music The Civil Wars cancel upcoming tour dates due to much tinier version of Civil War Jamie Frevele
facebook Facebook makes 'Boogaloo' groups advocating US civil war harder to find, after arrest of participants plotting violence Xeni Jardin
Gadgets This CyberSaber puts a galaxy far, far away right into your hand for under $100 Boing Boing's Shop
grifters George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's mother for $100M in order to promote a movie Thom Dunn
class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow
Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow
happy mutants SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects Cory Doctorow
eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow
scholarship Costa Rica abolished its army in 1949 and thereafter enjoyed the best per-capita GDP growth in the region Cory Doctorow
futility closet One of the worst scientific feuds in history arose between two paleontologists in the 1870s Futility Closet
History History's solutions to runaway inequality: warfare, revolution, state collapse and plague Cory Doctorow
