Authoritarian assholes:
 

So I missed the debate and the Pilsen Interactive Media Project wrap-up, because I went over to Oakland for the opening night of Critical Resistance 10. I’m excited about the next two days of the conference, and I’ll make a more substantive post about it later.
Back in the city of fog, I hopped on my […]

The author of one of my favorite blogs asked me to do a guest post.
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Aternet posted an excellent article about the role of white privilege in the current presidential race. It can be hard for white folks to recognize privilege, precisely because we have it and consider it normal. The article does a good job of highlighting things we may have overlooked, for example:
White privilege is when you can claim that […]

McCain’s VP pick has been under fire recently for using her private Yahoo email account to conduct state business.
And while the rest of us were sitting around hoping for political backlash, Anonymous went out and did something about it. Remember them? That loose confederation of amateur hackers responsible for the attacks on Scientology earlier this year? […]

The Chicago Tribune reports that coffee roaster Intelligentsia will no longer be offering 20oz cups.
“Drinking our coffee is not like drinking jug wine,” said Intelligentsia Coffee founder and Chief Executive Doug Zell on Tuesday. “We’re focused on intensity of flavors and providing coffee in the way it tastes best. And it’s not in that size.”
I […]

It’s AMAZING.

The BBC reports that Anheuser-Busch has sold out to Belgium-based InBev.
Oh, Budweiser. You were too expensive, your fans were annoying, and your advertisements were so sexist–but I’ll be damned if you weren’t an American icon.
The irony tastes better than you ever did.

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