This is more-or-less my last blogging day of 2021 (I may sneak a post or two in before the New Year, but I might not), so it’s time for my annual roundup of my book reviews from the year gone by. I’ve sorted this year’s books by genre (sf/f, other…

The world is experiencing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” but the largest pool unvaccinated people isn’t to be found among vaccine deniers of the rich world.

Rather, these vulnerable people — whose infections might spawn new, vaccine-bypassing, more-lethal variants — are the 2.5b …

Seen in one light, America has an epidemic of corporate crime. Companies like United, Boeing, Wells Fargo and Walmart attract hundreds of government enforcement actions. …

This week on my podcast, I read “Give Me Slack,” my latest column for Medium, about the second (and third, and fourth) chances I got growing up, and how scary it is that my kid — and yours — won’t get those chances.

https://doctorow.medium.com/give-me-slack-b4e88a007dbf

From the fourth through the eighth…

#20yrsago Busting the WSJ’s FUD on open 802.11 networks https://web.archive.org/web/20020111221354/80211b.weblogger.com/discuss/msgReader$178

#20yrsago The post-PC interface https://web.archive.org/web/20020118162540/http://www.nooface.net/

#10yrsago Petition to get a pardon for Turing’s “gross indecency” conviction https://web.archive.org/web/20120110183548/https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526

#10yrsago Derek Kirk Kim’s Same Difference: slacker Korean-American kids come of age in the Bay Area https://memex.craphound.com/2011/12/07/derek-kirk-kims-same-difference-slacker-korean-american-kids-come-of-age-in-the-bay-area/…

#20yrsago Chris Raettig on KPMG’s linking legal threats https://web.archive.org/web/20020207141547/http://chris.raettig.org/email/jnl00040.html

#15yrsago Canada’s documentaries lost to copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20061209003316/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061206.wxcopyright06/BNStory/Entertainment/home

#10yrsago Business Software Alliance fractures over SOPA support https://www.cnet.com/news/kaspersky-dumps-trade-group-over-sopa/

#10yrsago Planesrunner: Ian McDonald’s YA debut is full of action-packed multidimensional cool, airships, electropunk and quantum physics https://memex.craphound.com/2011/12/06/planesrunner-ian-mcdonalds-ya-debut-is-full-of-action-packed-multidimensional-cool-airships-electropunk-and-quantum-physics/…

Has the omicron variant — and the prospect of more variants to come, with attendant lockdowns, shutdowns, cancellations and, of course, mass deaths — got you furious?

Yeah, me too.

And like the saying goes, this is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Every time a virus reproduces in a human…

Once, the phrase “one size fits all” was a futuristic boast offered by manufacturers availing themselves of new, high-tech materials that stretched and flexed without tearing or deforming. Today, it’s a curse-word used to damn universal programs. What happened?

As is so often the case with big linguistic shifts, the…