If you’ve got a Facebook account, try this experiment: Go to overstock.com and buy something. (I recommend Kwame Appiah’s “Cosmopolitanism” if you’re really stuck for… Read More »Facebook changes the norms for web purchasing and privacy
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The Wikimedia Foundation is in the midst of a two-month long fundraiser, running from October 22 to December 22. Direct fundraising from the online community… Read More »Penny for your thoughts
Thanks to everyone who’s offered virtual tea and sympathy for my laptop crash. As of this evening, everything’s back to normal, and I don’t appear… Read More »Debugging
Dr. Adrian Bowyer, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath, is a man who thinks big. He’d like to… Read More »Pop!Tech: Adrian Bowyer breeds machines.
Rebecca’s got an excellent post up today explaining a critical distinction in Internet censorship in China – the difference between internal and external censorship. In… Read More »Generative filtering