.

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Sep 14, 22 25 years of mediocre but extremely enthusiastic ultimate: a memoir
Oct 29, 21 Instagram, a month of work per week, and the corruption of ideas
Oct 14, 21 Suffocating in slime
Oct 8, 21 Blocking YouTube ads
Oct 5, 21 “Do Not Track” isn’t working
Oct 2, 21 Key-pat panics
Sep 29, 21 The Imposter’s Handbook
Sep 4, 21 An RSS feed of book launches
Sep 4, 21 Trying to see the Milky Way in 3D
Sep 4, 21 Most epic typo evar?
Sep 4, 21 Mildly interesting currency data
Sep 2, 21 Transparent sodium under pressure
Sep 1, 21 Actions, meet consequences
Aug 27, 21 Vegan baking adventure
Aug 27, 21 Many tiny posts versus fewer somewhat larger ones: the final battle
Aug 19, 21 Apple’s messy podcast subscription service
Aug 19, 21 How the climate emergency accelerates
Jul 31, 21 Indie websites are a dying breed
Jul 25, 21 The final chapter of life
Jul 25, 21 On the “legitimacy” of vaccine hesitancy
Jul 20, 21 Out of the frying pan of COVID, into the fire
Jul 17, 21 The time for hesitation is over
Jul 17, 21 Invoice vs receipt
Jul 16, 21 Murderbot Diaries not quite winning me over
Jul 15, 21 Carl Sagan’s Star Wars criticisms
Jul 7, 21 The Tomorrow War is an extremely realistic film
Jul 7, 21 My SSD transition is complete
Jul 2, 21 Whip it real good: the actual distance record for a dog catching a flying disc
Jun 25, 21 Ratings reversal
Jun 25, 21 Not so foreign
Jun 25, 21 I watched a heron eat a big leech-thing
Jun 1, 21 Project Hail Mary ★★★★☆
Jun 1, 21 Energy weapon or mass hysteria?
May 29, 21 Reporting the media I consume
May 29, 21 An impossibly old star
May 29, 21 Gaga sings Smelly Cat
May 29, 21 Under the Skin ★★★☆☆
May 27, 21 Army of the Dead ★★☆☆☆
May 25, 21 Squirrels are amazing
May 24, 21 “kthxbye” explained
May 24, 21 Working with iPadOS is like wearing oven mitts
May 24, 21 QR codes still useless
May 24, 21 Apple finally fixes the app update bug
May 24, 21 Narcissistic flexing
May 24, 21 Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
May 24, 21 The Chicks vs. The Iraq War
May 22, 21 Too Like the Lightning ★☆☆☆☆
May 20, 21 Weird chronic illness versus weird COVID vaccine side effects
May 8, 21 Made for Love ★★★★☆
May 5, 21 Another Round ★★★☆☆
May 5, 21 Relativistic star systems
May 5, 21 The M1 clones are coming
Apr 18, 21 Misbehaving muons
Apr 15, 21 “Unable to Download App”
Apr 15, 21 Stephen King’s “The Tan”
Apr 15, 21 Balcony lady
Apr 10, 21 The new online store story (“If only I had procrastinated more”)
Feb 1, 21 Monarch butterfly counts in California
Feb 1, 21 Public health theatre
Jan 19, 21 The most dangerous lie
Jan 19, 21 Why so massive?
Jan 5, 21 Thermopolium
Jan 5, 21 Two interesting bird sightings
Jan 5, 21 Impossible to efficiently remove video data from Apple’s “Live” Photos
Jan 5, 21 It’s alive!
Dec 18, 20 I get it
Dec 14, 20 The M1 MacBook Air: Amazing hardware, shitty software
Dec 14, 20 I don’t know what COVID test result I want
Dec 13, 20 Cats like to sit on things
Dec 13, 20 You’re welcome
Nov 20, 20 Dwarf galaxies are my new favourite thing in astronomy
Nov 17, 20 Why does rebooting solve so many tech issues?
Nov 9, 20 Honesty is for people we care about
Nov 9, 20 Getting lost in the code library
Oct 19, 20 Thus was it written: quoting accuracy and pretentiousness
Sep 25, 20 “Have you turned it off and on again?”
Sep 24, 20 Beaten by Heaven
Sep 24, 20 Most beliefs are wrong
Sep 18, 20 A timely excerpt from The Plague, by Albert Camus
Sep 18, 20 Hypercanes
Sep 14, 20 A new type of Goldilocks zone for life
Sep 12, 20 Stolen Bike Part 3: The Haggling
Sep 11, 20 Peak denial
Sep 7, 20 Google snippet dates — a bag of hurt
Sep 6, 20 Neighbour loses his shit at tech constantly forever
Sep 3, 20 Best sprite photo I have seen so far
Sep 3, 20 Down with tracking!
Aug 24, 20 Three more ways masks help prevent Covid infection
Aug 21, 20 SETI marches on
Aug 17, 20 Keep waiting for Waiting for the Barbarians
Aug 13, 20 Stolen Bike Part 2: Recovered for different reasons than I thought!
Aug 11, 20 Stolen Bike Part 1: Recovered!
Aug 8, 20 The “asymps” are driving the pandemic
Jul 30, 20 Tempting fate and the return of Stompy McStomperton
Jul 28, 20 How many readers did I get from active Facebook posting 2018-2020?
Jul 22, 20 That “troll” might just be a kid
Jul 22, 20 Tonsil worms
Jul 22, 20 Tonsil stone symptoms that don’t get much attention
Jul 22, 20 Digression depth
Jul 17, 20 Writing for customers versus an audience
Jul 17, 20 Doomliving
Jul 17, 20 Critter counting
Jul 11, 20 Faking It
Jul 6, 20 How to take off a stuck ring
Jun 25, 20 It’s life, Jim, but it looks weird
Jun 23, 20 Wanted: A Mac app for repeating to-dos
Jun 16, 20 Impressive machine learning for plant identification
Jun 16, 20 “Books” so bad they don’t deserve the name
May 31, 20 Remembering my outrage
May 31, 20 The coyotes won’t scare
May 31, 20 Beating the “wrong” out of science writing
May 31, 20 The Canadian perspective on America’s crisis
May 23, 20 The Illuminati has invited me to join them at last
May 15, 20 “Like a machine”
May 15, 20 “The End” — Star Wars ends with a whimper
Apr 29, 20 AirPods Pro not as good for me as AirPods Amateur
Apr 29, 20 Dongletown
Feb 19, 20 Symlinks finally supported properly by Dropbox (at the expense of handy support for external symlinks)
Jan 15, 20 macOS still can’t shuffle a slideshow
Nov 19, 19 Speculation
Nov 19, 19 Websites are like young teenagers
Nov 19, 19 Apple Arcade games hopelessly buggy
Oct 12, 19 Eighty percent of tech support begins like this
Oct 5, 19 Dancing with entropy (in code and machinery)
Aug 20, 19 What’s so smart about it?
