One year ago today
Grow up, game journalism! Leigh Alexander on the perpetual adolescence of game culture—and a press corps only too willing to pander to it even as it makes a superficial show of fighting it.
Five years ago today
Photos of disassembled household appliances: A drop-dead gorgeous set of disassembled household appliances.
Ten years ago today
Beyond Fear: Required reading for Ashcroft’s America: In Beyond Fear, Schneier has utterly demystified the idea of security with a text aimed squarely at nontechnical individuals. He takes his legendary skill at applying common sense and lucidity to information-security problems and applies it to all the bogeymen of the post-9/11 world, and asks the vital question: What are we getting in exchange for the liberties that the Ashcroftian authorities have taken away from us in the name of security?