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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