Jack Yan on Vox

Leadership comes from the grass roots, not institutions

2008-05-09T11:17:21Z

[Cross-posted] Sometimes I surprise myself on what comes up in blog comments. In a thread about the Iraq war and the short memories of nations over on Vox, I wrote the following. And as I wrote, I believed this to be a possible truth. To go forth...

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Have you been archived?

2007-12-30T23:43:27Z

While I was trying to refresh my memory on blog posts for the Vox QotD, I came across this weird link: http://jackyan.humanarchives.org/ They ask that folks click through at this link instead: http://humanarchives.org/members/13077/archive Oh ...

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The gap is back

2007-12-30T10:18:24Z

If anyone was going to get WGA writers back on their show, that was David Letterman. Reuter reports that the late-night talk show host will be back on CBS on January 2, with his company, Worldwide Pants, Inc., paying, inter alia, royalties from in...

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This is heavy

2007-08-24T14:07:22Z

Michael Maloof, who is campaigning Nike to make the shoes that Michael J. Fox wore in Back to the Future Part II, notified me earlier this month that he successfully tracked down the patents. They were designed and do exist, the patents registere...

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Wifi at North Island airports

2007-04-02T23:06:56Z

Auckland Airport wifi: $10 an hour, payable by Mastercard or Visa (which kind of sucks for a guy who uses American Express exclusively). But the food is pretty good, with a Japanese place having opened up there. Wellington Airport wifi, accordi...

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I want the ’net to be an experimental utopia

2007-03-17T09:57:11Z

[Cross-posted] What has dawned on me these days is that the ’net is no longer a place of escape. Not that long ago, businessmen like me could go online, easily ﬁnd colleagues who were interested in making a difference on the planet. Go online no...

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Snakes on a Plane is number one—thanks to the blogosphere

2006-08-21T13:58:37Z

Snakes on a Plane is the number one movie in the US, and its Google references surpassed 47 million—which does make it a certiﬁed hit. I know earlier I had my doubts, especially when the Google references started falling and interest began waning—...

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