Davecat with his mistress, Elena (left) and wife Sidore (right). (Renato Velarde) Davecat met his future wife, Sidore Kuroneko at a goth club in 2000, so the story goes. The less romantic but perhaps more true version is that he saved up for a year and a half to buy her online. She cost about…

Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves. For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA…

Dass der Ehering etwas zu locker an ihrem Finger sitzt, zeigt, wie sehr die letzten Jahre an ihr gezehrt haben. Die Jahre, seit sie Kinder hat. Nächte ohne Schlaf, die Überforderung, Angst und die zwei Kinder, die sie sich anders vorgestellt hatte. Nicht so anstrengend, nicht so schwierig. Und die…

Der Drahtseilakt Das Mädchen sitzt auf der Schultoilette und betet. Sie ist sich nicht ganz sicher, ob das Gebet irgendwo ankommt, aber in diesem Moment hilft es ihr einfach zu beten. Bitte, mach, dass ich die Prüfung bestehe. Dann entriegelt sie die Tür und geht nach einem letzten Blick in den…

I vividly remember the Facebook post. It was my friend’s 5-year-old daughter “Kate,” (a pseudonym) standing outside of her house in a bright yellow bikini, the street address clearly visible behind her on the front door. A caption read “Leaving for our annual Labor Day weekend at the beach,” and…

Biz & IT Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” For Ars, three crackers have at 16,000+ hashed passcodes—with 90 percent success. Dan Goodin – May 27, 2013 8:00 pm | 493 Thanks to the XKCD comic, every password cracking word list in the world probably has…

It is one of the most common components of emergency medicine: an intravenous bag of sterile saltwater. Luckily for anyone who has ever needed an IV bag to replenish lost fluids or to receive medication, it is also one of the least expensive. The average manufacturer’s price, according to government…

A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to take a trip from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. Every year, my family goes on a one-week pilgrimage, where we put our work on hold and spend time visiting temples, praying, and spending time with family and friends. To my Jewish friends, I often…

Published in XATO · 8 min read · Aug 19, 2013 -- The message here is that US courts can force a business to subvert their own security measures and lie to their customers, deliberately giving them a f

Joshua Tree moon / Ellen Huerta/ Jan 1 2013 Thoughts on trading in pride and security for authenticity 10 min read· Aug 16, 2013 -- ‘It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are.’ — e.e. cummings About 6 months ago, I decided to quit my very good job at Google to explore a different way to…

Simple steps to lead a simple and content life. Published inBe Yourself · 4 min read· Jun 5, 2013 -- 7. Stop checking email in the morning. Seriously cut that garbage out. Your brain actually functions differently when you first wake up, spending that time doing the busy work of email is a terrible…

A Shiny Content Farm is Still a Content Farm 4 min read· Jul 8, 2013 -- There’s a lot of buzz around Medium right now. It’s shiny and incredibly easy to use! Great sharing features mean increased social media buzz! Founded by some of the guys who made Twitter so of course it’ll be awesome! And there…

There are plenty of ways to achieve a higher state of consciousness. Most of them involve ingesting some kind of psychoactive substance, or getting in a white tank filled with water, or sitting in fro

An einem Februarmorgen brach das Unheil in die Welt des kleinen Dorfes Menznau: Ein Mann schoss um sich, tötete, verletzte. Innert Minuten war Menznau weltbekannt. Vier Tischgespräche, in den Monaten nach dem Abzug der Kameras. Text Erwin Koch Illustration Elisabeth Moch Dass das bei uns geschieht.…

Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit. Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the…

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“Hello Mr Welch. Visa Card Services here.” That was the line with which my nightmare started one Sunday morning, hungover, sitting on the sofa trying to piece together the night before. The landline rang. I was surprised because I’d only given the number to about three people. The person on the…

