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Pacific Rim is a work of art 17 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Over the weekend I went with some fellow graduate students to see Pacific Rim. It’s not a particularly complicated movie, there are some gaping plot holes, the technobabble reaches facepalm levels and...
To thine own reading habits be true 15 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
It’s been about two weeks since the untimely demise of our dearly beloved Google Reader. Since then many replacements have been stepping up to the plate. I’ve been using Feedly, but I hear good things...
Celebrate Independence with Books 4 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
Happy Independence Day to all my American readers! While you’re enjoying your fireworks and barbeque and beer (and possibly sweltering hot weather) why not pick up some great books to go with it all? ...
Sunday Selection 2013-06-23 23 Jun 2013 | 10:07 pm
Hello gentle readers! It is sunny, hot and humid here in beautiful Ithaca, New York. Yesterday I was out chasing the sunlight and sitting near waterfalls. Today I’m chasing air conditioning, writing a...
Sunday Selection 2013-06-09 10 Jun 2013 | 12:04 am
Hello everyone. It’s June, we’re almost halfway through the year and it’s a beautiful sunny day here in Ithaca, New York. The Intertubes are aflame with talk of PRISM and Occupy Gezi. Luckily there a...
What does this app do? 7 Jun 2013 | 11:30 pm
Yesterday, after a productive afternoon of hackery I came across this interesting exclamation on Twitter: ‘The app, which is not cheap at $4.99’ Just fuck right off. This race to the bottom on pricing...
A week with the Nexus 4 5 Jun 2013 | 06:00 pm
I bought my first smartphone about a year and a half ago. It was the straight-from-Google version of the Samsung Nexus S, meaning that it came without any carrier-installed crapware and no contract. H...
Sunday Selection 2013-06-02 3 Jun 2013 | 12:39 am
Happy June Everyone! Hope your summer is off to a good start. Here’s a quick round-up of interesting stuff from the last week of May. Around the Web What happened to the Internet productivity miracle?...
Sunday Selection 2013-05-24 26 May 2013 | 06:00 pm
It’s graduate week here at Cornell and over the last few week the Internetz have started to fill up various forms of commencement speeches (and excerpts thereof). It’s also been just over two years si...
Spam and user responsibility 24 May 2013 | 06:00 pm
Twitter, like any communication medium (physical or electronic) has a spam problem. They’ve been able to mostly keep it under control, but it surfaces every now and then. I was talking to a friend abo...
