Archive for October, 2007
Easement
iPhone owners are up in arms about the fact that Apple blocked third party applications. Personally I think these people should focus their wrath squarely on the practice of SIM card locking which should arguably be illegal. I think the Brazilians have the right idea, with their anti-SIM locking campaign.
As John Gruber points out, the […]
Model Minority
This NY Times story made me wonder: Do Indian-Americans really want to have a small vocal minority whose views diverge strongly from their own represent them? But then I realized, its the other way around - its this small vocal minority who want to speak for all Indians. Too bad the NY Times can’t tell […]
All Together Now
I’ve been meaning to write about training Juno for a while now, but never got around to it. To make a long story short, Juno wouldn’t win any obedience contests, but she is much better behaved than before. Lately, however, she’s picked up some cute-but-annoying new habits. For instance, she used to be perfectly happy […]
Moon Map
Via How Design: “Moon Mapping from the U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Research Project.”
{design, maps, moon, astronomy}
Matching Funds
Although it draws attention to his laggard fundraising, Edwards decision to accept matching funds means he’ll have more money than either Obama or Hillary currently have (although they are both raising money faster than Edwards). 22 million to the approximately 19 million that the others have each raised. It also shows him to be less […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
