or just making my life more difficult. We blogspotters have been forced onto an interface that looks more like Wordpress, which as far a...

"Wozniak didn't offer much in the way of specifics . . . . [but said, 't]he more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the ...

More at the links. 1. What Facebook Knows . "[O]n 219 million randomly chosen occasions, Facebook prevented someone from seeing a li...

(Sorry I've misplaced the source; pls let me know it, if you do.)

This was a send-off for Shell's arctic rigs at the Seattle Space Needle. The actual rigs were visible outside the window. Incredibly, th...

From an interview of Bob Mcchesney, Prof. of Communications at U. of Illinois, at the Real News Network , by Paul Jay: JAY: So your piece to...

From Robert Reich at Nation of Change : The bets were “poorly executed” and “poorly monitored,” said [Jamie] Dimon [current CEO of JPMorgan ...

Re- the Trans-Pacific Partnership "trade" agreement: From the Yes Lab's press release: DALLAS PARTY ENDS BADLY FOR U.S. TRADE ...

A new user interface is being forced on us bloggers. My and others' experience indicates it's harder to use and offers much less co...

As explained in a 2009 post and by others before me, "insect-resistent" GM plants have in fact been engineered to produce food th...

Thanks to Frugal Dad for this updated chart. (For an even bigger version, click on the image to see it in a separate page, then click on i...

As the Boston Globe reported in a blurb on a paper by Babiak, P. et al., “Corporate Psychopathy: Talking the Walk,” Behavioral Sciences ...

" ThinkProgress, using data on various social spending projects from the National Priorities Project – which does these calculations fo...

(Gif below right from EURAD .)

"CV Dazzle" is based on the original camouflage from WWI and targets automated face detection and recognition systems by altering ...

Per The Utne Reader , The U.S. Supreme Court decided in the widely condemned Citizens United case that corporations enjoy the legal status...

During the last week, there's been a furious exchange of articles and tweets in/re- the Greenwald- Wired fight over the Manning-Lamo ch...

This post unpacks and explores a bit further some thoughts I first touched on here . The Infowar As I've long said, knowledge is pow...

I've updated "The Case for Wikileaks" here . It lays out the arguments and includes lots of links to sources and resources; p...

Another great piece from Glenn Greenwald at Salon , observing, As revealing as the disclosures themselves are, the reactions to them have b...