Leave aside for the moment that Santorum's argument there is a bunch of dead leaves pretending to be a tree.

Social Ed. Some thoughts on the next generation's facebook obsession.

Baratunde: RT @j_zimms: @baratunde I went the sarcastic route too http://t.co/RU34xHm0 I'd say your sarcasm is more devastating though.

An insider look at what Google is doing wrong as a platform. Super interesting.

Many people seem to assume that the Web will one day become the one and only client computing platform on Earth, therefore it must not be controlled by anyone. This is a dangerous assumption. The HTML, CSS, and JavaScript triumvirate are just another platform, like Windows and Android and iOS, except that unlike those platforms, they do not have an owner to take responsibility for them. The Web has no one who can ensure that the platform acquires cutting…

When we self-diagnose, we look for control factors. Sometimes we invent them. The goal of solipsistic anxiety is to find an individual agent that explains our misery. We eliminate possibilities one-by-one in hopes that a single cause remains. This is how people deduce food allergies and come to workable morning routines (no to coffee, yes to tea; don’t transfer trains, walk the extra eight blocks instead). It’s frustrating when…

Kishore Mahbubani, a retired Singaporean diplomat, published a provocative essay in The Financial Times on Monday that began like this: “Dictators…

On this long Labor Day weekend in the US, we're bringing you a set of opinion pieces from various Ars writers—and we've love to have you join the conversation in…

Aside from a few tweets, I’ve mainly stayed out of the latest TechCrunch brouhaha. These things tend to flare up every few months, and they ultimately end up meaning nothing. But I would like to address one thing in particular, because The New York Times’ David Carr names me specifically in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/business/media/michael-arringtons-audacious-venture.html"…

For nearly 30 years, personal computers as we have known them have been the drivers of the technology engine. From Intel to Microsoft to Dell to HP to Micron Technology — many fortunes were made on the back of the PC. But the rise of mobile computing is upending the technology business and is simultaneously redefining what is a personal computer and how we use it.
On Thursday Hewlett-Packard, one of the oldest companies…

January 19, 2011. It’s a day I’ll always remember. It’s the day I finally got to destroy a Horcrux that had been bringing

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote a link bait article one that I was going to let pass, but then I got to thinking about it and — well — I got a little more pissed. First things first: Lion has bugs. I know this and admit this — I have been using it since the first Developer Preview came out and I know first hand how annoying some of…

OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left…

A personal history of electronic writing
For the first time, I no longer have a copy of Microsoft Word installed on either of my computers. That’s some change. I wrote my first two books, and many hundreds of articles , in Word. But I’m writing my third book in an inexpensive yet wonderful piece of Mac-only software written by a single person instead of a…

Opinion Drew Westen is a professor of psychology at Emory University and the author of “The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.” Atlanta IT was a blustery day in Washington on…

I am fully on the Readability band wagon , they have created a great service for both readers and writers. My goal with this site from day one has been to keep it highly readable and to minimize the distractions. On the local install of this blog that I have on my MacBook Air I am constantly playing with trivial aspects of the site — trying to make it just a touch better each time I push new…

Must read. RT @MikeTRose “A lack of creativity always looks like some other problem.” http://j.mp/qEULzY