about the US NSA wiretapping stuff, but last week Boing Boing published a great excerpt of a William Gibson interview in which he commented on the story: William Gibson on NSA wiretapping. Pithy quote: “…there aren’t many people really shocked by this. Our popular culture, our dirt-ball street culture teaches us from childhood that the CIA is listening to *all* of our telephone calls and reading *all* of our email anyway.”
On a rainy Sunday last weekend
we went to the bookstore to browse around for new reading material and I came across Ruth Reichl’s new anthology, History in a Glass
Derek Powazek in A List Apart:
Calling All Designers: Learn to Write! I only partially agree with him, but the sentiment is right on the money. For me, everyone in the process should have something intelligent to say about everyone else’s area of expertise.
Salon today is running
an extended excerpt of the new book, “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush,” by Eric Boehlert. It’s a scathing critique of the media’s handling of the run up to the Iraq war. Well worth a read, particularly the parts about Judith Miller at the NYTimes.
I don’t use TypePad
or Livejournal, and apparently I don’t read many sites using either service because I didn’t notice that there was a huge outage for both of them a day or so ago. Six Apart, the company who runs those services, said simply that it was the victim of a massive DDoS attack. Jason Levine has done a little digging, though, and he found that underneath it all there’s a really interesting story involving an anti-spam operation (which uses questionable tactics), spammers trying to fight back, and what seems to have been a really bad decision: The dishonor of Blue Security.
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