Worf:

There is the theory of the Mobius ... a twist in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop ...

Ben Hammersley:

The freeing of public data over the past ten years has been driven by geeks, it's true, but their arguments were merely foreshadowing a general shift in the mindset of the population at large.

The you-show-me-yours-I'm-already-showing-you-mine deal is the next big movement. Nevermind government league tables: we want everything.

We expect everything. And we expect it on our own terms.

David Remnick:

Ten years after the attacks, we are still faced with questions about ourselves -- questions about the balance of liberty and security, about the urge to make common cause with liberation movements abroad, and about the countervailing limits. Only absolutists answer these questions absolutely.

Paul Ford:

Why so many people in real estate? Because ... locked away inside the brick walls and ballustrades there is a trillion dollars ... And when a number has that many zeros, people look to fill them.

We too wanted our cut, our large box of air and our sunset, and the comfort of 30 years of obligation to a huge and terrible bank. To fill in the zeros for ourselves. So it was with glad hearts that one afternoon at a strange legal office deep in Brooklyn, in a windowless room at the back, we pushed checks across a table. They handed us the keys, and then everyone -- including my wife and I -- went home.

Katharine Mieszkowski:

Geeks talking amongst themselves on Usenet about how Usenet should best be run, while having fun with homonyms: Almost 20 years later, has anything really changed?

Lapham's Quarterly:

Thirty to sixty million -- the estimate of buffalo in the United States in the early 1800s. 1,200 -- the estimate some ninety years later.

100 years of East London style in 100 seconds.

Adam Gopnik:

If you and I had the self-discipline to plan our meals and lay out our ingredients thoughtfully, we could soon be making electric eel powder with goat-... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ]