According to sci-fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That's how I feel about American pizza delivery. It's all about an obsession with convenience bordering on the quantum, and it's what makes America the best country in the world.
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Seeing Sartorially
A short film about the eye behind The Sartorialist shows how the web, like the printing press and photography before it, unleashes disruptive beauty. Video after the jump.
Read More »The Mac App Store Is Open
Cupertino opens up the north forty for farming as app-culture's Green Revolution continues apace.
Read More »Leviathan 2.0
The evolutionary ebb and flow of freedom, liberty, and the collective continues on the Web, as it has throughout the history of the public sphere.
Read More »Extraordinary Rendition: Assange & Extradition Chic
Newsweek gives Julian Assange's "mansion arrest" the Martha Stewart treatment.
Read More »This Snowmaker Packed a Punch
As this image from the GOES-13 satellite shows, the snow that hit the Eastern Seaboard was delivered by a formidable storm. Picture after the jump.
Read More »The Tangled Web of Net Neutrality
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 »The Leaks of the House of Usher
"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 »Wikileaks, Nirvana, and the Net of Indra
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 2010, the EFF leveled up
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.
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