Miniver Cheevy

In a Facebook discussion of my previous post comparing the current web boom with the last one, I observed that one difference between th...

Matthew Yglesias reminds us how crazy Web Boom 1.0 was during the late ’90s. There were a lot of companies whose business plan was: R...

Klint Finley at Techcrunch has an article Geeks For Monarchy about neo-reactionaries like Mencius Moldbug. Lots of good links. It’s n...

Max Landis, the screenwriter of Chronicle , offers us a reading of what Superman is about, inspired by Zach Snyder's Man of Steel . ...

James Mickens' meditation The Night Watch is a very fine example of a certain kind of geeky tech humor. The main thing that I pon...

The Phantom is a big hero in Africa * the jungle. No, really. * Commenter Erik catches me seriously failing to read correctly. ...

A recent conversation reminds me of Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s classic article about the Californian Ideology. This new fait...

I have a Russian “friend” on Facebook (who on later reflection was obviously a Putinist troll farm worker) fascinated by Russian radical ...

In a Facebook discussion, Rhett Aultman observes: N IMBY is a manifestation of externalities. The failure to capture externalities ...

My favorite Dilbert strip. You need more features

Ian Welsh’s crackerjack post Bin Laden’s insights and the Egyptian Coup covers a lot of territory beyond what it says on the tin. Here’...

On Facebook, my friend Miles Kurland says what a lot of people in my biz have been thinking: As a web developer, people keep joking a...

Sarah Palin just delivered a striking example of her rhetorical style. I strongly recommend watching the video to see and hear he...

I've heard him use this metaphor a few times, and it's intriguing. Here's him talking about it in a Wired magazine interview...

A collection called Crossings on Pinterest. Just because.

This is more like notes toward a post rather than a proper blog post. I have these links burning a hole in my pocket and want a place to ...

In the course of a commentary on Hayek's love for Pinochet, Corey Robin gives us this quote from Mises: It cannot be denied that ...

From Thomas Frank's One Market Under God , a summa of market triumphalists' “good cop, bad cop” routine. The market will give ...

“Fun Guy From Lubbock”: If you don't get the joke , never mind.

I decided to consolidate this post with the secret origin of white people post I made less than a week later.

A more personal word about me than I ordinarily post here, connected to some cultural politics I consider more interesting than my own...