Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
In case you didn't see it last week, a lovely and thought-provoking article on memory from the NYT. Includes "dual processing," "neurological," "memory" and "double perception" theories, déjà vécu, presque vu, and jamais vu.
Do you remember that great Vampire Domestication PowerPoint? The creator has a bunch of free short stories for you to peruse. "Mayfly" is creepy. Also: EFF is looking for a Staff Technologist to join Seth …
Now that I have read A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Malkiel, I can understand Daniel Davies on beta and his lyrical allusions to what Gladwell would call the black swan. A Davies bonus: …
Yay yay yay! Professor Robin L. Einhorn, who jumpstarted my interest in taxes and economic history in the first place, has published her big new book on the effect of slaveowners' tax avoidance on the …
"[W]e also want our creations to be out of control....We want pride, but more than that, we want astonishment." "The lie of everlasting novelty: a different take on the case against porn." Kameron Hurley almost …
Despite feints to the contrary, neither Leonard nor I has read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Leonard gave it to me to read on the plane(s) back from Bakersfield. I …
I have started spending regular cash at Midtown Comics to get the compilations of Brian K. Vaughn's comics Ex Machina, Runaways, and Y: The Last Man. I grew up on Amar Chitra Katha and only …
Lunch (and dinner and Wikipedia and writing and conversing with Riana and Leonard) have helped me feel better. Riana wrote about caffeine addiction, social acceptance of same, and prostate cancer (among other things) earlier this …
Fog Creek just rearranged some furniture. Probably the most minor effect of this was that I espied a copy of Linux Journal whose cover article was titled: Podcast And Reel In The Blogs And Wikis …