Unmistakable Marks

Warranted Genuine Snarks

2006

August

• The Pahr of Stahle

July

• RIP PlaysForSure

June

• After a long absence, I address the pressing issue of consumer electronics

February

• Foot shooting

January

• Simple Solutions to Complex Problems
• Do not pay money to those sons of bitches at Yahoo!
• In Which the Future Surreptitiously Arrives

2005

September

• Yahtzee!
• The March of Science, cont.
• The Uncanny Omnicompetence of Techies

August

• Reasons to Hate Thomas Friedman, #43 in a series
• Tax Shelters for the Rich or Reality-Based

July

• Criminal Activity: Still Illegal!
• What’s wrong with audio magazines?

June

• The magic powers of digital technology
• And you wonder why there’s no good Mac software

April

• The Human Example

March

• The Upside of Not Appealing to the Youth Demographic
• Marriage out of Joint

February

• Well, that’s cool.

January

• Dear Comment Spammers: Suck It.
• Why does the NBA hate America?
• Wall writing
• Consider this the poor man’s RSS

2004

December

• A Camera in Every Kitchen
• I can’t imagine why we aren’t more optimistic

November

• Bad Advice
• I stand by my election analysis
• Economic Justice For All
• Corrections Dept.

September

• Making a Virtue of Necessity
• Miscellany

August

• Nobody Here But Us Rich Folk
• I Deeply Resent etc.
• A Liberal By Thirty
• The Joys of Web Interfaces
• Taking Arms Against Geek Sanctimony

July

• Your Eye-Rubbing Moment for the Day, in Reverse Q/A Format
• Proctonumerology
• Bad Advice
• Is This Thing On?

June

• Open-Source Convergence, and Apple Reconsidered

May

• Microsoft Eating Its Young
• Fast Food Is Good For You
• Longevity, and the Significance Thereof
• It’s a Small World

April

• Self-Affirmation
• Users Lie
• Today’s Sign That We Are Living in the Future
• Paper is Obsolete
• The Magazine Test of Political Junkiedom
• TV Shows as DVD Fascicles

March

• Have you no shame, Senator?
• Sane Thoughts on the Linux Platform
• The Problem With Open Source
• Bad Policy is Bad Politics
• The Terrible Difficulties of the Rich
• What Does $200 Million Buy You?
• Notes From All Over

February

• And Speaking of History
• The Verdict of History
• Perhaps a Tactical Error
• Blaming the Victim

January

• Defense of the Union
• Silver Linings
• Apple, and Blown Opportunities
• iMac is a Wonderland
• Obsessive Lack of Updates

2003

December

• Moral Suits
• National Insecurity
• Subgenre
• Alleged Super-Geniuses
• The Pussification of America

November

• 2004: Year of Convergence
• The Rationality of Limousine Liberalism
• Culture in Three Steps or Less
• Reluctant Cheerleading
• Pick Your Diet
• Bush: “Democrats would do a better job”

October

• RIP: Web Applications?
• Fiscal Liberal
• Mo’ Zilla
• Publishers and Producers, Take Note
• Perky Madison
• Job Security
• Fair-Weather Deities
• A Bad Case of Mono
• Plame it on the Rain

September

• Developers! Developers! Developers!
• Elongating Proboscides, the Importance Thereof
• Reese's Short Links
• Our Alien Friends to the North
• Rush to Sunday
• I'm Back!

August

• Microsoft: Not So Omnipotent, Either
• Microsoft: Not So Stupid
• Open Candor
• Notes From the Powerless
• Incurious George
• News Flash: Google Is Neat
• The March of Science
• A Day at the Track
• Font of Wisdom
• In Defense of Plastic
• Corporations As People
• Standard Snarks
• Spamming Van Gogh

July

• Mo Reasons
• The Death of Palm
• Free Lunches, the Nonexistence Thereof
• Coverups Get a Bad Rap
• Up up down down left right left right B A Start
• Changing on Internet Time
• 1.21 Gigawatts
• Nameless Music
• Naughty Words

June

• Antonin Scalia, Asshole
• Incipient Fjord Pining
• Kids These Days
• Foregone Conclusions
• Earth's Killing Surface
• The Death of IE, Part II
• Waiting for Longhorn
• Strange Causal Relationships
• Nice Predicament
• Job Insecurity
• RSS: Now Smaller Than Ever
• Doom! Doom!
• The Problem of Shelving

May

• Motorin'
• Ask and Ye Shall Receive
• TV Time Translation
• Unix Defined
• Quicktime Movie Previews
• A Browser for Grandma
• Somehow, It's Completely Different
• Kids These Days
• So We Did That
• Cynics are Chumps
• Coolest Character Ever
• Silicon Flowers
• Ari Fleischer would make a lousy Sith Lord
• Enemy of the Good
• Weddings Я Us

April

• The Power of Music
• The Myth of Opportunity
• Comparative Advantage In Action
• Diesel Pigs
• Like That, Except Not
• The Silly Web
• Layers for the Web
• I never meant for it to be like this
• Premature Pessimism
• Nobody Likes a MIME
• The War's Not Over Yet
• Party Like It's Late 2000
• Stagnating Happily
• The Ephemeral Backlist
• The Hills Are Alive
• Well-Connected

March

• Elmer's Programming
• Meet the Court
• Bubble? What Bubble?
• Food and its Discontents
• Mondegreens of News
• What He Said
• Little To Say
• Notes Toward a Methodology of Evaluation for Interactive Entertainment
• The Power of Cheese
• No More Portals. Please.
• The Use of Allies
• Mutton Beret
• Cheap Liquor
• Writin' XHTML Good
• My Hands Twitch a Little Bit
• The Perils of Upgrading
• Getchyer fresh, roasted brain implants!
• Progressive Taxation and its Discontents
• Eliminating the French
• And so it begins...
• Surprising Coolth
• Sharing the Wealth
• Ghost Town Traffic Planning
• Ergo Propter Hoc
• Irrational Expectations
• The March of Progress
• Now I need RGB pants
• In Order to Save the Village
• Too Hard For Humans
• False Dichotomies
• How many economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
• Standards vs. People