George Lakoff: Don’t think of an elephant! A frightening and fascinating deconstruction of right-wing strategies and tactics in American politics, …Read more

When I travel, people are frequently baffled that I’m not good at dealing with cold temperatures, despite being from a cold country. Why is that?, t…Read more

Welcome to Argentina Originally uploaded by larspind. Are we supposed to be impressed that it’s done by Argentinian technicians? Or feel sorry…Read more

Here is my code for showing my Flickr photos on the left side of my blog: namespace eval flickr {} namespace eval flickr::people {} ad_proc flickr:…Read more

The discussion on folksonomies continues. Folksonomies—like controlled vocabularies—are here to stay, and I would like to focus on how we can make t…Read more

Clay Shirky (clay@shirky.com) # Repeats # Tags 1 94   2 18   3 10   4 3   5 1   6 3   7 2   8 2   9 1   10 1   11 …Read more

Hitting Command-Option Delete on a song in a playlist removes it from your library completely, instead of just deleting it from the playlist. Very h…Read more

Mclars Originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. By way of wodtke Read more

I have just returned from a fabulous couple of days at the Greenpeace international office in Amsterdam. I have been reminded why I do what I do; why…Read more