Privacy, Accuracy, Security: Pick Two
The Problems with Compulsory Licensing Millions of people want to download music for, essentially, free. The record companies don’t want…
Letter from Knuth
Half a year ago I read Knuth’s book Surreal Numbers. Written in the style of a children’s book it explains…
Super Searching
(Updated 2002-07-29, see below.) The New York Times reports that Amazon is considering a service to allow their users to…
Dodging Trains
Yes, it’s time the exciting impressionistic story of why this site is now up. 9:40a: vorpal, the server that hosts…
Cards
I just got back from Boston. I didn’t have to show ID either way. Being underage does have some benefits,…
Aaron’s Censorware
Ed Felten half-seriously suggests that we create censorware that doesn’t overblock and has an open list, so that US libraries…
San Francisco Moment
On the way to the car we saw a really broken car speeding along with half the SFPD following behind…
Scott McCloud is Back!
Scott McCloud is one of my favorite writers and his medium, comic books, simply adds to the joy of his…
Aaron Swartz (me@aaronsw.com)