Total Control and a Borrowed Bucket
Mr. Clemens on the President’s diesel deal with Moscow A letter to the editor, from the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the fuel pump To the Editor: Sir — I spent the better part of my youth on the Mississippi, where I learned one rule above the rest: a pilot who tells you
Nine Bathrooms Out of Ten
A letter to the editor, from the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the rental listing To the Editor: Sir — I have in my time been shown a great many remarkable machines, and have found that the more remarkable the machine, the more modestly its inventor will describe how it came to be.
Built Together, Billed Separately
To the Editor: Sir — I see by the papers that a concern called Amazon, whose chief business appears to be the delivery of everything to everybody by Thursday, has announced that it will spend more than one billion dollars over five years upon the towns that have the misfortune to host its data centers. It calls the program “Built
The Television Is Watching You Back
I was raised to believe a television was a box you watched. It turns out I had the arrangement backwards. Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and a university in Madrid sat down and did the plain, unglamorous work of watching what a smart TV sends out over the wire while you watch it. They published their findings at