Posts tagged ‘nytimes’
Redundant URLs
November 1st, 2011 at 1:37 pm by Dr. Drang
I often visit Pinboard’s popular bookmarks page to see what the rest of the world thinks is interesting. Today there are nine entries for Mona Simpson’s moving eulogy of Steve Jobs, reprinted on Sunday in the New York Times. The interest in it isn’t surprising, but it does seem a little weird that there are…
Spew
August 29th, 2010 at 7:00 pm by Dr. Drang
This column by Frank Rich in today’s New York Times has been mentioned favorably on some liberal blogs, but I don’t think much of it. First, it’s derivative of Jane Mayer’s recent article on the Koch brothers in The New Yorker. More important, it has some really tone-deaf passages. Here’s the first: Only the fat…
Good Times, bad Times
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:29 am by Dr. Drang
The New York Times has a big article about the Deepwater Horizon, the failure of regulatory agencies to recognize and act on the hazards associated with offshore drilling, and—most interesting to me—the safety device known as the “blind shear ram” that was the last line of defense against a spill. When a newspaper covers an…
Scratch off
April 21st, 2010 at 11:35 am by Dr. Drang
This NY Times article about banning an app from the App Store is really poorly written and jumbles up a couple of related, but distinctly different, aspects of iPhone OS development. The main topic is Apple’s recent decision to remove the Scratch Viewer app from the App Store. Scratch is a teaching language/environment from the…
