Source: The Internet With A Human Face – Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk
Americans have an almost perverse faith in the rule of law. They believe that, as long as the secret courts are making sure the secret police obey the secret laws, our democracy is safe.
Source: Web Design – The First 100 Years
When you were a kid, you probably spent hours outside and unsupervised. It’s not that way anymore.
Source: When did parents get so scared? – The Boston Globe
I’m glad I’m well beyond this stage now, and even my grandchildren are beyond it. Nevertheless, an interesting and well-written article.
Don’t drink and derive, kids
Source: Sane people, I BEG you: Stop the software defined moronocalypse • The Register
and also: Rise up against Oracle class stupidity and join the infosec strike
By their very nature, mobile phones make telephony seem unreliable.
I question the word “seem”. Modern telephony is unreliable.
An excellent essay on why we don’t make phone calls any more, without even mentioning Automatic Voice Response systems. Everything that Prof. Bogost describes here explains why we don’t call our friends so much any more, and AVR on top of all that explains why we hate, hate, hate to have to call any business about anything any more.
We must not be hypocrites. The liberal ethos, after all, claims a far higher degree of intellectual flexibility and open mindedness than rigid, panicky conservatism. It’s what keeps the Left sane, dynamic, (mostly) free of nutball extremists, and (mostly) connected to reality, while the Right gets the unhinged, psychotic, racist comeuppance it so very much deserves.
Source: Have anti-GMO activists gone off the rails? – Notes & Errata by Mark Morford
Only when you hit 60 can you put yesterday’s worries behind you, the writer discovers.