StickWithANose

I’m off to the country to celebrate the 4th of July holiday! Here’s some really cool stuff to check out while I’m gone…
Entry Number One:
In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. [...]

Like financial innovation the idea of ISP innovation is ultimately destructive. Wired
There’s a complicated fight in D.C. right now over how the FCC classifies broadband services, so it can regain the power to impose some basic rules on the industry.
Free-market groups and the industry are banging the table, arguing against the consequences — saying that [...]

As with all new media that preceded it, there is a new wave of dire warnings that computer and internet technology is turning us all into shallow thinkers with the attention span of a shitzu puppy on speed. Cherry-picking psychological studies that, in their haste to be “scientific”, create an abstract context in which the [...]

If both parties pursue the same goals then what is the point of having two parties?
74 Democrats signed a joint letter to the FCC supporting internet throttling by Verizon, ATT and Comcast. Throttling lets carriers slow or block internet traffic. This is a clear attack on net neutrality.
Here is where you can do something about [...]

As someone who is not only working the adjunct chain-gang of contractual labor but is also supplementing his meager income with online teaching, I share both Ed’s resignation and contempt for the inevitable growth in online education at both the tertiary and secondary levels. The growth in online “education” maybe couched in the language of [...]

As a reformed libertarian, I am sympathetic to those who believe that the spirit of competition in the marketplace is the primary engine of innovation, however libertarianism is a belief system that is not well rooted in empirical reality.  From the canals of the early 19th century to the satellites making possible all of this [...]

I was not alone in condemning Google in 2006 for agreeing to censor search results in order to gain access to that long-time fetish of corporate America: the Chinese market. For a supposedly new kind of corporation bandying about the slogan “don’t be evil“, the agreement to censor search results cut to the core of [...]

When the old man that once confessed that he didn’t know the difference between a Mac and PC introduced the “Internet Freedom Act” into the Senate to kill the open web, it was met with dismissive laughter, but it is unwise to assume that the wide spread support for an open internet architecture will ensure [...]