My photographs are part of who I am, and I enjoy sharing them with people and getting their reactions. But I have never yet been entirely happy about the way I do that on the web. Flickr is marvelously simple, but everyone’s pages look essentially the same; only the photos differ, and while some w...
Jaron Lanier has a new essay at Edge, John Brockman’s Third Culture Wordfest. Lanier asks whether the kind of collective wisdom exhibited by phenomena such as Wikipedia is actually not so wise after all. He is by no means the first to do so, but he manages to raise a whole thicket of interesti...
There's this old bloke at the table, mouth stoved in because he hasn't put his teeth in, unshaven. And he's picking carefully at his plate of orecchiette with their sauce of lovely fresh tomatoes, onions and rocket. He's moving the rocket, leaf by leaf, to the side of the plate.
"What are you doi...
The Queen (R) and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, arrive at Kew Palace in Kew Gardens for a private family dinner to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday, April 21, 2006. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
What truly appalls me about the [lead photo]http://uk.news.yahoo.com/27052006/325/photo/quee...
Oh, the sweet sound of clashing cultures. Ventria Inc. is trying to make a drug that could help save the lives of children who contract diarrhoea, a major killer in the developing world. Good, right? Wrong, because they are making it by engineering a human gene into plants such as rice. And that h...
