Linkblog

• Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation - A takedown of Time’s ‘Me Me Me Generation’ cover story about Millenials
• Living in space - Living in space was meant to be our next evolutionary step. What happened to the dream of the final frontier?
• Why You Should Ski In Afghanistan
• Lying For The Revolution: John Roughan Defends Neoliberalism - Chris Trotter lambasts John Roughan’s misrepresentation of the history of Neoliberalism in New Zealand.
• Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison. - US authorities take a dim view of calculated ignorance of criminal activity and the hacker/maker refrain that ‘technology is morally neutral’.
• The coming civil war over general purpose computing - Cory Doctorow asks: ‘Even if we win the right to own and control our computers, a dilemma remains: what rights do owners owe users?’
• Diving Deep into Danger - A fascinating portrait of commercial deep-water divers.
• Is Having A Child A Rational Decision?
• How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp
• The Fireplace Delusion - Want to know how it feels to be a theist stung by atheist criticism? Read Sam Harris’s argument that we ought to ban recreational burning of wood.
• Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - A riveting multimedia experience from the New York Times.
• Overview (video) - The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound und
• Happiness Is a Worn Gun
• The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent - First fourteenth-century Venice, now twenty-first century America?
• The Brain on Trial - Advances in brain science are calling into question the volition behind many criminal acts.
• G.N.A.R. (video) - A ski movie by Scott & Robb Gaffney, and Shane McConkey.
• Robots Say the Damnedest Things
• Louis C.K. And The Rise Of The 'Laptop Loners'
• Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore
• Monopoly Is Theft - The antimonopolist history of the world’s most popular board game.
• The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race - Was the adoption of agriculture a catastrophe, rather than the miraculous advance that conventional wisdom suggests?
• The Movie Set That Ate Itself - On the set of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling film cum totalitarian society, Dau.
• Here Be Monsters - The story of three Tokelau teenagers lost in the Pacific Ocean in a tiny dinghy for 51 Days
• The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
• A Letter To The Guy Who Harassed Me Outside The Bar