techsploitation

2008

07.02 / My Last Column
06.20 / Three Myths About the Internet that Refuse to Die
06.05 / Using Scifi to Change the World
05.22 / How Do We Fight Corporate Control of the Internet?
05.15 / Is the Creative Internet Dead?
05.07 / Who’s Afraid of Grand Theft Auto?
04.30 / User-Generated Censorship
04.23 / Writing Online: The Key to Literary Immortality
04.16 / Does the Microsoft-Yahoo! Merger Threaten Google?
04.08 / Pregnant Men
04.03 / The Queen’s English Is Dead
03.25 / The Color Wars on Twitter
03.19 / Spitzer Did Nothing Wrong
03.12 / Online Protests Grow Up
02.27 / The Bush Administration’s War On Science
02.19 / You Cannot Afford Mars
02.12 / Three Reasons To Hate Facebook
02.06 / The Fragility of the Information Age
01.29 / A Polite Message from the Surveillance State
01.22 / Why We Shouldn’t Fear Cloned Meat
01.17 / What Happens When Blogs Go Mainstream?
01.08 / A New Version of Moore’s Law
01.03 / Technology In Wartime

2007

12.27 / A Story of International Intrigue
12.19 / Humans Are Much Smarter than Dogs
12.12 / Why Buying a Nintendo Wii Is Worth It
12.05 / Comcast’s War On Filesharing
11.29 / Are Home Genome Tests a Step Away from Eugenics?
11.22 / Access Denied: Mapping Global Censorship
11.13 / Who To Vote For When the Top Candidate Stinks
11.05 / Carbon Indulgences
11.01 / Consumer Biotech
10.23 / When Science Attacks!
10.16 / Moaning Lisa: A Blow-Up Doll, Upgraded
10.10 / Always Away on IM
10.02 / Modern Bionic Woman, Retrograde Feminism
09.26 / To See Or Not See Violence
09.18 / The Death of “Green” Satellites
09.12 / The Secret Messages NASA Sent to Aliens
09.05 / Anti-Authoritarian Cities
08.28 / Mouse Politics: To Kill Or Not?
08.20 / The Trouble With Anonymity On the Web
08.16 / Should Archives Go Paperless?
08.07 / Kids Safer Online Than Ever Before
08.01 / Science Uncovers What Literary Critics Have Always Known: Scary Stories Are Fun
07.25 / Images of the Dead Future
07.18 / iPhone Politics
07.11 / Transformers is More Than Just a Truck Commercial
07.04 / Steampunk — An Old Aesthetic for New Technology
06.27 / The Future of Paper Without Journalism
06.20 / The Real Torrent Spies — Megacorp Columbia Forces Frightening Legal Precedent
06.13 / Google My Bedroom with Privacy-Invading “Street View”
06.06 / Wikipedia Activism
05.30 / Green Libertarianism — New Reformist Movement?
05.23 / 09 F9 — A Simple Way to Stand Up Against the Latest Assault on Digital Liberty
05.16 / Heroes: comic Book Edge and Political Bite
05.09 / Myth of the Universal Digital Library
05.02 / Stop Getting Things Done — The Dark Side of Productivity
04.25 / How to Control My Body — Abortion and the End of Menstruation
04.18 / The Trouble with Twitter
04.11 / Free Wifi and Digital Racial Profiling
04.04 / Smoking Yahoo’s Pipes
03.28 / Vote Mac?
03.21 / Exploiting the Code
03.14 / Web Trenz!
03.07 / Data Crash 2027
02.28 / Men Are Not Men
02.21 / Lisa Nowak, Astronaut
02.14 / Peeing By Design
02.07 / The Self-Appointed Censors of GoDaddy
01.31 / Bias on eBay
01.24 / The Anti-Christian Mythology of Phillip Pullman
01.17 / The Stop Online Expression Act
01.10 / Science Fiction Made Me Do It