Jun 9, 19 Ghost penalties on domains
Jun 9, 19 Go see Booksmart
Jun 9, 19 Kempt, shevelled, and gainly
Jun 5, 19 Affinity schmaffinity! Still no export preview
May 30, 19 Game of Thrones: Flawed but still amazing
Apr 15, 19 Urgent “mobile first” design reboot for PainScience.com
Mar 22, 19 Becoming a little bored: review of Michelle Obama’s book tour
Mar 11, 19 Weirdest refund request yet
Mar 8, 19 The Favourite: micro review
Mar 8, 19 Exciting night of ultimate
Feb 25, 19 Hi from Christie! An impressive coincidence
Jan 2, 19 iPhone speed bump
Dec 28, 18 Online shoppers are determined
Dec 28, 18 Moat eel
Dec 28, 18 So many dusty old “apps for that”!
Nov 28, 18 Deep view of Andromeda galaxy beautifully shows the vastness of space
Nov 28, 18 Astrology book in science book display
Nov 8, 18 Reached a huge long-term fitness goal
Nov 6, 18 First Man: brilliant but surprisingly morose
Oct 27, 18 If the Republicans hold congress
Oct 27, 18 Thinking hard is cheap
Oct 27, 18 The yoo-hoo bird’s exotic identity
Oct 17, 18 I STILL GET ALL-CAPS EMAIL
Oct 17, 18 Kids these days
Oct 13, 18 Writing too much
Oct 9, 18 A Deepness in the Sky
Sep 25, 18 New anti-SLAPP laws in British Columbia
Sep 24, 18 Clarification trolling
Sep 13, 18 My bizarre Amway experience, 25 years ago
Aug 23, 18 A background of progress
Aug 10, 18 Another species
Aug 10, 18 Gaps between galaxies versus solar systems
Jul 26, 18 Pick fewer battles
Jul 17, 18 Corpse-flower viewing and private orientation
Jul 12, 18 First-rate sci-fi
Jul 4, 18 A new kind of AI
Jun 27, 18 More than economics
Jun 27, 18 Lame marketing and AI
Jun 23, 18 Slightly less screwed
Jun 23, 18 Nature at it’s weirdest and creepiest
Jun 23, 18 Keyboard condoms
Jun 13, 18 Exercise: vampire or muse?
Jun 8, 18 Comedic constipation and diarrhea
May 16, 18 There’s a special place in hell for true ramblers
Apr 26, 18 Actually “so bad it’s good”
Apr 20, 18 Pedantic petard
Apr 20, 18 Mystery victory
Apr 14, 18 Seeing stars
Mar 30, 18 A true oddball of a galaxy
Mar 30, 18 Bad Apple
Mar 12, 18 Dying with a sense of humour
Mar 1, 18 Lost and found
Feb 22, 18 Three odd entries in the Gym Diaries
Feb 13, 18 Five Apple TV bugs that make this gadget hard to recommend
Feb 7, 18 I know, right?!
Jan 15, 18 Chronic Pain and Tragic Irony: I started out helping people with chronic pain and now I have it
Jan 3, 18 You call that a head shot?!
Jan 3, 18 I wish I could have a simple iPhone again
Dec 15, 17 Pilot tries to make a funny example of me by confiscating my iPhone
Nov 29, 17 Worst ever Mac security bug found and fixed in a day
Nov 8, 17 Who is so feeble-minded or idle?
Nov 3, 17 Westworld
Oct 18, 17 Trying not to have uninformed opinions
Oct 3, 17 I need to talk to you
Sep 22, 17 My strange duty to 30,000 worried people per week
Sep 18, 17 The Publishing Paradox
Sep 15, 17 Toby Ziegler on scuba diving
Sep 15, 17 So this happened: hunting Pokemon for 1000km
Jul 5, 17 Weird, cool Queen concert follow-up item: the crinoline thing
Jul 3, 17 Another classic band on tour: Queen this time!
Jun 30, 17 Dear Excessively Polite Drivers
Jun 17, 17 Silly pet names
Jun 17, 17 Aphasia
Jun 3, 17 Midnight Oil again
May 25, 17 Sloppy bloggers yesterday, foolish ones today
May 24, 17 Dear sloppy bloggers
Apr 15, 17 Fuck you, namaste!
Mar 9, 17 You will use system text replacements in macOS whether you like it or not
Feb 22, 17 That Controversial New MacBook Pro (Touch Bar): A pretty good review
Jan 20, 17 Meat minimalism
Jan 11, 17 People who are bad with computers are “worse than you think”
Dec 29, 16 Apple’s Universal Clipboard feature “just works” only when it’s in the mood
Dec 15, 16 If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women
Dec 8, 16 Louis CK, Comedy Sorceror
Dec 1, 16 What White Privilege? What Male Privilege?
Dec 1, 16 “Long story short” never is
Dec 1, 16 Decades of average satellite imagery of global cloud cover
Nov 14, 16 Done with Trek
Nov 11, 16 All gave some, some gave all
Nov 7, 16 Sunset storm over the Georgia Strait
Nov 7, 16 A 1.2 muffin run
Nov 7, 16 The illusion of knowing
Nov 7, 16 Myths about myths
Nov 4, 16 If you’re dumb…
Sep 17, 16 iPhone “delivery”
Sep 12, 16 A Story of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Gone Horribly Wrong
Jul 23, 16 A memorable evening with Steve Martin
Jun 24, 16 Don’t try to change minds (directly)
May 4, 16 Not being a dick is still good SEO
Apr 8, 16 A better activity tracking app for Apple Watch
Mar 18, 16 Cali young and old
Mar 16, 16 The absurdity of loving and hating tech brands
Mar 9, 16 My most neglected high priorities
Mar 7, 16 Cold or flu? There’s no way to know
Mar 2, 16 How marketing created rituals
Feb 18, 16 Instant Hotspot My Ass: Apple’s super slow and unreliable “Instant Hotspot” feature
Feb 18, 16 What are the best books about writing style?
