Spring in New York. All hail winter!
Spring in New York City. A dream land finally come. As the days get longer (Praise Jesus!) and the light becomes warm again, pushing out the cold depressing veneer that winter brings every year, the...
View ArticleThis fiscal cliff bullshit is nothing but, eh, bullshit
Take a moment and consider the conditions of what passes as “news” in our current setup. Television, struggling newspapers, radio, all competing with the blogging internet start ups and a rapidly...
View ArticleVerizon moves to turn the internet into 250 channels of crap
Alternet’s Timothy Karr is reporting that the lovely corporate lawyers at Verizon have filed a claim in federal court that they’d like to say “Go fuck yourself” to the FCC’s open internet rules and...
View ArticleW3C and the future of your web browser
Ah the internet. How many ways can I restrict thee? Let’s continue our attempt to put this cat back into it’s bag. The World Wide Web Consortium, an organization that keeps track of, recommends, and...
View ArticleConfessions of a gentrifier
I’ve lived near Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for nearly 12 years. In the late 1990s the corner of Franklin and Lincoln was a notorious corner; drug deals, gang fights, robberies, teenager...
View ArticleThe anarchist ethos
Some recent comments I’ve made on Dale Carrico’s blog has got me thinking about what exactly an “anarchist ethos” is. Anarchism, the historical and philosophical doctrine of grass roots revolutionary...
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