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January 19, 2009
Brave New World
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Hack Attack
- Talk story about hackers bringing down SoapBlox, which administers more than a hundred liberal blogs…
January 7, 2009
Blog: The Balance Sheet
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Will the Times Live?
- Felix Salmon has a smart riposte to Michael Hirschorn’s new piece in The Atlantic, in which Hirschorn provocatively suggests that the Times, at least in its print incarnation, could be out of business by May....
December 15, 2008
A Reporter at Large
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Atomic John
- A REPORTER AT LARGE about John Coster-Mullen’s painstaking research into the inner workings of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. The writer first came across John Coster-Mullen’s name in 2004 after attending an exhibit by the artist Jim Sanborn that included what appeared to be exact…
November 03, 2008
Annals of Technology
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The Grammar of Fun
- ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY about video game designer Cliff Bleszinski. Gears of War, a shooter game, which Epic Games released in November, 2006, for play on Microsoft’s Xbox, was quickly recognized as the first game to provide the sensually overwhelming experience for which the console had been designed. Gears won virtually…
September 15, 2008
A Reporter at Large
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The Long Dig [ABSTRACT]
- A REPORTER AT LARGE about engineer Martin Herrenknecht and tunnelling machines. The people of Allmannsweier, Germany, have never really grown used to the giant mechanical worms outside their village. When the worms first appeared, nearly thirty years ago, they were just little machines, built by a local engineer named Martin…
November 12, 2007
A Reporter at Large
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Unconventional Crude
- ANNALS OF ECOLOGY about extracting oil from the Alberta tar sands. The most important resource in the town of Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, is the Alberta tar sands. The tar sands begin near the border of Saskatchewan and extend north and west almost to British Columbia. All in all…
July 07, 2008
A Reporter at Large
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The Island in the Wind
- A REPORTER AT LARGE about a Danish community’s shift to renewable energy. Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. Samsø, which is roughly the size of Nantucket, sits in the Kattegat, an arm of the North Sea. It has twenty-two villages and, for…
June 23, 2008
Annals of Technology
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Hello, Hal
- ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY about speech-recognition technology and conversational computers. Not long ago, a caller dialed the toll-free number of an energy company to inquire about his bill. He reached an interactive-voice-response system, or I.V.R. The writer listened to the call some months later, in the offices…
June 02, 2008
Annals of Technology
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Non-Lethal Force [ABSTRACT]
- ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY about Charles Heal and non-lethal weapons. “Lethal weapons are defined by their capability,” says Charles Heal, an expert in non-lethal weapons. “Non-lethal are defined by their intent.” In the hands of the police, non-lethal weapons are meant to resolve a crisis without anyone…
May 12, 2008
The World of Fashion
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Pixel Perfect
- THE WORLD OF FASHION about digital retoucher Pascal Dangin. Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. Art directors and admen call him when they want someone who looks less than great to look great, or someone who looks amazing to look superhuman. In the March issue of
