Narcoterrorism

Cold war

Thanx to XKCD

Comments

Newspaper stops running comments on its Web site because

Our comments are a raging cesspool filled with the worst that humanity has to offer and you all make us look bad by smearing your feculent mindpoops on our property, so do it somewhere else and we’ll pick the ones we like to highlight.

Scalzi approves.

Newspaper of record

In the proud tradition of Judith Miller, The New York Times is once again passing on fraudulent propaganda, this time about the San Bernardino shooters.

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

Surveillance, encryption, steganography

Round 1: the telegraph

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Aptitude required

Learn to code: It’s harder than you think.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Manipulating the world

Science is magick that works.

Thanx to Follow Me Here

Hooray!

Good things about 2015

Thanx to andrewducker

What I said on Facebook

* My spam folder contained an e-mail that claimed to be from Donald Trump. I flushed it unread because I was afraid it was genuine.

* Shkrelifreude

* Anyone who believes in Natural Laws with “ought” in them has a religion.

* It appears that J.J. Abrams improved Star Wars the same way he buggered up Star Trek: He made it an Abrams movie.