Privacy for privacy sake is a weak argument, and privacy advocates should abandon it.
Source: Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
Author Archives: trevorlee
Uniblab – Back to Work – YouTube
Why vinyl records survive in the digital age
Web in ‘downward plunge’, says its creator
Thirty years after he invented it, Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the web is not what it should be.
Programming Sucks
This is a really great essay which helps one understand what it’s like inside the mind of a programmer/sysadmin/etc.
Possibly one of the best articles I’ve ever read!!!
Source: Programming Sucks
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic….
Seven Square Miles
Snapshots from Google Earth, all rectangles of the same size and scale, approximately three and a half miles wide by two miles tall—showing seven square miles of the varied surface of our planet in each view
Source: Seven Square Miles
A Vision of Isolating Technology from 1906
Punch magazine’s vision of the smartphone zombie from 1906.
Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER.
Congress has never made a law saying, “Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects in their products,”— and the First Amendment wouldn’t allow such a law — but that hasn’t stopped corporations from conjuring one out of thin air, and then defending it as though it was a natural right they’d had all along.
Source: Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER.
Why nobody ever wins that car giveaway at the mall
We had a hunch that no one ever actually wins those mall car giveaways. But we had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went… or who would end up with our data.