Jan 12, 16 Paul is feeling relieved
Dec 21, 15 The psychology of behavioural shifts
Dec 16, 15 20,000% increase in traffic
Dec 14, 15 A domain move disaster
Dec 11, 15 Warranties: the agony, the “satisfaction”
Dec 11, 15 HTTP/2 is going to change the Internet
Dec 9, 15 The Charlie Brown of power users
Dec 4, 15 2 days to watch rented movies from iTunes is not long enough
Nov 16, 15 Stressed about stress
Nov 3, 15 Not holding anything back
Oct 19, 15 A rock in my throat: The story of a terrible tonsil stone
Oct 16, 15 Actually maybe aliens at work: the plausibility of stellar-scale alien engineering
Oct 9, 15 The Martian ★★★★★
Sep 29, 15 Down the kimchi rabbit hole
Sep 15, 15 Dam sure SEO
Sep 15, 15 Quirky neighbhour
Aug 28, 15 Getting the Borderlands vibe right
Aug 19, 15 Resuming sort of (but goodbye, Twitter)
Aug 19, 15 The litany of Gendlin
Jun 28, 15 Maple canopy
Jun 26, 15 The ultimate learning curve
Jun 24, 15 Let’s go!
Jun 22, 15 Distractingly sexy
Jun 22, 15 A breakdown of trust in science
Jun 22, 15 How do you find out the top Google searches for a topic?
Jun 22, 15 Golf clap for JayBird Bluebuds
Jun 10, 15 Pretty predator
Jun 8, 15 Stained glass and light
Jun 8, 15 Efficiency
Jun 3, 15 The virtualization of life
May 26, 15 One thing at at time
May 19, 15 Game of Thrones stumbles (for the first time in ages)
May 14, 15 Cat holds her ground
May 13, 15 Ignoring the to-do list
May 11, 15 New York Times now free for some
May 11, 15 Caustic Soda lets ladies take over
May 9, 15 Hagiography
May 7, 15 The inventor of malls
May 5, 15 I like to sit at a desk and type
May 3, 15 Few really ask
Apr 17, 15 No Apple Watch yet: One deal-breaker to rule them all
Apr 14, 15 You’re overthinking this
Apr 12, 15 Laundry-pile-on-bed-looks-like-my-dead-cat illusion
Apr 6, 15 Still stuck with Adobe, because only Adobe exports well
Apr 5, 15 Weirdest fan mail ever
Apr 5, 15 Doing nothing
Apr 4, 15 A Manuka Honey Moment
Mar 19, 15 Authorized duplication strongly encouraged
Mar 17, 15 Metal fragments in Kraft Dinner
Mar 14, 15 The Secret Anarchy of Science
Mar 11, 15 Shirt alert!
Mar 6, 15 Several days off coffee now
Feb 27, 15 Goodbye, Spock
Feb 26, 15 Blind squirrel finds a big nut
Feb 19, 15 Lindy West’s remorseful troll
Feb 18, 15 Urgent low priorities
Feb 18, 15 Loose grammar
Feb 18, 15 Where the people are
Feb 17, 15 Tile review: meh
Feb 16, 15 One weird trick
Feb 15, 15 Huge, gorgeous astronomy photos
Feb 11, 15 Exquisite sewer
Jan 29, 15 Keeping Business Small: Why I rejected a real publishing offer
Jan 13, 15 Dressing up for working at home
Jan 13, 15 The madness of iTunes
Jan 12, 15 The shithouse porcupine
Jan 11, 15 Mist layers
Jan 9, 15 Sheet folding omen
Dec 31, 14 Plagiarism isn’t a mistake
Dec 22, 14 “Notification storm”
Dec 19, 14 Beware the tech
Dec 19, 14 Hindsight horrors
Dec 17, 14 Social media tour
Dec 17, 14 Google trials free medical consults
Dec 17, 14 Bugs galore
Dec 12, 14 Epic activism fail
Dec 12, 14 Stupid brain
Dec 9, 14 I curse you in the name of Jesus!
Nov 26, 14 Personal debunking
Nov 24, 14 Linking as Activism: The surprising political power of linking, when it’s done right
Nov 23, 14 Stonking
Nov 23, 14 PSA for cats
Nov 23, 14 Indexed but unranked
Nov 23, 14 AAS on The Shirt
Nov 23, 14 Many regrets
Nov 22, 14 Buh-bye Google authorship
Nov 22, 14 The month o’ two moves
Nov 22, 14 Changing Twitter handles is easy
Nov 14, 14 Teach the controversy
Nov 14, 14 Pseudo-scientists
Nov 14, 14 Beauty shots
Nov 13, 14 Don’t be so hasty!
Nov 13, 14 Dr. Oz mauled in snark attack
Nov 5, 14 Mountains, aurora, mind blown
Nov 5, 14 SPLAIN TIME PLZ!!!
Oct 30, 14 Nice DYAC moment
Oct 29, 14 Spiritual Walker weighs in
Oct 20, 14 Fair use of screenshots
Oct 20, 14 The autobody Buddha
Oct 9, 14 Lion’s Gate fog
Oct 6, 14 Give me your bag
Oct 2, 14 Three good memorization tips
Oct 2, 14 Lost
Oct 2, 14 You’re losing me, Green Party
Oct 2, 14 Speak to me
Sep 20, 14 Snark attack
Sep 20, 14 Godzilla (2014) ★☆☆☆☆
Sep 20, 14 Honesty prevails
Sep 19, 14 Zooming along cliffs and sea
Sep 14, 14 Owly
Sep 14, 14 Recommended photographers
Sep 11, 14 It’s quiet … too quiet
Sep 11, 14 Honest Trailer Proof
Sep 3, 14 Waves crossing
Sep 2, 14 Overcast’s Smart Speed: faster podcasts that don’t feel faster
Sep 2, 14 Hyperlapse
Sep 2, 14 Berry nice stretching routine
Aug 31, 14 Outlander: so far, so good
Aug 26, 14 Exploring Spanish Banks
Aug 26, 14 Test pants
Aug 26, 14 More and better ultimate all the time
Aug 20, 14 Forest
Aug 20, 14 Everything is critical!
