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Remembering the influence of a teacher, critic, and thinker who brought the Web alive with ideas. Read More »

After fifteen years I've finally found the perfect writer's machine in the new 11.6-inch MacBook Air. It fuses together both the best software and hardware of which a writer could ever dream, while boasting all of the slender and effortless portability of a composition journal. It is a writer's terminal in the purest sense: with its excellent battery life, ephemeral weight, satisfying keyboard and instant-on capabilities, the new MacBook Air is perfectly suited to be the nexus into the inner chaos of my own thoughts, feelings, hang-ups, pretensions and emotions as a blank page. So why isn't writing any easier? Read More »

Perspectives on the FCC's recent net neutrality ruling leave us thinking about the the rise of the app and the enclosure of the commons. Read More »

"If the Internet was walking around in public, it would look and act a lot like Julian Assange. " Bruce Sterling's take on Wikileaks, an affair worthy of Edgar Allan Poe. Read More »

In a post at the Atlantic today, Jaron Lanier offers to reframe the Wikileaks question. But what he does looks much more like the infamous mission statement of the National Review: to stand athwart history yelling “stop!” Read More »

In Boston, clouds and swirling snow deprived us of the sight of a blood-red lunar eclipse on the eve of solstice. The two phenomena have nothing to do with one another astronomically; but as a member of a species drawn to pattern like moths to lamplight, I felt the urge to seek an open patch in the clouds, even at three o'clock in the morning—to no avail. Read More »

Are you doing the Boston Typewriter? Perhaps we're lucky that when it comes to marketing, viral video has its limits. Read More »

In 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation fought copyright monopolies, walled-garden mobile phone formats, and privacy invasion in the social media, helping keep the Internet safe—even for 8-bit nostalgia. Video after the jump. Read More »

Minecraft isn't just PC gamings' trendiest new box of 8-bit building blocks. It's also a solipsist's god sim... with all of the loneliness and pathos that implies. Read More »

With Julian Assange now free on bail in England, we should ask what the plight of his forsaken source has to say about the Wikileaks moment. Read More »