February 2003 – Page 3

14 February 2003

A death examined

I think this may be the most heartbreaking reporting to come out of the Columbia disaster: “The communication checks continue. So does the silence. A radar station near the Kennedy…

13 February 2003

Overdoing adaptation

Steven Pinker is a Pub Darwinist. We all know at least one – the guy for whom there’s no greater pleasure than locating the long hidden adaptive explanation for this…

11 February 2003

Evolution

My latest Guardian column is up today. It’s about the creeping reabsorption of the net by mainstream society and the end of our fantasies of living in a parallel world…

10 February 2003

From behind the firewall

From the mind-boggling insight department. A weblog from within Saddam’s Iraq, kept in defiance of Government firewalls and intimidation by a young man possibly named Raed. I think a lot…

10 February 2003

This is how it starts

Adam Wishart has written the best book about the dot.com lunacy yet and now Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing has picked up on it. He says it reads like “an…

9 February 2003

Napoleon

Even if you’re pro-European like me it’s impossible to read Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s first draft of Articles 1 to 16 of the proposed European Constitutional Treaty without the word ‘Napoleonic’…

9 February 2003

Why should I bother?

Bill Thompson, the

9 February 2003

asynchronous pulsation!

Technorati provides evidence of my first ever French inbound link ? from Mario, a Head Teacher in Quebec (directeur d’?cole = Head Teacher?). Thrilling. Better still is Babelfish’s translation of…

7 February 2003

Code is law, pictures are rubbish

I put up a few pictures from yesterday’s Oxford conference, The Politics of Code. Maybe tomorrow I’ll try some words.

7 February 2003

Need a decent Lighting pun here

Jane Lighting has won the top job at Channel 5. Story from The Guardian. I’m making a serious attempt to link to newspapers other than The Guardian for media stories…

Month: February 2003