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? […]

Wikipedia is frequently snubbed for its anonymous, user-edited content. The argument is this: you don’t know who’s writing the articles you are reading, so you cannot trust them. This is offered in direct contrast to institutional sources like textbooks, academic journals, and proprietary encyclopedias.
What I find interesting about this discussion is the ommission of the […]

The other night we went up to the Haight to catch a movie at a worker-owned theater. Having arrived early, we pulled out the footbag.
A few different folks joined us and we had a good-sized circle when a passing hipster wanted in. He stayed for two or three serves, thanked us for the game, and […]

This post marks the end of the first unofficial jackvalentine.net hiatus and the beginning of my time in San Francisco. Here’s a rough breakdown of the past six weeks:

57% idle time in Chicago with excitement for the move at a stalemate with the tedium of last days; no energy to write
28% traveling through the midwest […]