Charles Pierce is a frequent guest on NPR‘s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” though I didn’t know this until after I read this book (go figure). Despite the inflammatory title, Idiot America isn’t a criticism of the country, but rather a condemnation of the way in which idiocy or nescience has become something to be [...]
For over a decade now, the home for urban legend debunking on the web has been Snopes.com, a personal website run by Barbara and David Mikkelson. While much of its initial incarnation focused on debunking the oldest of the old—”escaped serial killer with a hook” kind of stories, for instance—it has evolved, especially in the [...]
7 April 2009 • Comments are now closed. Unfortunately, they were devolving into a steady stream of people who didn’t bother to read to narrative thus far and added no value at all. You’ll pardon my bluntness in the title, but I find it concise and to the point. My entry “Sam Vaknin’s Self-Love” remains [...]
Andrew Keen has no idea how open models work. In his latest article, he pontificates that the recent economic downturn is a death knell for community-supported or community-built programs/sites/&c. So how will today’s brutal economic climate change the Web 2.0 “free” economy? It will result in the rise of online media businesses that reward their [...]
Even when they lied to your face about having clean air and unfettered internet access for journalists, did you really think they were being forthright with you? The International Olympic Committee failed to press China to allow fully unfettered access to the Internet for the thousands of journalists arriving here to cover the Olympics, despite [...]
I really wish this was an article from The Onion…. but no, it’s not. On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said. His girlfriend told police that they [...]
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