Jul 23, 14 Brains is weird
Jul 21, 14 Fully understand science
Jul 19, 14 It slices, it dices!
Jul 15, 14 Burnout is a rich man’s game
Jul 9, 14 Know it all
Jul 7, 14 Grossness gets clicks
Jul 7, 14 The Sarantine Mosaic ★★★★☆
Jul 4, 14 The usual porcupine sex analogy
Jul 3, 14 Getting looked off
Jul 2, 14 Not even light can escape a black cat!
Jul 2, 14 Knives on a plane
Jul 1, 14 Victoria flowers, with and without colour
Jun 30, 14 “Teaching”
Jun 29, 14 Midnight sun selfie
Jun 29, 14 Bed & Forced Breakfast Socializing
Jun 26, 14 That’s not my thigh: the chapter with some sex in it (the better to make you click, my dear)
Jun 25, 14 Dead word
Jun 25, 14 Technically correct
Jun 18, 14 Hen-house guarding by foxes in alternative medicine
Jun 18, 14 The trouble with answering the phone
Jun 18, 14 Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
Jun 15, 14 The ultimate discovery
Jun 14, 14 Epic food safety fail
Jun 14, 14 Patrick Stewart supports dying with dignity
Jun 13, 14 Sooo uncomfortable
Jun 10, 14 Publishing strategery: how my blog-to-book plan went bad
Jun 10, 14 The syrup story: Chapter 5 of my odd success story
Jun 7, 14 iPhoto pain again
Jun 6, 14 A real vacation
Jun 4, 14 Good bill, strange oversight
May 26, 14 Proof of progress
May 26, 14 “Customer service”
May 26, 14 Anatomy of an anatomy course
May 26, 14 No Strings Attached ★★★★☆
May 21, 14 Elite, expensive massage training: Chapter 4 of my odd success story
May 17, 14 Casuistry
May 17, 14 Giger is dead
May 7, 14 Revenge of The Pig! Chapter 3 of my odd success story
May 3, 14 Sucks to be a nutrition website!
May 3, 14 Dear Dropbox, You Blew It
May 3, 14 After antibiotics
Apr 28, 14 Safe landing after a leap of faith
Apr 28, 14 1 in 30
Apr 28, 14 This ain’t over
Apr 28, 14 Is an expensive waterproof jacket worthwhile? How I finally learned what I needed to know about hard shell jackets by accidentally buying a good one
Apr 24, 14 The black coffee change
Apr 24, 14 Like gecko feet!
Apr 24, 14 How to use curly quotes on Mac OSX and Windows
Apr 24, 14 The Expensive Farm: Chapter 2 of my odd success story
Apr 19, 14 Run like it’s 911
Apr 15, 14 Writer’s Dreams: Chapter 1 of my odd success story
Apr 13, 14 Grass mystery solved
Apr 13, 14 Sticker shock
Apr 13, 14 The case of the missing space: Why did double-spacing disappear?
Apr 11, 14 Beating extreme worry
Apr 10, 14 How I make a good living as a writer
Apr 7, 14 It’s about time
Apr 7, 14 Tough daffodils
Apr 3, 14 Cursed! Cosmic malice on a small scale
Apr 1, 14 A virtual flea market
Apr 1, 14 From the Dept of No Fucking Shit
Apr 1, 14 Belisarius: Rome’s last amazing general, and the loss of Italy
Mar 25, 14 Wounded!
Mar 22, 14 Unguiculated
Mar 22, 14 Grammar matters
Mar 22, 14 Cranks shout
Mar 22, 14 Blindness ★★★☆☆
Mar 22, 14 Riddick-ulous again ★★★☆☆
Mar 21, 14 Basis smartwatch review: It may have more sensors, but it doesn’t seem to do much with the extra data
Mar 19, 14 Gears of War
Mar 18, 14 Sharing quotes in most ebooks is impossible
Mar 14, 14 Brain attacked
Mar 14, 14 Kermit on technology
Mar 14, 14 29 Inches
Mar 10, 14 So crucify me, I’m an iconoclast
Mar 10, 14 The other crotchet
Mar 10, 14 Recondite is recondite
Mar 3, 14 Not computer savvy? Or just chicken?
Mar 3, 14 “Sent from Broca’s Area”
Mar 3, 14 So exciting!
Mar 3, 14 Now I want a Surface
Mar 2, 14 Enough Said ★★★☆☆
Mar 1, 14 The Abominable Science of the Cryptids
Feb 28, 14 Bogus Bose
Feb 28, 14 Fuck Bluetooth
Feb 17, 14 Get Real: You Are Poor
Feb 17, 14 Most Embarrassing D&D Character Classes
Feb 16, 14 Organizing iCloud accounts for the whole family
Feb 15, 14 Distraction-free writing
Feb 15, 14 Write like you talk? Yes and no
Feb 15, 14 What writing success means to me (and more on writing)
Feb 15, 14 The Monuments Men ★★★☆☆
Feb 14, 14 Ender’s Game ★★☆☆☆
Feb 12, 14 Fitness mission accomplished
Feb 12, 14 Caring about language details
Feb 12, 14 Such a cockalorum
Feb 11, 14 No more dreams, please
Feb 11, 14 Ever get the sounds of words stuck in your head?
Feb 10, 14 The oldest title
Feb 7, 14 Creepy medical tour of the past
Feb 7, 14 The Great Book of Knowledge
Feb 6, 14 Sabbatical or meat grinder? About the word “sabbatical”
Feb 6, 14 A sabbatical post-mortem: Finish your career in just nine weeks!
