“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by… Read More
Imagine earning supper money from playing a game that you’d play anyway … tempting, no? That in a nutshell is the pitch from companies like Freecash, which work in an area of the online economy… Read More
I was stumbling around the Wayback Machine (the internet archive) for something connected to my old blog, and linked out to a former post from the official Agatha Christie website. This is from a capture… Read More
Two weeks ago, I launched this website, and with it a revived form of Dot Dot Dot, a blog I first started, um, 22 years ago. (Two weeks, 22 years; time is a construct, right?)… Read More
Last year, as I was nursing some ideas about having a digital sandbox of my own, I got in touch with Matthew Hollett. I had not yet met Matthew, but we had some mutual contacts,… Read More