Free Culture Wiki: Piracy Hits a New Low

In the latest example of blatant intellectual property abuse, self-proclaimed “hacker” Aaron Swartz has uploaded the entirety of the bestselling…

How iTMS Works

I just finished writing Behind the iTunes Music Store: A Technical Description of iTMS and FairPlay. As you might guess,…

Against All Enemies: The Movie

I’ve been reading Clarke’s new book, Against All Enemies, and I have to say, for the first chapter at least,…

Shorter Richard Clarke

Executive summary: There’s a serious chance 9/11 could have been stopped. Bush wanted to invade Iraq instead. White House Terrorism…

Markdown

For months I’ve been working with John Gruber on a new project. The idea was to make writing simple web…

President Bush: Why Can’t He Stop Lying?

President Bush, apparently unable to run on his nonexistant record, has resorted to running misleading attack ads against his opponent,…

Wonderfalls

Last week I saw the most amazing new show on TV called Wonderfalls. It had heart, and depth, and was…

Shorter Tom DeLay

Tom DeLay raised $12M from outside companies who had business before the House. He passed the money on to selected…

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