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martinlkennedy: All you ever need to know about computers. From The Computer: A Ladybird How It Works Book (1979 edition)
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If you’re using the Internet, you are being experimented on. Period. Pop Loser No. 5: Watched with the detachment of god. (via krislane)
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Why Hate Soccer?
Why Hate Soccer? But as journalist Franklin Foer observed in his 2004 book, How Soccer Explains the World, it’s not really about soccer. Soccer simply offers a new turf to play out the “culture wars” between cosmopolitanism and traditionalism. It is a divide, driven by globalization, between a relativist worldview that embraces diversity and global…
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robertreich: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY: A LECTURE TO THE TOP ONE-TENTH OF 1 PERCENT Here’s the Aspen Lecture I gave recently at this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival. The irony of talking about inequality with an audience composed almost entirely of the richest one-tenth of 1 percent of Americans was not lost on me.…
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christianmccrea: http://www.martin.nerurkar.de/games/sushi-hands/sushi.html Totally into how this looks, an awkward quick-hands party game called Sushi Hands, coming out of the Lyst game jam on sex and love.
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mattahan: Cannot be stressed enough.
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emergentfutures: Foothill grad earns degree entirely online A Berkeley-bound student who earned his associate’s degree entirely online is among nearly 1,000 students who will graduate from Foothill College Friday, June 27. From his home in Mendocino — or occasionally sitting in a Mendocino café or library — James Sommermann completed 23 Foothill classes online in…
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theunicornfiles: Featured Geek: Phoenix Perry [On being a female geek in a male dominated field] “I was so freaked out by being in the computer science lab as a women when I was 18 that I left the field and became self taught. I couldn’t do my homework without being hit on and that was…
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NSA considers anyone who researches Tor or Tails to be a target for ongoing suspicion
mostlysignssomeportents: America’s National Security Agency gathers unfathomable mountains of Internet communications from fiber optic taps and other means, but it says it only retains and searches the communications of “targeted” individuals who’ve done something suspicious. Guess what? If you read Boing Boing, you’ve been targeted. Cory Doctorow digs into Xkeyscore and the NSA’s deep packet…
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ilovecharts: Messi is a Beast via Chris Keefe