January 5, 2009

  • Flying higher

    I may be wrong, but I’ll betting that Esther Dyson is already the most frequent flyer on Earth. Now she’s looking to fly at higher altitudes. Here’s the latest on her Edventure site: UPDATE: I’m currently living in Star City outside Moscow, training to be a cosmonaut as backup to Charles Simonyi. His flight launches… Continue reading

  • Best Breakfast On Earth

    That might be an overstatement, but it’s how we felt yesterday after four days of efforts to surmount canceled and delayed flights finallydelivered us back to Boston: our alt.home sweet home. So we went out to breakfast at a new place for us: the plainly named Neighborhood Restaurant & Bakery, in Somerville. My wife and… Continue reading

  • Facebook is The Borg

    Much of the activity that used to happen out in the wild unfettered Net, over email, open (XMPP-based) IM and blog posts is now happening inside the Facebook silo. It is AOL 2.0. I avoid the place, but that’s getting harder. On this current visit I see 7 friend suggestions, 273 friend requests, 6 event… Continue reading

  • Risingstone

    Fears over earthquake ‘swarm’ at Yellowstone National Park says TimesOnline. (That’s the London one.) In a report on the same development, David Isenberg begins,   The local (Cody WY) newspaper says that there’s “no indication the park’s famous caldera is likely to erupt.” But in Honolulu, where the reporters know something about volcanos, the paper… Continue reading