Happy hump day, kittens. Don’t worry: with the help of enough bracing beverages and news links, you’ll get over it and on the smooth downhill slide to Thursday. After that, who knows? Maybe Friday! Introducing better ideas is far more… Read More ›
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From the Vault: The Real CEO Letters
From time to time we receive missives of particular interest in our unencrypted public email or our Contact Form. We’d like to share one with you now. Pour yourself a double and use the washroom before reading; this is going… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmations: Airport Edition
Reality hacking via Mary Balogh on Facebook
On the Christmas List: the Knuckle Duster iPhone Case
I need this. So do you. A whopping $15 at Amazon.
Scam Alert: #Anonymous nOPes
Just FYI Anonymous isn’t really holding your PC for ransom. A friend just got this email, CryptoWall virus, claiming to be from Anonymous. http://t.co/1BZIzASwcE #fail #Anonymous (Do not pay them) — Gregg Housh (@GreggHoush) November 2, 2014 Gregg Housh has… Read More ›
Drone Wars: The Eagle Attack!
The latest in our ongoing coverage of the escalating Drone wars. Currently, biowarriors are kicking drone ass: first former sheeple, current rebel Rambro, and now this Unnamed Terror from the Skies. RMIT UAS Research team dogfights with the king of… Read More ›
How to Go to Hell
Cyberpunk? Check. Alt Comix? Check. Burnng Man? Check. Twilight films? Nope. OH THANK GOD THERE’S STILL HOPE FOR ME! Very servicey, 9Gag! How many of these can you tick off? Can anyone fill out their entire card and win a… Read More ›
Mondo 2014: An Interview with Ken “RU Sirius” Goffman
I know, I know, you don’t have to tell me every journalist from Wired to ArsTechnica has used that headline construction. But it works, because when your accomplishments personified, furthered, documented, and disseminated the defining cultural movement of an age, you just… Read More ›
Tweet o’ the Day: Snowden, Stone, and Recursion
Wait for it, people. Just wait. Dear Oliver Stone, You are not allowed to complain when the Snowden script is leaked. — MysteryTVWritersAsst (@MysteryTVWrtrAs) October 9, 2014
Nymwars II: Facebook Welcomes Drag Queens, Bans weev. UPDATE: and he’s BACK!
Congratulations, Facebook! You finally acknowledged peoples’ right to be known by the names they choose. Last week you acceded to demands from the LGBT community and acknowledged that drag queens would be able to have personal profiles under their drag… Read More ›
Tweets o’ the Day: the #UmbrellaRevolution, Car FUD, False Flags at the MMM, Clippy’s a Jerk, and Monsters Under the Bed
It’s been an exceptional evening of tweets from around the world; too busy for us to have the time to inflate each of these into a standalone article, but not too busy for us to just plop them here for… Read More ›
Pic o’ the Day: Che Malkovich!
Now THAT is a face that I would wear on a t-shirt! It’s from a great Sandro Miller series of portraits of actor and icon John Malkovich in costume as various famous portrait subjects. No Queen Elizabeth, but there is… Read More ›
Sparked: A Drone Ballet from Cirque du Soleil
And now, as they say, for something completely different. Quebec entertainment billion-dollar behemoth Cirque du Soleil has broken out of the three ring ghetto with Sparked, a five minute performance video depicting an old-timey lamp maker and his enchanted lampshades. We’re… Read More ›
Word of the Day: “Deconflicting”
John Kerry swears the US is not going to cooperate with the Assad regime in Syria against ISIS. No way. Not a chance. The US is simply going to “deconflict.” Which sounds great, the same way “truthiness” does. When reporters… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto Headlines for September 11
Did you miss us? We did more than our part in the internet slowdown protests of 9/10 by slowing to a complete halt…for twenty hours, while our computer ran a virus scan. Redundancy: not always a bad thing. Must… Read More ›
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