12. Juli 2013Aus Heft 28/2013Leben und Gesellschaft Was wäre die Welt ohne Dixi-Klos? Auf Musikfestivals führt kein Weg an ihnen vorbei. Noch unangenehmer als sie zu benutzen ist nur eines: sie sauber zu machen. Unterwegs mit dem Reinigungstrupp bei »Rock im Park«. Auf dem Campingplatz wird Bier…

When xkcd creator Randall Munroe first posted a new installment of his webcomic titled "Time" on March 25, it looked deceptively simple: a picture of two black and white stick figures, a man and a wom

In June 2011, the biggest meme-generating forum on the Internet held elections. The community’s moderators had become overwhelmed with its runaway popularity. Reddit’s r/AdviceAnimals needed help. Featured Video They got it in the form of redditor gtw08, the eventual winner. Looking back, all the…

There’s a big problem in social media right now. Poke, a Facebook app, lets people send messages that self-destruct after a few seconds. It’s boring. A crucial and indispensable source of news and information, absolutely. But more often than not, it’s also tedious and predictable. Digital Diary One…

Ask your team to identify their biggest productivity killer and inevitably two issues will rise to the top of the list: managing their inboxes and their meeting schedules. I'll tackle the former in a future post. For now, I'd like to focus on increasing the value of meetings by sharing a practice…

Selomon, 28, Immigrant aus Eritrea, wurde in einem Camp im Sinai gefoltert. Wie die meisten Opfer in dieser Geschichte hat er Angst, sein Gesicht zu zeigen und seinen richtigen Namen zu nennen. Aber seine verstümmelten Hände können alle sehen. Al-Arissa-Checkpoint, Nordsinai, Ägypten: Ein Beduine…

All dressed in black and adorned with piercings, a small but growing community of goths is one manifestation of the new cultures and subcultures emerging in Kenya. By Rowan Emslie On the streets of Nairobi. Photograph by Matthias Kihr. Nairobi, Kenya: David Lith is a tattoo artist working out of…

(Welcome to the first edition of View Source, a weekly column in which Rex Sorgatz obsesses over the new ways we create, consume, and manipulate moving images.) The Case of the Trombone and the Mysterious Disappearing Camera Earlier this year, a video of an older gentleman playing trombone became an…

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Du stellst ihm keine Fragen. Du sprichst ihn nicht an, wenn er dich nicht anspricht", sagt Kim Chol Ung. "Sollten wir ihm zufällig begegnen, so etwas kann passieren, dann verbeuge dich tief vor ihm. So tief, dass Rücken und Beine im rechten Winkel zueinander stehen. Rede ihn mit ›Eure Exzellenz‹ an.…

Die Schuld erwischt sie nachts, wenn die Frau schweißgebadet aus dem Schlaf hochschreckt. Sie wartet nachmittags, wenn die Frau vom Büro zum Bahnhof läuft, wo sie früher doch immer das Auto genommen hat. Wenn der Feierabend lockt, wenn die Vögel zwitschern und sie plötzlich denkt, wie schön das…

Photo: Noah Kalina/Noah Kalina I have 700 friends on Facebook, 36 of whom I consider exes. Not all are ex-boyfriends—in the eleven years that “boyfriend” has been a name for men in my life, I have referred to nine as “boyfriends.” The rest are men I dated casually, guys I dated disastrously,…

Back in 2006, I gave a talk at dConstruct called The Joy Of API. It basically involved me geeking out for 45 minutes about how much fun you could have with APIs. This was the era of the mashup—taking data from different sources and scrunching them together to make something new and interesting. It…

Member-only story As photos flood the Web and photo recognition technology becomes more widespread and precise, are we approaching an unsettling tipping point? 8 min read· Jul 9, 2013 -- One day you may wake up and there will be thousands of photos of you, which you didn’t know existed, available to…

5 min read· Jun 26, 2013 -- Time travel is always fun to think about. Who wouldn't want to go back in time to do things differently? You could make money with your knowledge of the future, put the moves on that girl you were too afraid to talk to, or murder your grandfather for no real reason. (Bear…