WikiLeaks for the win! Thanks to (finally) checking in with our dashboard, we now know that the next time we want to take three days off, we should write about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange just before heading offline, because it… Read More ›
Operation Global Media Domination
Y2K!!!1!
Thank you, kittens! As of today your clickety-clicks have brought The Cryptosphere to 2000 Likes on Fedbook, 1724 Followers on Twitter (where we are, counterintuitively, @_cryptosphere), three or four retweets from WikiLeaks (swoon!), 260,000 views, mentions in Time, PC Week,… Read More ›
2014 in The Cryptosphere
So it is with a hopeful heart and a Godzilla haiku with which we say goodbye to 2014 and hello to whatever tinfoil-reinforcing insanity 2015 will bring. Our first year has been a good one, overall. While we missed our… Read More ›
#Anonymous, #Sony, #Hackers and Other Hashtags: The Cryptosphere Editor Lorraine Murphy on the John, Paul and Mic Show
Well, this was fun. Basically, I love podcasts because I don’t have to comb my hair; hell, sometimes I don’t even have to get out of my pajamas. For the John, Paul and Mic show, however, I had to be… Read More ›
#Anonymous hoax: Hackers to Iggy Azalea: Apologize for Racism or We’ll Reveal Sex Tape
So, here is our editor, quoted alongside @YourAnonNews, on the Anonymous vs Iggy Azalea hoax. Click through to the original to watch the video. MUCH more to come soon on this story. Meantime, that’s another notch for Operation Global Media… Read More ›
Ho Ho Home Sick, Back Monday
Your editor is off sick with the Death Flu of Extreme Deathiness. Normal (contemptuous) service will return on Monday. Please do not adjust your internets. Curt Hopkins’ Numbers column will appear as usual at 7am Vancouver time on Friday. In… Read More ›
Operation Global Media Domination: The Sellout Situation
Well kittens, there’s light and no other word for it. Yesterday your humble editor had the great honour of turning down the first offer for The Cryptosphere. True, it was a merger rather than a buyout, but we’ve studied our… Read More ›
Operation Global Media Domination: The Facebook Situation
Well, this was a more-than-pleasant surprise. This was, in fact, a screamingly awesome surprise for a baby website. Thanks to everyone on Facebook, our biggest referrer, and what up, you people at Hacker News?
Operation Global Media Domination: The Situation
Well kittens, we’re deep into the Long Weekend. Which Long Weekend we know not; we only realized it was one when we checked our friends on Facebook. But nonetheless this is a long weekend in BC, Best Province of Canuckistan,… Read More ›