I've been playing a lot of Star Wars: The Old Republic this week and posting about it to my LiveJournal and Dreamwidth, I've been looking for an excuse to post a Star Wars entry that is still on-topic for this blog.* Yesterday evening, I stumbled across not one, but two items that fit the bill.

First, from The Bad, the Ugly, and the Irrelevant: The ( Read more... )

The Atlantic: The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks
Jaron Lanier

The degree of sympathy in tech circles for both Wikileaks and Anonymous has surprised me. The most common take seems to be that the world needs cyber-pranksters to keep old-school centers of power, like governments and big companies, in check. Cyber-activists are ( Read more... )

As I was reading one of Vanity Fair's two recent articles on Sarah Palin, quite a few things struck me, both serious and silly. I'm saving the serious ones for another post. This entry is for the silly ones.

The first silly item that struck me was this blurb about her shoes.

An Amazon.com store called the North Star Group, maintained by a Palin ( Read more... )