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Turning Left Against Traffic: A Blog

Perspectives on curious, unnecessary challenges in technology, commerce and society. Like the universal driving experience of turning left against traffic, we are often faced with weird difficulties which arise when we are forced against the flow.

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Latest Entry from 23-August:

“Every few years, an elite force convenes to tackle some unprecedented menace. You've never heard of this loose-knit league of geniuses, but their members have saved us all on many occasions. Sometimes they take down rogue operations or prop-up fledgling humanitarian efforts. They unmask false fronts and strike to prevent cascading failures. Last month, news broke that our hidden heroes saved the most prominent of celebrities from a threat of death by poisoning. The target now safely carries these words to your screen. We almost lost the Internet.”

Complete Archive

2008

August
Arsenic and Namespace
Information Control
The Unexpected Patron


July
Messengers of Productivity
The Clueless and the Cowards


June
There Are No Minor Mistakes


April
The Public Radio Paradox


March
How Robustness Failed Us
The People of the Fruit
Authority Without Responsibility


February
Begrudingly Adding RSS
Responsibility Without Authority
Blog, Relaunched


January
Moore's Law: Still Ruining Everything
Email Newsletters are Hard
Where's Lou When You Need Him?


2007

December
The Acid Test
5% of Email is Not Spam
Crush the Blackberries


November
MySpace is Not Important
Amazon vs. Itself
Bozos and Googlers


October
The Information Police
Nokia Buys Navtech


September
I Secretly Love Pagii
Joel is Back
The End of Batteries


August
The Key to a Tragedy
Too Good of an Answer
LAX Crippled by a $10 part
Free The New York Times
Bandwidth Blues


July
It's Raining Hardware
An All-Natural Problem
Something Old, Something New


June
It Should be Software Engineering
iPhone Open Season
10 Ways CNET is Still Clueless
Fighting Vandals with Vandalism


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