Monthly Archives: April 2007

Better Living Through Wikipedia

Because Wikipedia never stops enlightening me, and because Citizendium (the “elitist, anti net-cultural counter-project to Wikipedia,” as summed up by Florian Cramer) never stops boring me, I thought I’d post an annotated list of recent Wikipedia contrails. None of the following items can be found on Citizendium, and I’m not about to apply for the [...]

Award Tour

Work, travel and ironing have been consuming potential updates to this site but the 92nd Street Y summer season is now live. Go buy yourself an art class. I’m also pleased to report that the New York Society of Association Executives just awarded us with the 2007 Cyberspace Award for 92Y.org in the donor category. [...]

Math Blog of the Day: The Narrow Road

Hey, Sesame Street tried. Up til now my math-blog reading has been limited to Scott Aaronson’s Shtetl-Optimized (entertaining) and BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen’s LiveJournal (always glad to help). But Leland McInnes’ The Narrow Road is the kind of math blog you can sit down and have a drink with, because the posts are long and [...]

Gallery Arcade

Joyce Images: Ulysses in postcards Philip K. Dick Book Cover Gallery [via Total Dick-Head] Art Fag City rounds up the New York net art galleries. Gallery of named graphs Soviet poster heaven Pixelator: Battling boring light criticism.

Scribd Finds

Scribd, the Y Combinator-backed “YouTube for documents” I and many others first blogged about a month ago, appears to be holding strong traffic-wise. Content-wise, it’s still largely a wasteland of crappy ebooks, but there are a few documents of interest buried amid the rubble. Here’s the best of what I’ve been able to find so [...]