January 2010
31 posts
“You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in...”
– Thomas Frank talking to the BBC, “Why do people often vote against their own interests?”
“This particular skimmer was found Dec. 6, 2009, attached to the front of a...”
– Brian Krebs, “Would you have spotted the fraud?”
“I remember my parents’ friends and relatives gathering in our house, joking...”
– Hovik Melikyan, “The era of black boxes”
“In the aftermath of Google’s announcement, some members of Congress are reviving...”
– Bruce Schneier, “U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google”
“The U.S. Customs may search your laptop and copy your hard drive when you cross...”
– Andrew Appel, “No warrant necessary to seize your laptop”
“Bait cars are used in police departments across the country, and Austin police...”
– Michael May, “Police bait car program lands couple who reported suspicious car in court”
“American Indians have been photographed so much, with and without our...”
– Debbie Reese, “A conversation about book covers and race”
“Truth be told, the fundamental problem isn’t with the end merchants, anyway. The...”
– Sherri Davidoff, “BofA discloses ‘undisclosed’ breach”
“Collaboration technology doesn’t need to be re-invented every six years. The...”
– Ted Dziuba, “Break my concentration and I break your kneecaps”
“It’s the fish that live at about 1,000m deep in the mid-water that are really...”
– Dr. Alan Jamieson talking to Rebecca Morelle, “Meet the creatures that live beyond the abyss”
“When I was there, anyone of color who shopped at Anthro was seen as a suspected...”
– Anonymous, “Anthropologie doesn’t care about black people”
“A hundred years is not eternity, but you are not Shakespeare, and it’s a start.”
– Jeffrey Zeldman, “Posthumous hosting and digital culture”
“What exactly is not conservative about a profession where its aspirants are held...”
– Claire Potter, “Lefty loosey, righty tighty: sociologists try to explain the political orientation of the academy”
“One of the characteristics of the luxury educational system is that it is...”
– Mark Neustadt, “The dumbbell”
“There’s no shame in making him a memory and moving on, but there’s not much...”
– The Last Psychiatrist, “Merry Christmas”
“The Alyawarr cultural response leads us not to Canberra but to Country not to...”
– John Hartley, “Message from John Hartley”
“Large quantities of salt will also preserve foods—thus salted fish like cod and...”
– Giselle, “PSA: on food preservation”
“Sometimes you can do everything right and have it still turn out wrong. Welcome...”
– Bruce Schneier, “David Brooks on resilience in the face of security imperfection”
“Well, said Billy, you can’t just wake up as a giant bug. Billy, are you saying...”
– Brent Simmons, “Notes in no good order about success, part one”
“I think it’s wrong that the WHAT-WG believes it owns the canonical version of...”
– Marcos Caceres, comment on “What’s Next in HTML, episode 1”
“A lot of photo software programs allow users to turn photos into sepia, and it...”
– Debbie Reese, “American Indians/American Presidents”
“After what felt like half an hour of panicking, I suddenly noticed something...”
– Jon Hicks, “Radiohead Puppet Show”
“And if you’re in the future and you don’t know who Karl Rove is… he’s the reason...”
– Eugene Mirman on Comedy Central Presents
“Back then, our userbase consisted of about thirty intrepid testers who had...”
– Maciej Cegłowski, “Six Months of Pinboard”
“The only thing more awesome than a pig is a grizzly bear with swords for teeth...”
– Matthew Inman, “Five reasons pigs are more awesome than you”
“Happy New Year, dear Apple faithful. And namaste. I honor the place where your...”
– Fake Steve, “Holy crap I just woke up and realized it’s January already”
“To see the title AVATAR (all caps!) typeset in yours truly. Well, I practically...”
– Pr*tty Sh*tty, “An Open Letter to James Cameron From Papyrus”
“A lot of people say that the special effects make the movie enjoyable. A lot of...”
– Debbie Reese, “We saw Avatar…”
“In theory, snide words commit arson; your ears smolder from my remarks. I’ll...”
– Adrian S. Potter, “A Condensed History of Anger, With Footnotes”
“We improvised this topping for hake: mix dijon mustard with melted butter and a...”
– Lizz, “Thursday: Hake with a mustard-amaranth crust”
“Fire Walk With Me is hard to look at if you’re not prepared to look at a work of...”
– Ray Wise, interview (DVD extra)