Patently Absurd

February 8th, 2002

Here’s a great article by science writer, James Gleick on the ludicrous mess that is the US Patent Office: "Patently Absurd".

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Hand-picked highlights from the archive.

Split
Materials and tools; client and server; declarative and imperative; inclusion and privilege.
Web! What is it good for?
Not absolutely nothing, but not absolutely everything either.
Seams
There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Hyperdrive
Last night in San Francisco.
Design doing
The opposite of design thinking.
Iron Man and me
The story of how one of my Flickr pictures came to be used in a Hollywood movie.