August 2003
Elvis Mitchell is wrong about Jack Kirby and I don't even care (Aug 27, 2003)
Elvis Mitchell has written a nice homage to Jack Kirby in today's NY Times. I think Mitchell is wrong in a lot of ways, but I won't complain about Jack Kirby getting some of the credit he deserves. My chief...
Job, a hip hop treat (Aug 25, 2003)
I caught the fantastic show Job: The Hip Hop Musical at the Edmonton Fringe Festival yesterday. Eli Batalion and Jerome Saibil, the show's creators, donned their track suits and took over a bare stage for their fairly astounding re-telling of...
SoBig.F and Reed's Law (Aug 22, 2003)
The proliferation of SoBig.F illustrates the potential negative effects of Reed's Law. The essence of Reed's Law is this: "Networks that support the construction of communicating groups create value that scales exponentially with network size, i.e. much more rapidly than...
