Longtime Readers of this blog will be aware that I have been a fan of Mozilla for a long time. There’s nearly ten years of Mozilla advocacy tucked away in the JWM archives. I’ve been on the Mozilla fanboy train since before Firefox even existed — all the way back to the original Mozilla Suite’s […]

My friend Ginger left a comment on my post last week: Did you hear about Qwikster? Are you gonna blog about it? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN. I always yield to requests from my teeming millions of fervent admirers, so here is what it all means. Everything you need to know to understand how Netflix […]

Minecraft is the blockbuster indie game that’s burning up the Internet. So why isn’t it more fun?

The East Coast earthquake, and some thoughts on social media and the future of tragedy

HP, in deep hole, keeps digging

webOS, that is

New Ubuntu introduces new user interface concepts — the Dash and the Launcher — but better versions of the same ideas already exist

Congressman fears that ethnic museums will only attract visitors of that ethnicity. Data suggests otherwise

Explain how this new service from Amazon is legal. Seriously!

A sad spectacle that says a lot about modern culture

In the end, Mubarak left Egypt without a fight. Muammar Gaddafi appears determined not to go down the same road

I wrote last Friday that the uprising in Egypt appeared to be heading for a moment of decision, with protesters’ calls for that to be President Hosni Mubarak’s “day of departure” set to collide with Mubarak’s gradually increasing use of force to try to back them down. It didn’t turn out that way.  The protesters […]

… you’re never ready. But that doesn’t stop it from coming

We need leaders who are focused on changing how things actually are — not just how they look

Sometimes that’s all you get

President Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and the dangers of compromise for compromise’s sake

Furniture update ahoy!

Greatness is measured only in results — a lesson that the President may be learning too late

Good story, good cast, good production. So why isn’t this a good movie?

Steve Jobs, duh

Why do movie nerds look back on that period so reverently? Let’s find out

Because, you know, why not?

Britain’s last WWI veteran dies, and Radiohead remembers him

… to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard

How does an artist go from doing interesting work for next to nothing to producing dreck and getting rich? Let’s find out!