Predictive analytics. Oh joy.

Whoah - teeth from New York Magazine? Whodathunkit.

SEVEN CITIES, FIVE TECHNOLOGIES and they couldn't find a competent videographer? Super-lame, but as clearly a harbinger of what's headed our way as anything I can imagine.

"Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations." Not even sure this could be implemented, let alone enforced; either way, awful precedent.

Making the rounds, got to be a joke. And a product called HAL, yet!!

Something actually useful from Y! Tech. Huh.

This is, indeed, nasty. Hat tip to Jeffrey.

Terrifying. What I wouldn't give to see my file. ("Care to explain this book 'Wreckers of Civilisation'?)

Kills me to say it, but they're looking mighty lost in Cupertino just now. Recent Apple Web and device UI decisions do *not* bode well for the future.

My old Roppongi Hills piece shows up, apropos of a Mori development in Shanghai

Psychologically acute: "The most dangerous George Bush is one who feels weak, powerless and under attack. Those perceptions are intolerable for him and I doubt there are many limits, if there are any, on what he would be willing to do in order to restore

You will not do better than this, on the cretinous Friedman. I have long been in awe of the infallible wrongness of his tin ear, which Taibbi tags early on and justly.

Awful

$350M worth of what happens when there's no "Undo" functionality

Mike Kuniavsky's more forgiving of Matsushita's definition of "standard" sleep than I would be.

Lots of interesting points about downstream consequences of unconscious decisions at the level of architecture, the neotenous society, and so forth. Bottom line: the last few decades of my life don't look as if they will be much fun at all.

"New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves - and to be treated by the health care system - as pre-pregnant"

Shredding Mr. Rashid. BURN!

What I'm paying for with every order of maguro, apparently...

Love that big honkin' Ford logo...

Well that's us fucked

The article I was interviewed for, and do not appear in

Celia Farber doing what she does best: pushing a line of purest horseshit, disingenuously and dangerously

<nelsonmuntz>

More surprising Virgin badness: Philippe Starck needs to get out of the branding & CI business, like yesterday

"Inspiration-induced ubiquitous services"? Ack and double ack.

Reasonably complete reference on Scientology

Dang. What's wrong with Bertelli? He chased Jil Sander away and turned Prada into a bad joke. Now this.

Via Fabio: There's nothing like validation, even so long after the fact. ; . )

...and a straight-up ripoff, from the midpoint backwards, of my beloved Citroen DS

Two words: Un. Believable. Not particularly safe for work.

Risible, featherweight defense of transhumanist practice from a "left" perspective

"Pimps, pedophiles, pederasts, rapists...and God knows what other categories of unearthly human flotsam"

Metrosexual boot camp, from only $525!

It's under construction, but they launch anyway. With awful English. Will they *ever* learn?

Won't somebody pay for these folks to hire an IA?