Macro Flame War

There are lots of Great Internet Debates- over operating systems, video game consoles, or politics.  This last week, a similar sort of name-calling verbal brawl broke out among prominent macro-economists.  But that exchange featured long posts and highly technical arguments.  To simplify it for you, I will summarize the debate as the flame war it [...]

A small step toward a much better world

The website Wikileaks is currently down.  They recently broke the story of the list of websites banned by the Australian government, and their bandwidth has been overloaded by peoples’ interest.
Wikileaks allows little people to get information indicting powerful organizations in to the view of the larger world.  They protect the anonymity of their sources, and [...]

Internet Culture becomes yet more Self-Referential

With this new meta-Youtube video by Weezer. The willingness of these ’stars’ to engage in what some would consider self-parody surprised me.
Chocolate Rain guy, I thought you were better than this! What happened to the message?

XKCD

I’ve been reading webcomics for a few years now- Penny Arcade, 8-bit theatre, ctrl-alt-delete.
But I think I just stumbled upon the greatest- xkcd.
The author has so many of the same thoughts I do, except he is way funnier and better at expressing them… and better at math too.