In 2012 I was traveling through China and had made my way to Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi province. In the Shaanxi province you have Mt. Hua (华山), one of the Five Great Mountains of China. It’s a 12-18 hour hike to the summit, which is typically done overnight because you don’t want to see […
Over the past year, Mozilla and the U.S. Department of Energy have been quietly collaborating on a project to demonstrate connected learning and workforce training opportunities on the modern web. As part of US Ignite and Mozilla Webmaker, members of the Mozilla community have produced a shared v...
Earlier today I was waiting for a friend at an arcade in Fukuoka, Japan. Saw a claw machine where the prizes were massive Pringles cans. “I’m going to win that enormous Pringles can.” I said to myself. “Sour cream and onion.” ¥100 per try. I was out of ¥100 coins (from playing Street Fighter, of […
Like everyone else, the death of Steve Jobs has me thinking. I’ve mainly been thinking about how much cooler Apple was before the iOS era. Before Apple distilled personal computing into 114 pixel icons with rounded corners and turned it into a cycle of continuous consumption, it was a very differ...
Last year, at the height of the mania, I considered running a far-advance presidential campaign for Levi Johnston, father of Sarah Palin’s grandchild. Why not? He’d be a good a candidate as her, maybe as qualified. I registered the domain name http://levi2028.com, but quickly abandoned the idea....