Via Jed: A guy peacefully protests in front of some banks in Daly City, California, and the police protect his right to do so. Shocking! "I'm no activist. I have never done anything like this …

Intro music to tonight's Mike Daisey piece (about Apple, Chinese sweatshop labor, and control) included Jonathan Coulton's "Skullcrusher Mountain." Outro music included Barcelona's "I Have The Password To Your Shell Account." Very good pandering (to …

I want to buy a smartphone. Help me decide. I care about: Freedom (I want root on my phone without having to jailbreak it) Hardware quality Operating system quality (random crashiness is not acceptable) Operating …

I went to New Orleans and ate several beignets. And I wrote a bunch of email instead of blog posts. I find that when people ask me how I am doing, I just end up …

At some point this week I hope to post more about the MediaWiki hackathon I just led. Right now I am exhausted and .... too tired and distracted to even effectively finish that sentence, evidently. …

I have not blogged about Ada Lovelace Day because I have been busy today taking care of my mom. Soon, belatedly.

If you are writing a piece of fiction, and you want to pass the Bechdel test but you don't know what women talk when we talk with other women, you might need some ideas. Here …

My spouse is trying to figure out what makes Kickstarter fundraising projects most likely to hit their goals. Economists, have at!

I have found Danny O'Brien's new blog: the Noisebridge mailing list. noisebridge-discuss entrances me because it's techno-anarchism in action, a lot like the Wikimedia movement, except it's way smaller, a higher proportion of the members …

Just finished REAMDE, walked into the study, thudded it onto Leonard's desk, and said with wonder, "I cannot recommend that you read this." I cannot recall the last Stephenson I read that had fewer ideas, …