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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 08-April:

“In the rollicking free market, hyper-industrialized madness of modern First World life, we are mostly free from oppression. Whereas our ancestors fought dysentery, we struggle to find time to hit the gym. Whereas our forefathers overthrew cruel and inhuman masters, we respond to unpleasantries by scouring the web and switching jobs. Our leaders may be foolish or domineering, but we recycle them at the ballot box every few years. The only yoke that remains is the one we cannot help but create: the tyranny of the niche.”

Complete Archive

2010

May
No entries


April
The Tyranny of the Niche


March
No entries


February
Apparitions and Authorship


2009

December
No entries


November
Reasons To Say “No Comments”


October
Contesting the Contests


September
Wearing Hats in Church


August
No entries


July
No entries


June
Freedom Killed the Video Stars


May
No entries


April
The Ugly and Unsung
Copy, Paste, Apocalypse


March
No entries


February
The Trouble with Christina
Three-Click Monte


January
Your Device Hath Foretold
The Expert Detector


2008

December
A Tale of Christmas Design
The Assignment of Madness


November
Salary Signals


September
Truth in Unplanned Advertising
The Benefit That Wasn't


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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