Jan 6, 14 Half way
Nov 22, 13 Last post for 500 miles
Nov 21, 13 Uh oh, success! There are few things in life as demanding as an unexpectedly vigorous small business
Nov 17, 13 A less glowing OS X Mavericks review
Nov 16, 13 Angry Fonzie
Nov 15, 13 Kevin Trudeau jailed
Nov 15, 13 Belt mill
Nov 14, 13 The too-busy brain
Nov 14, 13 The emergency preparedness challenge
Nov 14, 13 Sort of an obsessed freak
Nov 14, 13 Well, there was a squirrel
Nov 14, 13 Sentient and bitchy
Nov 7, 13 Adobe’s installers have made no progress
Nov 1, 13 Poltergeist diagnosed
Nov 1, 13 Dork factor 9
Oct 28, 13 “Late for meeting” is a hit
Oct 26, 13 Misty photos
Oct 24, 13 Pseudo-science is all grown up
Oct 24, 13 I can’t hear you
Oct 24, 13 Hotmail haters
Oct 24, 13 Honey, I’m home! But you knew that already…
Oct 24, 13 Dictation error of the week
Oct 17, 13 Groovy sunset semi-fog
Oct 16, 13 Tomorrow, the world
Oct 16, 13 After Earth ★★☆☆☆
Oct 8, 13 “Danger Park”?
Oct 1, 13 Psychic didn’t see it coming
Oct 1, 13 Fiction & Science Fiction in Ancient Rome
Sep 29, 13 Storytelling fail
Sep 29, 13 No comment
Sep 29, 13 Commenting is not a civil right
Sep 29, 13 Argumentum superiorum
Sep 28, 13 Satire blindness
Sep 28, 13 JAQing off
Sep 28, 13 Gamer ★★☆☆☆ Not much fun
Sep 28, 13 Admission ★★★☆☆ Well, I liked it anyway
Sep 25, 13 Entitlement voice mail
Sep 25, 13 Marsbound etc ★☆☆☆☆
Sep 25, 13 Triple trunks
Sep 25, 13 What’s useful in iOS 7 (and not one word about aesthetics)
Sep 20, 13 This is web development
Sep 17, 13 How tsunamis work (plus bonus cool illusion)
Sep 13, 13 Target Blank Is Evil
Sep 3, 13 Half hour run
Sep 3, 13 Hey, introverts! Small talk isn’t “shallow,” you just suck at it
Sep 3, 13 Yet another Pebble review (but this one mentions things I didn’t read about anywhere else)
Aug 29, 13 Jawbone’s Jambox too clever by two-thirds
Aug 29, 13 Elysium ★★☆☆☆ Shallow & noisy
Aug 28, 13 The burn burns
Aug 27, 13 Things that talk to you in the night
Aug 27, 13 Goodbye awesome croissants!
Aug 22, 13 Unflappable
Aug 21, 13 The early Roman emperors, quickly
Aug 19, 13 “I could steal that bike for you.”
Aug 19, 13 Agora ★★★★☆ Inspiring then depressing
Aug 19, 13 Centurion & The Eagle ★★★☆☆ A pair of 2011 films about the 9th Legion
Aug 14, 13 Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, and when to worry about back pain
Aug 9, 13 Incredible journey
Aug 9, 13 iOS and photo backups
Aug 9, 13 Coffee-powered
Jul 31, 13 Got trolls?
Jul 30, 13 Writing documentation
Jul 29, 13 Animal reunions
Jul 28, 13 So unrealistic
Jul 27, 13 Transparent animals
Jul 26, 13 BBEdit release notes
Jul 24, 13 Runner’s high
Jul 24, 13 Mighty blueberry
Jul 20, 13 Summer leaves
Jul 11, 13 The Tunguska explosion explained!
Jun 24, 13 The Impossible ★★★☆☆
Jun 24, 13 Oz the Great & Powerful ★☆☆☆☆
Jun 24, 13 Chasing Ice ★★★★☆
Jun 15, 13 Emergency power
Jun 11, 13 Survival skills
Jun 3, 13 Burrard Bridge
May 29, 13 Room 237 abuses The Shining and Kubrick
May 17, 13 Justice is tricky
May 17, 13 Finally: Major League Ultimate
May 10, 13 Victory!
May 9, 13 Gone Girl review
May 4, 13 Shayne's 1st tweet
Apr 20, 13 Life on Earth: Dazzling interactive animations, and not much else
Apr 17, 13 Under Heaven
Apr 13, 13 The plight of the mediocre command-line wizard
Mar 30, 13 The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Mar 20, 13 One lucky week: how I was hooked into business by an illusion
Mar 3, 13 Spoiler alert! The fate of every successful species is to wipe itself out
Feb 26, 13 “My God … it’s full of tweets …”
Feb 15, 13 The Epic Stinging Stump Coincidence
Feb 15, 13 Great moments in audio production
Feb 13, 13 The Sonic Hedgehog Gene
Feb 13, 13 One of the biggest boners in ethical philosophy
Feb 13, 13 Finally, mostly out of pain
Feb 12, 13 Daisy-chaining with thunderbolt
Feb 10, 13 The Comfort Kit! An emergency kit for modern living
Feb 10, 13 Srsly, universe?
Feb 10, 13 The Secret Origin of Windows
Feb 9, 13 Raining face huggers
Feb 8, 13 Spell Tower addiction
Feb 8, 13 Get The Room
Feb 3, 13 How & why to link: a super simple guide to good internet linking
Feb 3, 13 One of the finest hours of TV drama ever filmed
Jan 16, 13 Keurig Fail
Jan 15, 13 Swat
Jan 13, 13 Just try to unsubscribe
Jan 12, 13 Most writing is too long
Jan 11, 13 Fix the file-drawer effect!
Jan 9, 13 Sometimes it takes all my strength not to be superstitious
Jan 9, 13 Giant squid filmed
Jan 8, 13 Ignoring hate mail
Jan 7, 13 SPF Validation: The email spoof-busting technology that sounds like sunscreen
Jan 6, 13 Your scripts, fast!
