A collection of various writings

Here are a few essays I've written:

2016

Text of a facebook post I made regarding an article by Jeffrey Sachs in the Huffington Post.
A letter to Jim Naurekas of FAIR, regarding his blog post 538 Sacrifices Integrity to Go After Sanders on Independents

2012

A presentation entitled Global Warming, the persuasive physics. You can watch a video of it here.
Previous version of the presentation. Video here.

2011

Why is it that Mac fanbois insist on giving Apple a pass on absolutely everything? - a version of an e-mail to a friend
Thought for a hurricane day, an e-mail to my friends.
Another post to the blog Freedom-to-Tinker, on the denoument of LimeWire and spam on gnutella.

2010

A second letter to the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, regarding a letter to the editor.
A letter to the editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly regarding the article Temperatures Rising.

2009

An essay on Freedom of Speech and application to controlling filesharing. This appeared in a somewhat different version on the Princeton CTP blog Freedom-to-Tinker, as a three-part post: (1) (2) (3)
Regarding the recent New York State tax "increase".
An e-mail to Cass Sunstein regarding his article "The Enlarged Republic - Then and Now", New York Review of Books, March 26, 2009. (Two minor corrections from what I originally sent.)
A letter to the editor of the NY Times Magazine regarding their profile of Freeman Dyson.

2008

An e-mail to a friend about the relative carbon footprints of a Prius, an air conditioner, and an airplane - July 2008
A letter to the editors of the NY Review of Books regarding Freeman Dyson's article The Question of Global Warming - June 2008
A letter to the editors of the NY Times regarding Paul Krugman's column Divided They Stand - May 2008
A letter to the editors of the NY Times regarding Paul Krugman's column Hate Springs Eternal - Feb 2008
An exchange with Andrew Revkin about a post on his NY Times blog, dotearth. - Jan 2008
John Tierney's Climate Misrepresentations, a letter to the editor of the N.Y. Times - Jan 2008
Yet another reason not to read The Telegraph , an e-mail to some journalist friends - Jan 2008

2007

The Return of 3-D Movies, a post on Prof. Ed Felton's excellent blog Freedom To Tinker - Dec 2007
Letter to Joe Nocera of the New York Times, regarding his column This Climate Is Surely Full of Hot air - September 2007
An e-mail to a friend regarding Christoper Hitchens - August 2007
Second Letter to The Nation regarding Alexander Cockburn and Global Warming - May 2007
Letter to the NY Times regarding the Kyoto Protocol - May 2007
Letter to The Nation regarding Alexander Cockburn and Global Warming - May 2007
Letter to the NY Times regarding Sea Level Rise - Feb 2007
A review of the global warming section of John Stossel's Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity - Feb 2007
Discussion of the significance of the crack of the copy protection of movies, AACS - Jan 2007

2004

Some thoughts on the subject of income tax rates, prompted by a 20/20 episode. - Mar 2004

2003

On online dating - Aug 2003

2002

From Aug 8 to Nov 22 I did a more or less daily comic strip on the website stripcreator. The characters are various then-recent colleagues from my time at agency.com.

1999-2001 Technicalities
Technicalities was a more-or-less weekly series of humorous musings about the goings on in the Agency.com tech department, e-mailed to the NY office

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1998-2001 The Psychotic State
The Psychotic State was an intermittent e-mail series on technical/philosopical subjects I wrote for my co-workers at Agency.com.