How to look as if you're doing your job

Rape victims were pressured to withdraw their allegations by a specialist Metropolitan police unit as officers tried to gerrymander their performance statistics, the report found.

Thanx to andrewducker

Courting

Bruce Schneier on The Court of Public Opinion

Formerly interesting

The continuing effort of Bob Woodward to expiate the one good thing he did. Or as Charles Pierce puts it,

I swear to Christ, listening to Woodward, I'm starting to believe Nixon was framed.

Thanx to Making Light.

The company Jonathan Swift named

The computerized future is being unkind to Yahoo!, so it is trying to bring back the past, specifically the part of it where everybody had to come in to the office. Jon Carroll demurs.

EMC

Txtng taken seriously

Thanx to Chronicle

Richard E. Geis (1927-2013)

I discovered fanzine fandom in the early '70s, and one of the first fan writers I noticed was Dick Geis. He wrote well, including about his sexual practices, desires, and hangups, and he had a rare talent for stirring up controversy and fannish war, which he may have enjoyed as much as sex. One thing that encouraged my own fanwriting career was the awareness of what he was getting away with. When I did a zine, he was most encouraging, though he said I was too nice and should be stirring up more trouble. A lot of other people appreciated him (Wikipedia list of his fannish accomplishments).

ETA: Andy Porter remembers.