2012 is the year that Europe shuts down its proto-Internets. First, the BBC announced that teletex was getting the axe and today France is shutting down the Minitel x.25 network. These technologies, both started in the late 1970s, were ahead of their times and, in many ways, may still be.
American birthright citizenship does not derive from a “misinterpretation” of the 14th amendment. It is, instead, an American legal principle with a nearly unbroken tradition dating to the earliest days of republic.
A qualitative study using Social Network Analysis to investigate the social relations and the political economy of Network Neutrality.
There’s nothing quite as irritating as seeing this country fight battles our parents fought when they were our age and seeing us poorer in the present. Whenever the casket is nailed shut on a leader of that era there’s an orgy of historical revisionism, and we become poorer still.
We should thank the million foreigners who took to the streets on May 1st: they remember what we’ve forgotten. On … More Foreigners Teach Americans US History
Dear Friends, I don’t usually forward jokes or campaigns or calls to action and the like. So this is an … More Fahrenheit 9/11 Opens 6/25
Don’t even think of asking “Who is Bert the Turtle?” He’s a cultural icon. […you philistine!] Bert the Trutle Redux, … More Bert the Turtle is Back!
There has been considerable discussion on Kuro5hin.org recently surrounding media bias, propaganda and advertising. But what is propaganda and how … More PRO·PA·GAN·DA: a primer for identification