2006

12.27 / New Year’s Resolutions for Geeks
12.20 / Wikipedia vs. Women
12.13 / The Meaning of Spam
12.06 / This is Not Progress
11.29 / Crap of the Future
11.22 / Happiness Science
11.15 / Microsoft Linux
11.08 / Why Sex Sucks
11.01 / Television is History
10.25 / Welcome to the C.S.A.
10.18 / GooTube is Dead
10.11 / Geowankers Anonymous
10.04 / Small Pieces Unjoined
09.27 / Dotster’s Computer Illiteracy Campaign
09.20 / Ahoy, Chumby!
09.13 / Death by Satire
09.06 / Weaponized Data
08.30 / You’ve Been Pwned
08.23 / Snakes in Vain
08.16 / Fun With the AOL Data Leak
08.09 / How Blog Software Threatens Free Speech
08.02 / The Nice Rats of Science Journalism
07.26 / Movie Monsters and Politics
07.19 / Harry Potter and the Microconspiracy of Doom
07.12 / Trucks, Tubes and Verizon’s Scary New Plan
07.05 / Does Updike’s Stance on E-books Make Him Obsolete?
06.28 / Nevermind Brookers — Here’s the Moldavian Pop Song Heard Around the World
06.21 / Personal Surveillance Etiquette
06.14 / Laptops for Dolphins
06.07 / Feminists Prefer Genetic Engineering
05.31 / Crisis on Infinite Earths, or the Antiwar Comics Surge
05.24 / Why Do So Few Americans Care that the NSA is Listening to their Phone Calls?
05.17 / Porn 2.0
05.10 / Without Net Neturality, the Web we Love is Endangered
05.03 / Going Low Tech in Manhattan
04.26 / The Great Email Debate — Should the Sender Pay to Eliminate Spam?
04.19 / The New ‘Mad’ Scientists Look at How Videogames Destroy Our Minds
04.12 / The Down Side of Slashdot — Sexist or Not?
04.05 / Arbitrary Anachronism — Swordfights and Smartphones at the SCA
03.29 / Feeling Everybody Up — MoodMapper charts the feelings of the masses online
03.22 / Spy on Yourself with Root Networks
03.15 / Roomba Cockfight!
03.08 / Remembering Octavia Butler
03.01 / Attention! New study shows attention overload leads to bad decisions
02.22 / China Syndrome — search engine censorship
02.15 / Interbreeders — early Homo Sapiens bred with other species after all
02.08 / Son of Dot-Com — Web 2.0, Oh No!
02.01 / Kings of Creepy — Why did Microsoft give search information the government?
01.25 / Veronica Mars — TV for social justice geeks
01.18 / JT Leroy vs. Woo-suk Hwang
01.11 / Like a Girl — new Pew Internet Life study shows disturbing gender bias
01.04 / Web Censorship for Dummies — CP80’s bizarre plan to block porn online

2005

12.28 / Europe Calling — In the EU, datamining replaces wiretaps
12.21 / Best. Monster. Ever. King Kong’s racial morality tale
12.14 / Maui Drowning? Eco-tourism and Hawaiian politics
12.07 / Music Companies Get Mean — the Sony “protected CD” debacle
11.30 / Man’s Place — Science proves male domination leads to an extinction vortex
11.23 / Marijuana is Good for You
11.16 / Won’t Somebody Think of the Pings?
11.09 / Hacking the Subway, Freeing the Maps
11.02 / Why Mice Sing
10.26 / Patents Kill
10.19 / Strike Blog
10.12 / Meme War
10.05 / A Bugged Game
09.28 / The Glamorous Disease
09.21 / Evolved Again
09.14 / Fanactivism
09.07 / Connect the Dots
08.31 / Can’t Kill P2P
08.24 / Invisible Earth
08.17 / What is Evil?
08.10 / Shut Up, Mike Lynn
08.03 / Machinima
07.27 / Cyber Heroes!
07.20 / Name Calling
07.13 / Top Genome
07.06 / Hot for Data
06.29 / No Roads for You
06.22 / On File
06.15 / Ika Resuraa
06.08 / Environmental Upgrade
06.01 / Everybody Loves Vader
05.25 / Fantasies of E3
05.18 / Burn Your License
05.11 / Merit Badge
05.04 / Jihad! Jihad!
04.27 / Software Purity
04.20 / Free the Cameras
04.13 / Open Maps
04.06 / Court Camp
03.30 / Mother’s Little Sniffer
03.23 / Aggregate! Iterate! Reciprocate!
03.15 / Help Tech — Jail the Poor
03.09 / B-List Blogs
03.02 / Larry’s Taste
02.23 / Who Moved My Data?
02.16 / Pig-Based Technologies
02.09 / Henry Darger’s Internet
02.02 / Cultural Emergency
01.19 / Sad Mac
01.12 / Wear It, Bitch
01.05 / Destroy All Planets

2004

2003

2002

12.25 / WiFi Peril
12.18 / I Was Wrong
12.11 / Social Experiments
12.04 / Harry Potter Gets Laid
11.27 / Totalitarian Information Awareness
11.20 / Mother Cyborg
11.13 / Right-Wing Darwinism
11.06 / The Lego Mystique
10.30 / The Usual Suspects
10.23 / The Thousand-Dollar Genome
10.16 / Laugh While You Can: The IgNobels
10.09 / Assimilated by LiveJournal!
09.25 / Galileo’s Ghost
09.18 / Public Domain
09.11 / The Ultimate Boolean
09.04 / Blocklisted
08.28 / Fear of Necco
08.21 / Alien Fuckfest
08.14 / Dark Net
08.07 / Abnormal Technology
07.31 / Women and Men
07.24 / Feeling TIPSy?
07.17 / Geek Zoo@MIT
07.10 / Reputation System
07.03 / Dot-com Sentimentality
06.26 / What is Brain?
06.19 / A New Hope, or Sony SUX
06.12 / Robots Who Cry
06.05 / Fanfic of the Damned
05.29 / Empire of Verisign
05.22 / Revenge of the Wonks
05.15 / Digital murder
05.08 / Biohazards: Clones and Robotrats
05.01 / Fascists
04.24 / Are you being logged?
04.17 / No futurism
04.10 / Learning from AOL
04.03 / JavaOne proves the days of tech swag are gone
03.27 / grep, awk, ps
03.20 / New, new wave
03.13 / Human Copyrights
03.06 / I Hate Everything
02.27 / Blog anxiety
02.20 / The Protein and Marilyn
02.13 / A Most Unusual Cyberscam
02.06 / Genome Hackers
01.30 / Robots Are Everywhere
01.23 / Plug and Play People
01.16 / The Erotic Web Offensive
01.09 / Science Voyeur
01.02 / geeks.ca

