In June 2009, a 24-year-old woman in Sweden ran for a seat on the European Parliament as part of the Pirate Party…and won: As you may have imagined, the Pirate Party’s goals concern reforming copyright laws, specifically allowing p2p networking and file sharing, and doing away with patent laws altogether. … As for the patents, [...]

Turns out the US has been going to hell in a handbasket for a while: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy [...]

Those people who know me and my usual stridence regarding any and all social issues also know that I’ve been almost conspicuously silent on Occupy Wall Street. Much as with the WikiLeaks debacle, I’ve felt like there was more nuance to the issue than most people were willing to engage in, and wanted to reserve [...]

Oh boy, has it really been three weeks since the last round-up? Turns out full-time work actually, uh, takes up your time. Anyway, I’ve tried to organize these thematically because I still posted a lot of links to Twitter and G+, and three weeks of links is, well, you get the idea. For those of [...]

Mike Jungbluth is a game developer who has worked on, among other things, Lord of the Rings: War in the North and Singularity. He also talks eloquently about the harrowing life of a game developer, never knowing how long your currect contract will hold out: “Is this how it’s always going to be? Is this [...]