Miniver Cheevy

At this moment, one of the communities in which I have an investment is going through a wrenching conversation on the internet about some...

One of my favorite paragraphs ever. From A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century....

Ellen Willis on how free speech can be rough on the oppressed, but also liberating. Symbolic expression, however forceful, leaves a sp...

I have been joking that Darren Aronofsky's forthcoming film Noah is a film for which I may be the only audience. I'm ethnically ...

They are a democratically unaccountable sect of warrior monks who use mind control ... kidnap children to be trained as janissaries ... ...

For future reference: that comic strip explaining the spurious origins of the “research” supposedly demonstrating that the measles vacci...

Tweets from < @dys_morphia > last night: Saw “Talkies” at the basement of Lost Weekend Video tonight, a mix of stand up and sk...

Written for a colleague sweating work left undone. The scope of the project is never more than what you can do in the time available. ...

Arthur Chu, the guy who got flak on the internet for being too good at the TV game show Jeopardy! , has some astute words about the logi...

Big caveat — just a few years after I originally posted this essay, dramatic shifts in the structure of the political right in the US l...

So today designers have been looking at FDA nutrition information labels. The FDA have proposed an improvement of the existing label: ...

One of my whiskey rants when talking about Weird Stuff is how I suspect that the aliens which supposedly crashed near Roswell, New Mexi...

I am reminded again of this unforgettable reflection on what Lady Gaga means. Note that it is from 2009. While the rest of the world ...

This keeps coming up. So a quick word about offensiveness and insults. Someone may find something you say offensive. You may think the...

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simpl...

I've talked about this before, but I'm not perfectly happy with how I've articulated it, so here's two pictures to save ...

A friend who prefers to remain nameless puts a finger on something that has bothered me about “rockstars”, “ninjas”, et cetera . Dear ...

Via Coding Horror, I am reminded of the Wichita State Software Usability Research Lab which publishes some good, instructive research. ...

Saved for future reference, some good talking about talking. If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to d...

One Sunday morning in 1991 some friends and I were visiting a friend who was a UC Berkeley student living on the east side of campus. I n...

A little snippet from Corey Robin's excellent book The Reactionary Mind : The conservative position stems from a genuine convictio...

Drawn by a good plug from the marvelous Jay Smooth, I took a look at the recent report from the folks at Race Forward. Both the content...

Fascinating specifics about Jesus' crafty use of nonviolence. In Jesus’s time, striking someone of a lower class (a servant) with...

Huerca Zafada says something I've said about “pro-life” folks which I've said, only better than I've ever said it. Read the ...

I was just reading a little monograph about political philosophy on the internets, the way you do, and there came the all-too-familiar mo...

Chilling and vitally important. In the startup world, you work hard and you move fast in order to make other people rich. Other ...