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The Longest-Running Vaporware Project in the History of Computing
Gary Wolf's 1995 Wired profile of Ted Nelson is still one of the great pieces of tech journalism — and Nelson is still furious about it.
I recently reread “The Curse of Xanadu” by Gary Wolf, published in Wired in June 1995. Gary is a frien...
Jet-Lagged in Lisbon with a Metal Puzzle in My Pocket
Here’s a grab bag of things that caught my interest in recent weeks.
Lisbon’s Reservoir Museum
It was my first day in Lisbon in January — jet-lagged, no sleep, wind blowing the rain sideways. I’d already visited most of the city’s muse...
The Art of Not Looking Where You're Told
I subscribe to Sam Harris’s Waking Up app, which has daily meditation practice and a bunch of interesting lecture series on consciousness, meditation, and spirituality. A couple of weeks ago, I listened to an audio essay on the app by Rob W...
I’ve Been Playing Wizardry for 43 Years. I Made My Own Mapping Tool
In 1982, I was a college student in Colorado. That summer, my friend got an Apple IIe, and six of us spent every evening that summer sitting in folding chairs around his computer playing Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. The ga...
Misanthropologie: Anthropologie Screwed Up Twice, Then Threatened to Ban Me
In December 2024, I ordered Flannel Jogger Pants from Anthropologie as a Christmas gift for my wife. They sent me a metal bathroom towel fixture. I thought returning the wrong item would have been the end of it, but months later, Anthropolo...
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