Archives
Dig into my archives for a comprehensive library of my published work from 2001 through 2007. If you are looking for something not appearing here, please contact me directly.
My writing on culture, science and technology has been published widely, including The New York Times, Slate, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, New York Observer, Elle and Salon.com. I've written on everything from bathroom graffiti to evolutionary psychology, computer games to starchitects, and celebrity sex tapes to city planning. Here are some samples.
- Interview: Zenware [CBC Radio]
- Microsoft's Shiny New Toy [MIT Technology Review]
- The Tao of Screen [Slate]
- The Starving Artist’s Revenge
[New York Observer]
- Oliver Sacks' 'Musicophilia': Music is Cure and Curse
[San Francisco Chronicle]
- Q&A with Lewis Lapham
[Boston Globe]
- Literary Death Match
- A Valentine to Science, a Primer for Adults [Globe Books]
- The Day the Yearbook Died [Print]
- Shelf Life: Librarything.com [Print]
- Ian Hundley's Quilting Bee [ELLE]
- The Right Fit [PM Network]
- Literary Guide: Vancouver [Salon.com]
- Heroes: Digg.com [Samsung Digitall]
- The Professor and the Madman [Slate]
- Blurb.com's Book Smarts [Wired News]
- Brave New Desktop [Samsung DigitAll]
- Minister Flaherty Mends Fences [Institutional Investor]
- Animal Copyright [Toronto Star]
- I Quibble
- Regarding the Book
- DOB: Three-Zero
- Grant Wood Hereafter (Or, My New England Travels)
- May update
- Carpe Diem Notebook
- Franklin Mint [Metropolis]
- Elizabeth Spiers's New Deal [Institutional Investor]
- April update
- Andy Warhol, Pale Male [NY Observer]
- Dealbreaker.com [Institutional Investor]
- World Markets [NY Observer]
- The Whitney Biennial, Unexplained [NYT]
- March update
- Acropolis Now [Wired]
- Stalk Market [cbc.ca]
- February update
- Gaming the Revolution [KILLED: New York Times]
- January update
- Roll Your Own Google [Wired News]
- December update
- Envision Sustainability Tools [Vancouver Magazine]
- Flickr's Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake [Vancouver Magazine]
- The Science Behind Acts of God [Wired News]
- October update
- Al Neil, King of the Underground [Globe & Mail]
- The Talented Mr. Dzama [ELLE]
- Student Housing Goes High Concept [Azure]
- Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser [Wired News]
- September update
- LA Story [Metropolis]
- Paul Starr's Beauty [ELLE]
- Riding With the Urban Mappers [Wired News]
- Sim Civics [Boston Globe]
- Site redesign nearly complete
- Diana Thater [Globe & Mail]
- Moshe Safdie [Globe & Mail]
- The Pit Bull Pact [The Province]
- Chairman Mau [ELLE]
- Porn after Paris [Toro]
- Divine Comedy: 30 Days and Nights (So Far) with Dante [Modern Dog]
- Off the Rack [Column for The Tyee; thetyee.ca]
- Todd Gitlin's Media Torrent [National Post]
- Richard Posner's Public Intellectuals [National Post]
- Pop Goes the Opera [Vancouver Sun]
- The Messenger is the Medium [National Post]
- The Design in Everything [Vancouver Sun]
- Bested: Six Seasons of Basketball Heartache [Vancouver Sun]