Dec 31, 12 Acute Hyperprojectemia
Dec 24, 12 OS X’s LaunchPad: actually kind of great
Dec 23, 12 Autocorrection or false-positive generator? One of Mac OS X Lion’s weakest features
Dec 23, 12 3 Common Scams in 2012
Dec 22, 12 JW calling
Dec 22, 12 Possibly prolific
Dec 20, 12 Mail search and “smart” mailboxes in Mac OS X Lion: the biggest promise and the biggest letdown
Dec 19, 12 Anti-monial
Dec 17, 12 Snow White and the Huntsman: under-rated high fantasy ★★★★☆
Dec 14, 12 It’s science
Dec 14, 12 Rivalling the tragedy of wars, plagues & famines
Dec 13, 12 Time Machine: still a janky mess
Dec 13, 12 The view from above
Dec 10, 12 Eek…yuck…phew! Emotional reactions to my competition
Dec 10, 12 So you think you want some AirPlay speakers
Dec 8, 12 And Lion’s "New" Mail? Oh, unredeemable Mail…
Dec 3, 12 Reading is dangerous
Nov 29, 12 The Lion Recovery Partition is pure goodness
Nov 23, 12 Hunger cure
Nov 22, 12 The Trouble With Unitless Line-Heights: How to (efficiently) declare lots of line-heights in CSS for multiple target layouts
Nov 20, 12 I charged my phone with the sun!
Nov 20, 12 Evernote, you’re going the wrong way
Nov 20, 12 Are humans born to run?
Nov 17, 12 Trust us
Nov 16, 12 Skyfall
Nov 15, 12 I have the gift of touch
Nov 14, 12 “I’ll make this short” means “I’ll ramble for 10 paragraphs”
Nov 11, 12 Lone tree hill
Nov 9, 12 Why breathing through a tube can be dangerous
Nov 8, 12 Wet leaf
Nov 8, 12 Oh, Canada! Huge copyright law upgrade
Nov 6, 12 Lit up tree
Nov 4, 12 The Kamakura Buddha
Nov 3, 12 White Wedding, Unplugged by Ian Kelly
Oct 30, 12 Tricorder settings
Oct 29, 12 Not so hot hotspot
Oct 15, 12 If you think your life sucks, it will
Oct 7, 12 I’m a professional buzzkill
Oct 6, 12 RTFM
Oct 5, 12 Easy to criticize
Oct 2, 12 Stunning cloud delta
Sep 30, 12 Linking Etiquette
Sep 30, 12 Why You Should Publish Straightforward Contact Information on Your Website
Sep 30, 12 Dragon Dictate ★★☆☆☆
Sep 30, 12 We can do better
Sep 30, 12 These cranks drive me nuts
Sep 30, 12 Spooky accurate Frisbee throwing
Sep 30, 12 A sad, beautiful view
Sep 27, 12 Science blogging’s role
Sep 25, 12 Meeting a troll
Sep 22, 12 Maps perspective
Sep 21, 12 Freaked out
Sep 20, 12 The end of old browser support
Sep 19, 12 The knowledge needed to save my son’s life
Sep 18, 12 Happy to know you from internet
Sep 17, 12 Things 2 is amazing
Sep 17, 12 No, you may not have my postal code!
Sep 17, 12 Inspiring consumer activism
Sep 13, 12 Same answer as 5 minutes ago
Sep 11, 12 “Typing was women’s work.”
Sep 10, 12 Fax? Srsly?
Sep 10, 12 Bluetooth pairing is random
Aug 29, 12 Wanderlust ★★☆☆☆ Rudd does Rudd
Aug 29, 12 The future is friendly
Aug 28, 12 Wrath of the Titans ★★★☆☆ A self-aware, winking romp
Aug 28, 12 Total Recall ★★☆☆☆ Guilty-pleasure only!
Aug 27, 12 Indie Game ★★★☆☆ Brilliantly filmed, surprisingly tense
Aug 19, 12 Gabriola sandstone & glamour
Aug 12, 12 Muddy in PG
Aug 7, 12 Hope: Always a bestseller
Aug 6, 12 sen-ten-tious
Aug 6, 12 Insecure and unhappy childhoods
Aug 6, 12 Martian bandwidth
Aug 4, 12 Mountain Lion review in (26) bullet points
Aug 4, 12 The mind in cancer
Aug 3, 12 What’s a claim?
Aug 3, 12 Siri failures
Jul 30, 12 Major ethical faux pas
Jul 30, 12 An albino, a mosquito
Jul 29, 12 It Figures
Jul 27, 12 More Prometheus mockery, more!
Jul 23, 12 Attack the Block ★★★☆☆ Maybe a little over-rated, but fresh and fun
Jul 14, 12 The Descendants ★★★☆☆ Nice, but enough with the ukulele
Jul 14, 12 Prometheus ★☆☆☆☆ The Alien franchise sinks even lower still
Jul 14, 12 Brain tingling
Jul 14, 12 Does your head tingle when you learn something cool?
Jul 12, 12 First Retina Mac
Jul 11, 12 Scene on Vancouver’s seawall
Jul 11, 12 WebKit forever
Jul 10, 12 Happy to be alive
Jul 9, 12 Fine-grained control is back
Jul 9, 12 Octopus attack on a seagull
Jul 2, 12 And there I am again: what it feels like to be regularly cited by strangers around the world
Jun 29, 12 We Die Alone
Jun 29, 12 The “integrated medicine” straw-man:
Jun 27, 12 And who the hell TALKS on their phones anymore anyway?
Jun 22, 12 True Customer Service Story: A slice of the e-business life
Jun 22, 12 Today’s hate/hug mail
Jun 19, 12 Quoted in a best-selling book
Jun 16, 12 Some people think Prometheus is a great film
Jun 14, 12 Do not pander to ignorance
Jun 13, 12 Getting “The Future” Right
Jun 12, 12 Torturing data
Jun 11, 12 A wonderful Prometheus snark-a-thon
Jun 6, 12 Some people turn sad awfully young
Jun 6, 12 Bradbury on illiteracy
Jun 6, 12 The knowledge gap
Jun 2, 12 A pretty darn harsh review of Coda 2
Jun 1, 12 Cat not included
May 24, 12 It is known
May 15, 12 Libel reform well underway in England
May 15, 12 The rest of the internet is full of it!
May 12, 12 Pairing Apple wireless keyboards, mice, trackpads: always a hassle
Apr 27, 12 The Station Agent ★★★★★ Peter Dinklage (long) before Game of Thrones
Apr 25, 12 Everything Must Go ★★★★☆ Pleasingly simple, engaging
Apr 25, 12 DRM-free SF&F
Apr 22, 12 A Bond To Last A Lifetime, One Year Later
Apr 19, 12 SolarWalk ★★★★☆
Apr 19, 12 SkySafari ★★★★★
Apr 19, 12 Ghost Protocol ★★★☆☆ Over-rated!
