Tue Dec 04
In The Victorian Internet Tom Standage investigates how the telegraph was developed and how it changed the world. He writes about the laying of the Transatlantic submarine cables, the design of codes and the codebreakers, as well as the fraudsters that used the telegraph to find their marks, and those that used it...
Did you hear Tumblr’s getting rid of all the adult sites? Yes, the news is going around. Man, if only Apple wasn’t so prudish! Come again? This is all because Apple pulled the Tumblr app in mid-November after they found child porn on the site. Apple did pull the app because of that, yes, but there’s no evidence...
Documenting my startup journeyThis is one in a series of posts where I document my startup journey. If you just landed here, go to this link and you’ll find all the other posts in the series. I discovered Derren Brown’s work fairly recently. I had seen some references to his magical escapades once or twice, but as...