Aside from the fact that we have Big Brother, deadlines, diets and one hundred different ways to get in touch with people electronically in order to tell them what a crazy fool they were last night, the one thing that distinguishes us modern folks from our ancestors is noise. We’re surrounded by it from the [...]

I spend a lot of time in the company of computers. I’ll happily profess that I know a thing or two about how they work, and then more often than not will regret doing so because whoever’s on the end of my professing will immediately ask me to fix the problem they’ve got with their [...]