Apr 19, 12 Astronomy hobby rebooted!
Apr 15, 12 Life is rough
Apr 8, 12 No on-device data plan activation on the 4G iPad
Apr 2, 12 How many calories is it really? The dissection and analysis of Sushi Combi B
Apr 2, 12 How I lost 25 lbs and why I couldn’t have done it without beer
Mar 31, 12 iPad 3 ★★★★☆
Mar 28, 12 F.lux ★★★★★ Perfect little thing
Mar 25, 12 The deep cosmos at 264 pixels per inch: a monster astrophoto on the new iPad
Mar 22, 12 Talhotblond ★★★☆☆
Mar 15, 12 The myth of the sideline trap in ultimate: Why “trap for one” is a bad idea that usually gets your team broken and scored on
Mar 15, 12 A 50-soak read ★★★★☆: Grammar book read exclusively in the hot tub over more than a year
Mar 15, 12 No more skimping on web image quality
Mar 13, 12 The Way Back ★★★☆☆ A really long walk makes for sparse drama
Mar 13, 12 iOS iPhoto ★★☆☆☆ Cryptic, balky, unsynced
Mar 12, 12 The Sea Inside ★★★★★ Great, but sooo depressing!
Mar 12, 12 Ponyo ★★★☆☆ Meh
Mar 10, 12 The pain of its/it’s
Mar 9, 12 Ice shrapnel
Mar 4, 12 xScope ★★★★★
Mar 4, 12 Game of Thrones ★★★★☆
Mar 2, 12 The user-unfriendly future of books
Feb 26, 12 Grossly misrepresented & vilified
Feb 26, 12 Organisms having a very bad day
Feb 23, 12 School + work = oomph
Feb 17, 12 Take Shelter ★★★★★ Easiest film to spoil ever
Feb 17, 12 My NY Times Subscription decision
Feb 15, 12 Conan the Barbarian ★★☆☆☆Tedious!
Feb 14, 12 The Ides of March ★★★☆☆ A skillful film, but grim, tense and bitter
Feb 14, 12 The Guard ★★★★☆
Feb 13, 12 Worst exam experience ever?
Feb 8, 12 Catvertising
Feb 5, 12 “Natural” beauty
Feb 5, 12 History of Medical Discoveries
Feb 5, 12 How much longer until I know everything?
Jan 30, 12 Apple’s Address
Jan 23, 12 How to read a Kindle book on two devices (after someone else in the family)
Jan 10, 12 Final OS X Lion review (shotgun) blast: a little bit of everything
Jan 10, 12 Micro-review of iOS 5: Stability has left the building
Jan 10, 12 Micro-review of iCloud: Better than its sucky predecessor
Jan 4, 12 The ethics of truth-telling
Jan 2, 12 What the actual fuck, biology?
Jan 1, 12 Sherlock Holmes: ★★☆☆☆
Dec 28, 11 Some of Mac OS X Lion’s animations really miss the mark
Dec 28, 11 Three days of gluttony
Dec 28, 11 Galileo, the first modern scientist
Dec 28, 11 Easily amused
Dec 26, 11 Don’t Be A Free User
Dec 26, 11 Being a geek
Dec 25, 11 War Horse ★★☆☆☆ Spielberg at his mediocre worst
Dec 12, 11 On being massively retweeted
Dec 12, 11 Cargo review ★☆☆☆☆ Where’s the “smart,” exactly?
Dec 10, 11 Magical thinking in medicine, then and now
Dec 10, 11 NCCAM boondoggles
Dec 8, 11 Jury is out
Dec 7, 11 Quick brown fox
Dec 5, 11 Help! I’m in love with my unreliable assistant! Siri's stability issues (not recognition), after her debut
Dec 4, 11 Finder & Mail: Core apps that still suck in Mac OS X Lion
Nov 23, 11 Subatomic comets
Nov 23, 11 From the Department of Crazy Waste
Nov 22, 11 The law of low tech standards
Nov 20, 11 Mac OS X Lion: An allegedly mature OS?
Nov 19, 11 AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER TAP TO SET A TIMER AGAIN!
Nov 18, 11 Priority Pie! Graphing procrastination
Nov 14, 11 An office for writing, at last!
Nov 14, 11 Three giant Apple displays and how (and why) I manage and use them, especially the brightness problem
Nov 14, 11 New office art
Nov 11, 11 Before the leaf blowers.
Nov 11, 11 Assume I know everything
Nov 4, 11 Spirituality versus religiosity
Nov 1, 11 Googling Your Brain: How (and why) to build your own everything database
Oct 21, 11 Reserving judgement on Steve Jobs’ health choices
Oct 6, 11 Skeptics, please reserve judgement about Steve Jobs’ alleged use of alternative medicine
Oct 2, 11 Irony detection
Sep 23, 11 The far side of Saturn
Sep 23, 11 Not exactly “shocked”
Sep 21, 11 Finding the time to write is like finding room for an elephant in the garden shed
Sep 20, 11 The straw man of climate change denial
Sep 16, 11 The Ghost Brigades Review
Sep 16, 11 Reluctant self-publishing
Sep 4, 11 Troll Hunter micro-review
Sep 4, 11 Returning to science fiction after a 15-year pause
Sep 1, 11 More about Google’s moral decay
Aug 24, 11 Snakes!
Aug 19, 11 Southern Gulf Islands
Aug 16, 11 my xkcd picks
Aug 13, 11 Nutty hate mail from a massage therapist
Aug 11, 11 Save “beg the question”!
Aug 5, 11 A game point, and the best life has to offer
Aug 3, 11 Best and worst of Amsterdam
Jul 28, 11 “Wasting” time
Jul 27, 11 And then I have a valid martini
Jul 26, 11 When Patents Attack!
Jul 22, 11 Messing with our heads
Jul 20, 11 Before you install a new version of OS X: important safety tips!
