Keeping Tabs on your Abstractions

I was delighted to discover Omar Rizwan's TabFS , a brilliant hack that lets you see your browser tabs as folders and files on your computer, because it's...

It's more than just "teach kids to code"

I’m skeptical about “teach the kids to code!” as a panacea for all of society’s ills. Yet today, I’m at the White House to participate in a summit on Computer...

3D Printing, Teleporters and Wishes

I’ve been infatuated with 3D printing for a few years now; the rise of (NYC’s own!) MakerBot and other startups offering simple ways to create physical objects...

Q & A About Being A Nerd

A few weeks ago, I’d noted a Globe and Mail story that described Excel expertise as if it were a new fashion trend. That tickled my fancy, and I think the...

The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install

One of the interesting things about being a serious Windows user is that very little attention is paid to efficient users of Windows, and that we suffer from...

MIT Institute of Technology

A sign that I roll with a dorky crew: I was quite pleased to get a decent laugh out of Disco Deejay Cameron "Ladies Love Cool Blogdex" Marlow last...

From the current issue of

From the current issue of News of the Weird : Pedro Valls Feu Rosa, a state supreme court judge in Brazil, has developed the artificial-intelligence software...

Although it probably just means

Although it probably just means I’m unpopular , I think it’s interesting that I haven’t received a single copy of the "I Love You" worm, in any of its...

Hee hee hee... This shows

Hee hee hee… This shows that getting a computer to work does take a rocket scientist….