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"Sounder and Relay": An art installation based on "Wired Love" 26 Jul 2013 | 05:45 am
After posting about Wired Love last night -- the novel about two telegraph officers who strike up a remote relationship -- I got an email from the artist Silvia Ruzanka. It turns out she's create a co...
To be fair, he wrote it in 1949 26 Jul 2013 | 04:01 am
I saw this in a used-book sale in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
"Wired Love": A tale of catfishing, OK Cupid, and sexting ... from 1880 25 Jul 2013 | 07:59 am
In the Victorian era, telegraph operators were the first people to live with virtual reality. Here's how the 1880 novel Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes -- the story of Nattie Rogers, a young...
How to spot a faked negative review: They're vague, long, and use lots of exclamation points!!! 23 Jul 2013 | 08:57 pm
By now, it's pretty obvious that there is lots of fakery in online reviews. Most of the time, I assume the faking skews positive: i.e. a manufacturer Turks a bunch of people to write glowing assessmen...
Viewing massive accidents using Google Maps 22 Jul 2013 | 07:52 am
Remember the wreck of the Costa Concordia? The captain ran the ship aground off the Italian island of Giglio, and then was accused of abandoning the vessel before ensuring his passengers got off safel...
Fixing the unfixable 20 Jul 2013 | 03:17 am
That radio above is the Cambridge Soundworks HD Radio 820HD, a high-end clock-radio from 2007. Today, I got an email from James Grimmer, a reader who responded to my column on the fixer movement with ...
On the value of imagining yourself as a mosquito, or a beam of light 19 Jul 2013 | 09:09 am
In Brooklyn where I live, the mosquitos are brutal in the summer. I've tried everything to fight them: Mosquito-repellent candles, bug zappers, those vaguely snake-oilian machines that use propane to ...
Probably true. 28 Jun 2013 | 09:34 am
Every once in a while I realize probably one third of what my kids say to me is just them doing complex a/b testing of my responses. — Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) June 28, 2013
Social media and Egypt's dazzling graffiti art 28 Jun 2013 | 12:30 am
There's a fascinating relationship emerging between graffiti and social media. Graffiti artists have always wrestled with their peculiar ephemerality of their form -- as soon as a work goes up, you're...
Why do we play video games, when they cause us such pain? On Jesper Juul's "The Art of Failure" 26 Jun 2013 | 08:42 pm
Why do we play video games, when they cause us such pain? This is the question that Jesper Juul wrestles with in his terrific new book, The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games...
