January 2012
19 posts
Warner Brothers Acquires Tad Williams Sci-Fi... →
One of my favorite series of books - I read these in high school and have gone back to them a couple times since then. I hope they do this well.
“But then one gray morning did Internet Explorer 6 no longer load The Google....”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero. (via thisistheverge)
I am not a hacker. →
stryker:
But in my recent research, I’ve talked with a lot of them. Not just the “lololol we r legion” kind either. The real deal. Guys who now work for McAfee or run their own security contracting firms. When I asked them about whether further government restrictions on internet behavior,…
Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech... →
Any unauthorized usage of the “I Have A Dream” speech and a number of other speeches by King – including in PBS documentaries – is a violation of American law. You’d be hard pressed to find a good complete video version on the web, and it’s not even to be found in the new digital archive of the King Center’s website.
WatchIncredible waves. Scary, amazing stuff.
Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social... →
The secret to building real cities? Really narrow... →
MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the... →
wilwheaton:
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t...
“Parking spaces can be amazingly expensive to fabricate. In aboveground...”
– Between the Lines - The True Cost of Parking
