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March 2014

March 02, 2014

Amazon, leading the way…back to the 19th Century!

Check out Simon Head's "Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

Why is Apple denying Americans information about their governnment’s drone attacks?

If you care about the health of American democracy and/or the large numbers of civilians...

October 2010

October 23, 2010

Tips for Internet-based scholarship

I write painfully little these days, but I save huge amounts of online references for...

September 2009

September 22, 2009

Local activism from abroad

This is quite random (not to mention old, as it's dated Nov 3, 2008), but...

July 2009

July 21, 2009

Report on the Arabic Blogosphere

Dustin over at His Peace Upon Us, a thoughtful and recommended new Christian blog dedicated...

June 2009

June 09, 2009

Latest pseudo-science inspired by this blog’s title

I see it more of a quirk of the unexpected workings of Internet media than...

November 2008

November 15, 2008

The case of the purloined curly quotes.

I'm making final revisions to a masters thesis that's had stuff pasted in from many...

October 2008

October 14, 2008

Ignore messages from FanBox

Judging by my inbox over the last few days, a lot of people I know...

August 2008

August 12, 2008

Sometimes you DON’T get the best deal online

I've found this rather counterintuitive, so I thought I'd share for bargain hunting posterity.Since I...

March 2008

March 17, 2008

The power of HTML: The Synoptic Gospels Primer

It's rare that I see web page that so perfectly captures the power of HTML...

January 2008

January 31, 2008

Past writings & the dangers of Internet procrastination

Having grown weary of the chore of googling myself every time I want to find...

November 2007

November 30, 2007

I’ve taken a second wife

She's a svelte, multi-lingual beauty from Sweden. Now, if she just spoke Arabic, too, she'd...

June 2006

June 05, 2006

Forget blowing up the Death Star. Try being a Third World farmer!

There's a fascinating and innovative new "Civilization"-style web-based game in the works where you take...

June 03, 2006

Islamist mods of popular video games

Speaking of Muslims and the Internet... Islamists using US video games in youth appeal -...

May 2006

May 31, 2006

Virtually Islamic

Thought I'd share a very interesting blog that charts the intersection of Islam and the...

February 2006

February 21, 2006

Akram’s Razor, debasing philosophical discourse on the Internet

In order to share an amusing anecdote, I'm going to have to admit doing something...

January 2006

January 25, 2006

A family member passes

My beloved laptop Mjolnir (the name of Thor's hammer) has moved on to greener hotspots. ...

January 20, 2006

Essential downloads for kewl bloggers

Aggregate your news/bogs with RSSAre you reading blogs by typing in each site's URL and...

October 2005

October 02, 2005

Jews, Muslims, black magic & pornography

One of the less obvious advantages of maintaining a blog or any other website is...

September 2005

September 24, 2005

Reality vs. Fiction in online gaming

Just now, I came across a Wikipedia article MMORGS (massively multi-player online role-playing games) that...

July 2005

July 02, 2005

Unproven dogmas: Technological innovation and the benefits of free markets

An article in the New Scientist reports on physicist Jonathan Huebner's rather counterintuitive claim that...