2001

12.26 / Surveillance Superstars!
12.19 / Welcome to the Machine, or Meet the Xbox
12.12 / Sex Studies at MIT
12.05 / Nymity Rules
11.28 / State of Emergency
11.21 / Network Admin Blues
11.14 / Linux Apocalypse
11.07 / Personal to anyone
10.31 / One more terrorist
10.24 / Censorship can be fun
10.17 / Night on the town
10.10 / What’s left to do
10.03 / Every click a lie
09.26 / Utopia — Talking with Ursula Le Guin
09.19 / There is no innocence
09.12 / Summer vacation
09.05 / Dot-sex — Such a deal!
08.29 / Talk to me
08.22 / Secrets of Ms. Gorf
08.15 / Geek underworld
08.08 / Biopunk
08.01 / Book Threat: On the Sklyarov case
07.25 / High Voltage
07.18 / Cult of Jamie
07.11 / Sharing the Data
07.04 / That’s So 1998!
06.27 / Out of the Past
06.20 / It’s Our Party
06.13 / Carnage Update
06.06 / Scandalous Code: Thoughts on the Apache Hack
05.30 / The Other Economy: Talking with Barbara Ehrenreich
05.23 / Hackers, R.I.P.
05.16 / Intelligent Life?
05.09 / Free Porn
05.02 / Yahoo’s Secret War
04.25 / Manifest Jeffstiny
04.18 / co.uk
04.11 / Craig’s dead, baby
04.04 / Kill your Internet
03.28 / The other Valley
03.21 / Semiotic whatever
03.14 / They stole my brain
03.07 / The good Doctor
02.28 / Move “zig”!
02.21 / All the alien babies
02.14 / Orgasm implants
02.07 / Core memory
01.31 / My darling, my Darwin
01.24 / Revolution 99999
01.17 / The final killer app
01.10 / M
01.03 / D&D

2000

12.27 / What geeks want
12.20 / Coders unite!
12.13 / Retire?
12.06 / Sick out
11.29 / Sock puppeting
11.22 / Thanks for nothing
11.15 / Sex torture
11.08 / Logan runs again
11.01 / Mad doctors
10.25 / Live work
10.18 / Video retro
10.11 / My religion
10.04 / Fire your boss!
09.20 / Information suicide
09.13 / Youth slaves
09.06 / Alone online
08.30 / E-mail envy
08.23 / Godzilla 2000 versus Windows 2000
08.16 / Icons from another dimension!
08.09 / Your life as anime
08.02 / Job go boom: How to tell when your .com is dying
07.19 / Of computers and cars
07.12 / Celluphony
07.05 / Extreme personalization
06.28 / Bedtime for Bobo
06.21 / Die, dot-com, die!: Fuckedcompany.com plays the game of life
06.14 / Craigslust: Partying with the .org set
06.07 / Privacy fetish: Who cares if you can find out everything about me?
05.31 / Her name is Rio: Why I suck at MP3 downloads
05.24 / Decode these books
05.17 / Penance at the Webbys with Richard Stallman
05.10 / Fuck the FDA
05.03 / Trek memories
04.26 / Are you bored? Internet debris piles up
04.19 / Too much freedom
04.12 / Wealth! Poverty! Baths!
04.05 / Women like me exist
03.29 / The legend of BSD
03.22 / Beyond the Valley of Silicon
03.16 / Sysadmin Lust: Noncom and Nostalgia for E-mail
03.09 / Tormenting AskJeeves.com: dots entertainment
03.02 / Are You a Target?: Gen X invents Gen Y
02.24 / It’s Job Season! Deluge forces tough choices
02.17 / Vaporware: In today’s metastasizing IPO market, vaporware is everywhere
02.10 / Cthulhu and You: Deep inside a geek’s mind
02.03 / Linux Capitalist Sluts: What happens when open source sells out
01.27 / Media Hoards: Yet another global empire to subjugate you
01.13 / Job Gone: A Silicon Valley fairy tale
01.06 / Porn Again: A job for the twenty-first century

1999