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Got this today from a fellow filthy hack who is wasting away at one of the world’s leading business magazines and apparently didn’t have a deadline to meet today. Much love, my underutilized comrade.

It’s a paper about Walt Whitman and you must see it to believe it. It’s so obnoxious that it comes all the way around to being brilliant. It’s so good, in fact, that I suspect it might be a hoax. Years ago, in a previous lifetime, I had the very bad luck to be teaching [...]

My latest Newsweek column is here.

Say a prayer. Wish him well. Honor the place where his soul and yours become one. Namaste.

This creepy old dame had her world-record fingernails broken off in a car crash. See the BBC report on it here. I don’t know where to begin.

My latest from Newsweek is here. Money quote: “While blogs can do many wonderful things, generating huge amounts of money isn’t one of them.”

I forgot to post a link here on the blog when the article went up on Newsweek.com. My take on how the media helped Apple cover up for Steve Jobs and his health problems is here.

My article on this, from the latest Newsweek, is here. HP, the biggest tech company, is ringing an alarm bell about the future of science and technology. It’s scary stuff. We’re already starving science and engineering students of funding. That may only get worse if we spend billions bailing out banks and automakers. Money quote: 
Nobody [...]

Geeks are raving about Palm’s new Pre phone and Linux-based Web OS, which is looking like the hit of the show.  I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at the device last month and my write-up on it for Newsweek is here. The Pre is a slick looking slider phone with an OS [...]