Epicene Cyborg

May 19, 2012

What Did Historical Swords Weigh?

Economics…not a science, not even a dismal science…just dismal.

Rules Versus Rules: What The New Yorker Got Wrong.

May 15, 2012

Stiglitz: The Invisible Hand is Invisible Because It Isn’t There.

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.

May 12, 2012

When asked by The Barna Group what words or phrases best describe Christianity, the top response among Americans ages 16-29 was “antihomosexual.”

The Post Office Is Not an Other. The Post Office Is Us.

How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform.

I despise this skeuomorphic BS, and it’s why I don’t use iBooks.

May 10, 2012

Fuck these people.

Yep, we’ve completely given up on having a civilization here.

More reasons to pirate everything.

Our food variety has gone way down.

May 9, 2012

In 1958, America accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon on two little girls’ playhouse.

May 8, 2012

America’s idiot rich.

This is really cool.

Great last line in this piece.

May 7, 2012

Real story of the Delta Blues.

Last Words to an America in Decline.

May 6, 2012

Unite against the war on women.

How to fix the annoying right-click behavior on The New York Times site.

May 2, 2012

Wow, clueless person is clueless.

My dad would have done something like this.

May 1, 2012

The ‘Modern College Girl’ Confronts the Great Depression. History does rhyme.

April 29, 2012

This headline made me laugh: Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds.

April 27, 2012

Interview with Brit Marling.

How much would you pay for a self-driving car? A lot. A whole damn lot.

April 25, 2012

Setting the Record Straight: The Housing Bubble Lie.

April 24, 2012

I will be buying ebooks from Tor now, if there is one I am interested in. DRM == no sale.

How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate.

Piracy is not a technology problem.

Yay, Brit Marling’s next movie is out soon!

Locking Down an American Workforce.

April 22, 2012

Electric ladyland: when battery-powered cars were built for women.

April 6, 2012

Doctor Who: should there be a female Doctor? Yes. Next question.

5000+ Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion. And this, not piracy, is exactly what the music industry is terrified of.

Why people pirate.

It is kind of worrying that I understand how a bank actually works better than a Nobel prize winning economist.

The average low-wage worker today is both older and much better educated than the average low-wage worker was in the past.

“Ethicist” sees no ethical issue with excluding qualified women.

April 5, 2012

The Simple Math That Can Save Cities From Bankruptcy.

April 4, 2012

History Stole Your Market Returns.

Cartoon: Really Good Careers.

Votes and Vowels: A Changing Accent Shows How Language Parallels Politics.

April 3, 2012

I think Republicans forgot in their war on women that women still actually have the right to vote.

The Enduring Consequences of Unemployment.

Voting patterns of America’s whites, from the masses to the elites.

Coding Horror: Preserving The Internet… and Everything Else.

April 2, 2012

Thirty-six billions dollars’ worth of student-loan debt is held by people 60 and older.

March 31, 2012

The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish.

But ‘socialism for the rich’ was supposed to be a joke. The truth is that it is now genuinely the way the global economy is working.

The Quietest Place on Earth.

Flash is dead. And about time.

Still a big shortage of jobs for college grads.

March 29, 2012

Push A Button On Your Fridge, Instantly Order A Pizza. I MUST HAVE THIS!

My favorite poet has died.

The USPS is an unmatched bargain, a civic treasure, a genuine public good that links all people and communities into one nation. So, naturally, it must be destroyed.

Yahoo has thrown in the towel completely.

Hot, crowded, and running out of fuel: Earth of 2050 a scary place.

March 28, 2012

How much math do we really need?

Funny, when corporations pirate and cause much harm, nothing happens. When some kid downloads a crappy song, sued for hundreds of thousands.

Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally.

Chrome adblock still terrible.

March 27, 2012

Americans know that the great 401k experiment of the past 30 years has been a disaster. It is now apparent that 401ks will not provide the retirement security promised to workers.

Restrictions on Voter Registration in Florida Have Groups Opting Out.

Google’s big bet was based on bad instincts, jealousy, and hubris — not the curiosity, experimentation, and agility that have characterized them theretofore.

March 25, 2012

How to Write Like a Scientist.

What Landscape Photos Would Look Like if Earth Had Saturn-Like Rings.

March 24, 2012

Climate models pass prehistoric test.

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