Object permanence

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Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

#20yrsago Shirky: Net is a kayak, driven by its environment https://corante.com/many/folksonomies-are-a-forced-move-a-response-to-liz/

#20yrsago Whistler’s Delight mashup mixes 22 whistling songs https://web.archive.org/web/20050909012025/https://www.djriko.com/music/DJ Riko — Whistler’s Delight (Full version).mp3

#15yrsago Londoners: Mass photography event in Trafalgar Square today! I’m a photographer, not a terrorist https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/tags/phnat

#15yrsago Activist ejected from “public” meeting on secret copyright treaty for tweeting https://pisanty.blogspot.com/2010/01/acta-consulta-del-impi-en-mexico.html

#15yrsago Remembering the golden age of pulps with Robert Silverberg https://francesca.net/silverberg.html

#15yrsago O’Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales https://web.archive.org/web/20100406013442/http://toc.oreilly.com/2010/01/2009-oreilly-ebook-revenue-up-104-percent.html

#15yrsago Defective by Design anti-DRM picket at Apple tablet launch https://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple-tablet-san-francisco-launch

#15yrsago EFF won’t give up the fight over NSA warrantless wiretapping https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/01/21

#15yrsago Canada’s National Film Board online archive: a success story https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2010/01/21/online-video-stats/

#15yrsago Naked airport scanner catches cellphone, misses bomb components https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/german_tv_on_th.html

#10yrsago They put a Pirate Party MEP in charge of EU copyright reform: you won’t believe awesomesauce that followed https://www.discuto.io/en/consultation/6240

#5yrsago The 1970s called and they want their proto-McMansions back! https://mcmansionhell.com/post/190405899096/the-mcmansion-hell-yearbook-1970

#5yrsago Angelenos! Come to ICANN this Friday to Save Dot ORG! https://www.eff.org/event/savedotorg-protest-icann

#5yrsago The sordid tale of Microsoft’s epic tax evasion and the war they waged against the IRS https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher

#5yrsago Forensics team accuses Prince Bone Saw of hacking Jeff Bezos’s phone to obtain kompromat and force Washington Post silence on Khashoggi https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/report-bezos-phone-uploaded-gbs-of-personal-data-after-getting-saudi-princes-whatsapp-message/

#5yrsago Boeing indefinitely halts 737 Max production https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/21/business/boeing-737-max-production-halt/index.html

#5yrsago Sonos warns customers that their older speakers will shortly be e-waste https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/sonos_bricking_laudio_gear/

#5yrsago Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family’s life under the Khmer Rouge https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/year-of-the-rabbit-a-graphic-novel-memoir-of-one-familys-life-under-the-khmer-rouge/

#5yrsago In serving big company interests, copyright is in crisis https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/in-serving-big-company-interests-copyright-is-in-crisis/

#1yrago Boeing, Spirit and Jetblue, a monopoly horror-story https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/#will-eventually-stop

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