Monthly Archives: August 2011

At the beginning of August I wondered if our President had a card up his sleeve. At the final moment, he’d play the card, the Republican hostage-takers would be exposed in such a way that even the idiots on CNN … Continue reading →

There are all these Quora-like services coming online these days. Why doesn’t the Times have one? I’m not suggesting that they develop it. Partner. The Times is a distribution channel. They already have a lot of smart readers and a … Continue reading →

A search for Firefox with Twitter turns up a few hits from earlier this month. There is a website where you can download the app. You can type @food or #bart in the address bar of the browser and be … Continue reading →

In the early days of Saturday Night Live, during the Weekend Update segment, a standard joke that always got a laugh. Chevy Chase doing the news. A picture of Generalissmo Francisco Franco appears behind him. “Francisco Franco.” Pause. “Is still … Continue reading →

The Internet is great because it is decentralized. If you centralize it, it stops being the Internet.

I’ve written about this a few times before. Maybe someday someone will make this app. Put two people together if they like the same movies. On the theory that they’ll like each other. Maybe that’s not true!

I got a new MacBook Air today and was excited as I was bringing it home, then I remembered — I don’t have a FireWire cable. This is always the moment when the newness of a new Mac stops being … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on a new UI for web apps in the OPML Editor. Along the way I decided to re-work the logo for the OPML Editor itself. Ain’t it pretty!

I received an inquiry from a reporter asking my opinion, as a Wikileaks “supporter,” about the security breach which resulted in the unintentional release of unedited US embassy cables. In keeping with my no interviews policy, here’s the full text … Continue reading →

Sometimes here on Scripting News we get the news before it is news. Andy Carvin asked Eric Schmidt why they only accept real names. He said it’s because it’s an identity service. On 7/26/11 I wrote that Google-Plus is a … Continue reading →