It's Not Militarization, It's Piraticization 25 Aug 2013 | 12:45 am

Radley Balko's book Rise of the Warrior Cop outlines how, in only a few decades, the Fourth Amendment's been gutted, and the military-industrial complex has expanded into the criminal justice system. ...

Dave Winer Should Read This 24 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am

A quantitative review of gender differences in personality involving more than 23,000 participants in 26 cultures indicated that women are more sensitive, considerate, and humble than men, which is ar...

Open Source Is Not A Zero-Sum Game 23 Aug 2013 | 06:08 am

TLDR: srsly, Ember, STFU and ship 1.0 already. I've done a small amount of work in Ember, I wrote the biggest and best book on Ember which currently exists, and I have a kind of grudging respect for E...

Conspiracies Don't Have To Be Evil 21 Aug 2013 | 07:25 am

For our latest mission, over 7,000 people pressed play simultaneously and listened to an mp3 file filled with ridiculous instructions at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. Participants were instructed ...

The Innovation Of Loneliness: An Excellent Short Film 16 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am

Book Sale Countdown (And Secret Project Prelude?) 9 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm

I'm not only doing my current book sale just to pay the bills and buy cool stuff. In a sense, everyone who does any kind of work is either looking to pay the bills, buy cool stuff, and/or make cool st...

My Simple Pricing Strategy For Information Products, And Why It Works 9 Aug 2013 | 04:07 am

I make videos and ebooks, and sell them on my blog. People like Patrick McKenzie and Amy Hoy constantly reiterate the advice that you should raise your prices and charge more than you think. So I took...

Book Sale! 8 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm

Many of my books and videos are now on sale. I'm going to keep this sale going for a full week. Rails As She Is Spoke: was $37, is $23 Heretical Guide To Ember.js: was $47, is $19 Unfuck A Monorail...

More Praise For My Ember Book 6 Aug 2013 | 11:18 pm

Got this email the other day: Hi Giles, I just wanted to say thanks for writing your ember book. I didn't code for years but I learned Ruby on Rails a couple of years ago and now co-run a reasonably...

Lies And Propaganda 4 Aug 2013 | 10:17 am

Lies: Propaganda: via boingboing, which also has this