One year ago today
Lexicon: smart, sharp technothriller from Max "Jennifer Government" Barry: Max Barry's new technothriller Lexicon is a gripping conspiracy novel about a cabal of "poets" who have mastered the deep language of the human brain and can use it to boss the rest of us around. It's a pitch-perfect thriller, a jetpack of a plot that rocketed me from page one to page 400 in a single afternoon, and it kept me guessing right up to the end.
Five years ago today
HOWTO learn electronics: The Discover Electronics Kit contains a slew of standard components like resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, potentiometers, LEDs, a timer integrated circuit, a breadboard to connect everything together, and of course an instruction manual with a variety of projects.
Ten years ago today
Jason Kottke reads my DRM talk: Jason Kottke has recorded himself reading my Microsoft DRM talk and dedicated the result to the public domain.
