January 2012
“Put your head in a book, it will divert archer’s arrows and prevent...”
– (via laughslut)
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“Over the past three decades, there has been a robust body of literature in the...”
– Men Should Cry (via kateoplis)
Hacked! →
As email, documents, and almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives moves onto the “cloud”—remote servers we rely on to store, guard, and make available all of our data whenever and from wherever we want them, all the time and into eternity—a brush with disaster reminds the author and his wife just how vulnerable those data can be. A trip to the inner fortress of Gmail, where...
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Secrets of the Little Blue Box →
givemesomethingtoread:
In 1971, Slate columnist Ron Rosenbaum wrote an article for Esquire about a loose confederation of proto-hackers who built devices—little blue boxes—that could crack phone networks. According the New York Times obituary of Apple founder Steve Jobs, after reading Rosenbaum’s article, Jobs and his partner in founding Apple, Steve Wozniak, “collaborated on building and...
Neil Gaiman: An open letter to Washington from... →
neil-gaiman:
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users.
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As…
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I was thinking, whilst raiding a caffeine franchise, how it would be nice to ware a mask as acceptable fashion variation. I wanted something 3/4 and essentially a cross between Bowie Aladdin Sane and Los Straightjackets…just so I can tell everyone, this is how I feel, but I can keep the dead eyes all to myself….instead of for the crazy rolling and foaming that seems to be how I was...
