July 2008
As part of NCsoft’s “Operation Immortality,”... →
Who are the real activists on the U.S. Supreme... →
“Well, now that I’ve heard that the Speaker is looking for evidence that crimes...”
– Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Debunking the Lies About John McCain's Money →
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 →
“In March of this year ORB conducted a poll for the British Channel 4, asking...”
– Iraqi Public Opinion on the Presence of US Troops
“If one will bother to read Obama’s biography, or pay attention to various...”
– Ben Witherington
Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix →
“Newspapers have at least two more huge opportunities. First is to open the...”
– Dan Gillmor
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape... →
“So here’s the bottom line: Mr. Bush deserves some blame for the poor performance...”
– Behind the Bush Bust
What one book would you ask Barack Obama to read? →
“Today’s Republican Party is wholesale “free trade.” A cynic...”
– Leggy, blonde coed hooker wrecks world trade talks
Why I Don't Care That John McCain Wears $500... →
“AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move...”
– Tim Wu
Running the Numbers — An American Self-Portrait →
“Some of the unreleased pages in McCain’s Navy file may not reflect well...”
– McCain’s Secret, Questionable Record
“Somewhere in the last few months, half the population of the planet became...”
– Mark Pesce
“Critics of prison labor, he says, worry that it can take jobs from regular...”
– Battling California fires, inmates find a chance at better role
“Steady-State Economics is one of the most influential environmental books of the...”
– The Revolutionaries
Woman escapes captors by text messaging for help →
“Links are more like sticks than like funnels. There are so many ways to use them...”
– The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
“Even with 95% re-election rates (in bad years), the political class has actually...”
– Glenn Greenwald
Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead →
“President Bush inherited a $100 billion budget surplus upon taking office. He’ll...”
– The Agitator
8 Great Anti-Hacks to Fundamentally Change Your... →
“Right now, a majority of people in America trade their labor for money, and then...”
– Robotic Nation
The Eamespunk Manifesto →
Seven Common Dreams and What They Mean →
“As a society, and as a nation, robots give us a choice. We are entering an...”
– Robotic Freedom
Thank you, internet
marco wrote:
In the “real world” outside of my closest friends, I don’t fit in at all — in far too many ways to list right now when I should be going to sleep. I do a decent job of faking it when necessary, but I really don’t understand most people, and they really don’t understand me. I feel like I’m an outsider. An observer. I’m always completely puzzled (and often saddened) about why people...
Deep Packet Inspection Fuels Deep Controversy →
“I think we have to understand that violence always happens in a context. The...”
– More on Knoxville Church Shooting (via Pica)
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth →
WatchNetroots Nation Keynote
“…there is no country in the world in which the use of official and sustained...”
– Amnesty International
This is Your Brain — This is Your Brain on Cell... →
