- IBM: Our Mac-Using Employees Outperform Windows Users in Every Way Well, well. Seems that one IT support person can support 5,400 Mac users, while the company needed one per 242 PC users. Only 5 percent of Mac users called the help desk for assistance, compared with 40 percent of PC users.
- The Internet dream became a nightmare. What will become of it now? Opening piece for a New York Times Magazine series for recovering utopians.
- What is an aircraft carrier? Answer: a $13bn floating target.
- The California wildfires Vivid LRB diary piece by Meehan Crist about living with (and perhaps dying from) climate change.
Memex 1.1
John Naughton's online diary
