Joho the Blog

I am a crotchety old man about graffiti. 99.9% of them — and, as usual, all my statistics have been authenticated by having been made up — impose an adolescent narcissism. But I also think: (a) I don't really understand the cultural positioning behin

The Declaration is obviously a remarkable document, part philosophy, part legal document, part performative, part a moral accounting, part beautiful rhetoric. It's good reading, although I do tend to skip the long middle that lists the particular com

Tim Bray blogs about the head of ISO pooh-poohing the concerns about the way that Microsoft's OOXML document format was strong-armed through his organization.[Tags: standards odf ooxml tim_bray microsoft ]

Nicholas Kristof has a terrific column today about how the donation of a goat to a family in Uganda ultimately led to one of the children, Beatrice, earning a degree from Connecticut College, and beginning a path of service for her community. It's a

http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.htmlYikes.Anti-yikes [Tags: cell_phones mobiles pop_corn brain_cells ]

I'm enjoying my Amazon Kindle ebook reader, albeit while accidentally pressing the "next page" button as often as everyone else (did they beta test this thing all on the thumbless?), and whining about the rest of the annoyances about which you should

Zachary McCune, who is at the Berkman Center, became an "ambassador" for One Web Day. To rev up for it, he did an anthropological study on himself by going without the Net for one day. He's blogged his odyssey. As an example, here's what Zack wrote a

From gigbert (via Paul English (email)):looking for a monkey who can bang on my keyboard to try to find the one random sequence of characters that is not yet taken as a domain name The gig offers $100.[Tags: humor monkey dns ]

A thoughtful overview of the Global Voices Summit from Evgeny Morozov. Also, see Joi Ito.[Tags: global_voices ]

My Windows Vista Ultimate 64 installation is now telling me that my license will expire in 14 hours. This is confusing since the Control Panel tells me that Vista is activated and gives me a product number. I tried to use the Windows support chat, bu