News You Can Bruise for 2008 December 12

I spent the evening taking pictures of and writing descriptions of the buttons my father got at computer trade shows in the early 1980s. Check them out for a glimpse of a time when you could advertise mainframe software with the slogan "Do It With Frequency." I've mentioned these before, but now they're available for your perusal, with explanations of what software packages they're advertising.

More pictures! These are post-QCon pictures from San Francisco, mostly covering my afternoon at the Exploratorium with Susan McCarthy. Guest star: Rohit Khare.

By popular demand (from Susanna), I also put up pictures from Thanksgiving, including a bonus video where my niece Maggie destroys a truck.