Month: January 2011
Coding Horror – Trouble In the House of Google
I’m seeing this start cropping up as well where Google seems to be failing in filtering out spam or content farm sites.
The New Yorker – Sorting out the Senate
In Congress it isn’t majority rule, it’s super-majority rule.
Toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq : The New Yorker
This is a classic New Yorker story, take a single idea or story go really in depth, pull interesting nuggets and raise questions.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – 2010 Trend Watch Update: Global Internet Censorship
Censorship and the internet, what’s up with that.
Thomas Hawk – Miami’s World Erotic Art Museum Fraudulently Uses the DMCA to Take Down Items in Their Collection From the Web
Another in a long list of DMCA abuses.
Center for the Study of the Public Domain – What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?
Wouldn’t it be nice if copyright actually made some sense, but that’s crazy talk.
Schneier on Security – Full Body Scanners: What’s Next?
Simply and beautifully put.
Truthout – Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice
Arizona really is just a bundle of crazy isn’t it.
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Climate Change
An entire comic devoted to showing what climate change is, why local events don’t prove or disprove it, why it is happening and why it is caused by humans, event tackling Climategate along the way.