End-of-Year Miscellany

So I’m in Houston, Texas right now for a big ol’ reunion of my wife’s family. Somewhere around 30 people in all whose political views span the spectrum between rabid leftists and rabid rightists. Actually, that’s incorrect. There really is no spanning of the spectrum; just a bunch of folks hanging out on each end of it firing dirty looks across the divide. I have little hope that there might be intelligent discussion about the … Read more

Meta-ing Ourselves to Death

I’m starting to get that dot-com bubble burst feeling again. There are too many meta information tools out there with shaky revenue streams.