Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: My friend Jelani Cobb talks about how the literature of slavemasters is filled with exasperation over their slaves laughing at invisible jokes. So from time to time you will see people come …
All those words for "hot weather, uncomfortable variety" feel about right now. Sweltering, sultry, torrid, what have you. It broils my brain more than hot weather used to; I feel like a Terry Pratchett troll. …
The friendly people of OpenITP let me co-work there sometimes, so I got to sit in on a chat recently in which Karl Fogel mentioned Telex. Part of how Telex would help censored users is …
"No" is a new Chilean film and if you liked any combination of The War Room/Wag the Dog/Forrest Gump/Goodbye Lenin!/University of Laughs then you should check this out too.
Google Reader will end on July 1st, in just a few days. It looks like many of my friends are switching to the Newsblur service, or running an instance themselves. If you subscribe to this …
Left-justify your name and web address and email address -- no title necessary -- in a legible font. Get the perforated cardstock and do it on a home printer, or get a local copy shop …
Yesterday I was waiting on a subway platform and saw an ad for "The Hangover Part III" (with "The End" at the top), and a movie ad stating "This Is The End". "Wow, they're really …
The cost of making your academic articles inaccessible (that is, not Open Access) at the margins of relevance. The facts on girls in information technology. A farmer on a bus, and software localisation. A Facebook …
Several people recently liked my Geek Feminism post on learning to "scratch your own itch". ... somewhere along the way I got the impression that people usually get into open source via "scratching their own …
Three tips to help new Google Summer of Code applicants and interns, some of which all remote workers could stand to remember: Never let yourself get stuck on a technical question or problem for more …
