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Its a miracle and no one cares!

posted in Politics | May 5, 2010

Ezra Klein isn’t convinced that the iPad has enough storage space to do what its supposed to do:Here’s what I don’t understand about the iPad: How can the memory on it possibly be sufficient? The maximum-memory model has 64 gigabytes of storage...

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Apples Closed Garden Isnt So Unreasonable

posted in Politics | Apr 19, 2010

My PostBourgie comrade Shani O. notes that in its developer contracts, Apple has reserved the right to reject or censor content or materials they find “objectionable.” She isn’t exactly thrilled about this, and sees it as part of Apple’s bro...

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Torture, Star Trek, and why science fiction is awesome

posted in Politics | May 9, 2009

In honor of the  Star Trek premier (I’m actually going to see it this evening), I wanted to share this really good Slate piece on an episode of The Next Generation which dealt explicitly with torture and its impact on the tortured as well as the t...