Blog posts from 2010

1. Scream Like a Man

   Text Adventures You see an article or a twitter toot or whatever. read the thing You see a link that looks interesting. click the link You just made be Mike Arrington some cash. undo I’m sorry, I…

2. The Thermostat Fallacy

   I’ve always called this collection of phenomena thermostat fallacies , but my dad does HVAC for a living, so, go figure. I’m not even sure that they are proper fallacies. The premise In our cars, the…

3. The Paradox of Controls

   Given an effectively infinite set of behaviors, and a limited set of actors, the simplest and most common control strategy to restrict the behavior of actors seems to be: Deny any known forbidden…

4. Eggcorns in Technology: A list

   In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker’s dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that…

5. On the iPad

   What is interesting about the iPad? There are a bunch of technologies making interesting convergences in the iPad including search, mobility, task oriented Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and…

6. Shmoocon 2010 Advice

   I write here this morning in an attempt to return from a self-inflicted unhappy state. One of the reasons I maintain archives of my content here — embarrassing as it always is — is because I force…