Jul 18, 11 My first “viral” article? A writer’s case report
Jul 15, 11 How I met my wife and she totally thought I was gay
Jul 14, 11 Nom nom nom
Jul 3, 11 Micro Review: Old Man’s War is pulpy fun from a fine writer
Jul 3, 11 Burrard Bridge plus sunset
Jun 25, 11 Super 8 is about itself
Jun 25, 11 Now that’s how you make a villain! How X-Men First Class got it right (and Lucas got it wrong)
Jun 20, 11 David Freedman does not actually like science
Jun 20, 11 Cat tree gets new cat
Jun 16, 11 Do cats have nightmares?
Jun 15, 11 My first tech prediction wins! Apple “loses” scrap over subscriptions
Jun 13, 11 Goodbye, Lovely Cat
Jun 13, 11 Curled Cali
Jun 7, 11 You Have Been Poked by God
Jun 4, 11 Ice erection
Jun 1, 11 Neat Canada goose behaviour
Jun 1, 11 Belief comes quickly
May 22, 11 The grind of entrepreneurship: hyper-vigilant e-business babysitting while on holiday in Amsterdam
May 13, 11 Making the web look more like I’ve been doing it all along
May 10, 11 Canyon
May 1, 11 A SETI Infographic: Priorities of the Human Species
Apr 24, 11 Wading at Buntzen
Apr 23, 11 Mind-changing
Apr 22, 11 Imagine better haircuts
Mar 31, 11 Solar System Ebook/App for the iPad
Mar 31, 11 The Known Universe
Mar 31, 11 New eyes
Mar 16, 11 Return vs Enter on Facebook
Mar 14, 11 Ebert rips Battle: LA a new one
Mar 13, 11 Monsters Mini-Review ★★★★☆ Moody and intriguing, but a bit boring
Mar 11, 11 I, Pad: The First Year
Mar 5, 11 Techspective
Mar 4, 11 How would you like your _____? Pick two
Mar 2, 11 What do you think science is?
Feb 28, 11 F for effort
Feb 23, 11 Deepak Petard
Feb 21, 11 Homeopathic placebo for animals
Feb 20, 11 Grading grades
Feb 19, 11 Re: your stupid link exchange request
Feb 19, 11 Hyphenation
Feb 19, 11 Making something public
Feb 18, 11 Forge your own future
Feb 14, 11 The roundest object in the world
Feb 8, 11 Home from the air
Feb 8, 11 Complain to publishers about crap e-books
Feb 6, 11 Anti-intellectual worship of weak “mysteries”
Feb 2, 11 Qualicum Beach sunrise
Feb 2, 11 Gruber gushes about ebook app
Jan 28, 11 That didn’t take long
Jan 26, 11 Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
Jan 25, 11 Reservoir Dogs in 60 Seconds
Jan 20, 11 “Ebooks” link got clicked a lot less than “tutorials” link
Jan 16, 11 Just how open?
Jan 14, 11 There is a cost to all liberty
Jan 12, 11 Hypotheses function as beliefs in alternative medicine
Jan 9, 11 Psychics bombed their 2010 test
Jan 5, 11 Dawkins on the horror of the “circle of life”
Jan 4, 11 Magazines for life: results of a poll among friends
Jan 3, 11 W in fog
Jan 2, 11 Science Fiction Fans: Lower Your Standards!
Dec 29, 10 Mac Tip: Set a primary email address for a contact
Dec 29, 10 Gullible masses: stop confusing “studied & disproved" with “unproved”
Dec 28, 10 Micro-review of The King’s Speech
Dec 27, 10 Placebo hype must die!
Dec 24, 10 The worst that can happen is we can all die in the food riots!
Dec 24, 10 In praise of the sci-fi corridor
Dec 24, 10 An Alien Earth in the Oceans
Dec 20, 10 Bostom.com’s 2010 in photos
Dec 17, 10 Ruined by offices
Dec 15, 10 White hot hate for iPhoto 9
Dec 14, 10 The cause of what does not exist
Dec 11, 10 Jellies
Dec 3, 10 Rage HD ★★★★☆ How do they get all those mutants in there?
Dec 3, 10 God’s text message
Dec 3, 10 Happiness is …
Nov 28, 10 Australian science priorities
Nov 26, 10 Ironic regulatory fail!
Nov 23, 10 Joss Whedon on the Buffy reboot
Nov 21, 10 What, Me Worry?
Nov 21, 10 Astronaut describes the view in more detail than we usually get
Nov 20, 10 Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be ★★★★★
Nov 16, 10 The Beatles on iTunes? Meh
Nov 5, 10 Predators ★☆☆☆☆ A weak homage
Nov 5, 10 IMDb app micro-review
Nov 4, 10 Plagiarism case study
Oct 30, 10 Sea of yellow leaves
Oct 25, 10 Splice ★☆☆☆☆ Not-in-a-good-way creepy
Oct 22, 10 My favourite Sagan quote
Oct 14, 10 Immune strength
Oct 11, 10 The Earth belonged to the Martians
Oct 9, 10 Radiolab Does War of the Worlds
Oct 9, 10 "Shrodingers" cat
Oct 7, 10 Pigs fly in frozen hell! Early delivery?!
Oct 6, 10 A “tttask” email address handy after all
Oct 5, 10 iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player
Oct 4, 10 Dead kids, gay kids
Oct 3, 10 Book review (and my first ebook): An Oblique Approach, by David Drake & Eric Flint
Oct 3, 10 It is quite challenging
Oct 2, 10 An existence theorem for true love
Oct 1, 10 The (IE6) witch is dead
Sep 28, 10 Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books
Sep 26, 10 So meta!
Sep 26, 10 Marriage powers, activate!
Sep 25, 10 Evernote: all your text are belong to us
Sep 22, 10 Groovy Carl
Sep 20, 10 I never had that
Sep 18, 10 The craziest thing I have ever found in my salad
Sep 17, 10 Scientists have better things to do than debate “intelligent design”
Sep 17, 10 Big Suppla
Sep 15, 10 One god further
Sep 14, 10 Herding drunken, stupid cats
Sep 13, 10 I has a happy
Sep 12, 10 I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.
Sep 10, 10 Books are already historical artifacts
Sep 8, 10 Baen gives away science fiction and fantasy ebooks
Jan 19, 10 10-Minute Guide to HTML: A quick tutorial mainly for contributors to ScienceBasedMedicine.org
Jan 10, 10 Experts