Nailchipper: archive

Nailchipper is going through a redesign, so expect things to look strange in the next few days. The top navigation wont work until the end of the week (except the “weblog” link) and some of the font sizes will be a bit funky while I play with the stylesheets. I asked Dylan Knight Rogers create [...]

The following was a comment I wrote in Future of the Book, in the post Rosenzweig on Wikipedia.
While some people think that finding an error in Wikipedia is a sign of its weakness, I am reassured that this is Wikipedia’s greatest strength.
I found this quote in the essay particularly interesting:

The limited audience for subscription-based [...]

The New York Times had an article called “Growing Wikipedia Revises Its ‘Anyone Can Edit’ Policy“, which I found fairly interesting, but was bothered by some of the quotes I read, especially those of Nicholas Carr.

Ideals always expire in clotted, bureaucratic prose. It distances the killer from the killing.
–Nicholas Carr

Poetic, but has little to do [...]

I found a very interesting essay in the New York Times, called “The End of Authorship” by John Updike, and then realized that it was being discussed on the Future of the Book.
While Ben Vershbow was critical of the essay because he thought Updike is a “nostaligic elitist”, I thought I’d defend the essay’s sentiment, [...]

From Wikipedia:

This page highlights images that we find beautiful, shocking, impressive and informing. It is the visual equivalent to featured articles and, as such, even more subjective.

This is a featured picture, which means that community consensus has identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article.

The [...]

I found the best oranges in the world and they are located right……. here. It’s in the local c-town, town, town, town, town, town…

I’ve been a real busy bee recently. I moved to Greenpoint, in Brooklyn, a few days ago and so far it’s been great! I am in the tip of Brooklyn and I’ve been exploring the old factory buildings and parks that are near by. In the next few days I plan on walking over to [...]