About 4 years ago, I said to Julio that as soon as they start burning books, it’ll be time to man the barricades. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the first book they burned was Fahrenheit 451 (which, by a strange … Continue reading →

When a selection of prominent conservatives pen articles like these and Washington Monthly prints them… Let’s quit while we’re behind What a wrench it must be for him to pick up his paper every morning and read the now-daily debate … Continue reading →

A couple of days after 9/11, I was listening to NPR on the way to work and they had a story about how Clear Channel, the largest owner of radio stations in the United States, had distributed a list of … Continue reading →

For the last few years, the Biased Liberal Media have found themselves in a bit of a dilemma. Many of the political stories since early 2003 have been of the form [prominent republican leader] said yesterday that “the democrats say … Continue reading →

I have wanted to say something like this for a long while, but this letter to the NYTimes editor says it perfectly. As a longtime peace activist who was opposed to the Iraq war from the beginning, I deeply resent … Continue reading →

Raph Koster is one of my favourite bloggers. He was a lead designer on the best game of all time. His blog is nominally about games but he covers a lot of the surrounding territory too. Today’s post is about … Continue reading →

Stephen Colbert encouraged his viewers to demonstrate the wikiality – if enough people believe that something is true, then it is true – of Wikipedia. He asked everyone to edit every article on that mentions elephants and add the fact … Continue reading →

Henry Jenkins does an interesting bit of search and replace … USA Today can’t resist jumping on the DOPA bandwagon though, tossing off in the middle of an article otherwise concerned with youth engagement with social networking the following: To … Continue reading →

I was just reading an interview with Matt and Trey (South Park is in way up in the top 3 favourite shows in our house) and a couple of things jumped out. First of all, I love this line from … Continue reading →

I contributed for the first time last night to a Wikipedia discussion page. The entry on Godwin’s Law was missing the most interesting fact – that Godwin deliberately created his law as an experiment in memetics. He wanted to see … Continue reading →