Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their id
We’re now three months in, and the social media-based “consumer revolt” against the “progressive agenda” of the gaming press, known as Gamergate, shows no signs of abating. I’ve gotten to know a lot o
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Feminist Critics of Video Games Facing Threats in ‘GamerGate’ Campaign Threats against Anita Sarkeesian have shined a spotlight on a harassment campaign against female game developers and critics. Cre
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To Siri, With Love Credit... Louie Chin Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal
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Trouble at the Koolaid Point October 7, 2014 [Note: I didn't want to have to write this. But here it is. I'm not linking it to the blog, and it won't likely stay up long *(*Update Oct. 8** I'll be tak
Swift was announced 3 months ago to the day. For many of us, it was among the most shocking and exciting events in our professional lives. In these intervening months, it’s safe to say our collective
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This is a column about Katie Ledecky. It has a simple thesis. The thesis is that Katie Ledecky kicks ass. The thesis is a gasoline fireball from which Katie Ledecky is walking away in slow motion, too
As excitement of Apple’s new product announcements dominate today’s press coverage , and the memory of the celebrity iCloud hacks fade to obscurity (already seemingly long forgotten), completely un-re
A zipping comes across the sky. A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia. A white vehicle appears above the trees, a tiny plane a bit bigger than a
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You are bad at giving technical interviews. Yes, you. You’re looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company. Without changing anything about you
As Gaming Editor here, I get to play a lot of video games. I love the gaming medium; I think it’s got the potential to define the 21st century as much as film defined the 20th. I also get to experience the gaming community and industry, which can be a wonderful place. There are a lot of genuinely…
T he system was, apparently, nail-bitingly tense and casino-level frustrating: to buy Kate Bush tickets, one had to choose a particular date at a particular price point. While the computer calculated
Though he only writes a major story every year or two, for the last decade and a half John Siracusa has built a reputation as one of Apple’s most influential critics. When he does publish a piece, it’
~ It’s a Saturday and you decide to finally hang some extra shelves in your closet so that your stuff isn’t everywhere all the time. This means a dreaded weekend visit to Home Depot, but you muster as much will as you can and get in your car. An hour later, you’re shuffling around the endless metal…
The hermit set out of camp at midnight, carrying his backpack and his bag of break-in tools, and threaded through the forest, rock to root to rock, every step memorized. Not a boot print left behind.
Stewart is hungry. He's munching on potatoes smothered in chicken fat drippings, sitting by a long metal table that once served as a gurney in the morgue at the Treasure Island Naval Base. It's a prom
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Update 5:12 PM (CST): Global edit, Hatchette->Hachette. Because apparently I thought the publisher was actually named after an axe. Updated 5:18 PM (CST), 11 August: Someone popular linked to this and
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Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boi
SCROLL DOWN T he message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1
Bill (not his real name, and I’ve fuzzed some details to protect his identity) is a software engineer on the East Coast, who, at the time (between 2011 and 2014) of this story, had recently turned 30 and wanted to see if he could enter a higher weight class on the job market. In order to best assess…
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER The information in this book is not ground-breaking, but it is time-sensitive. If left unattended, these matters will only increase in scale. It is up to each of us to stay educated
Hey all, I’m Jason Stoddard, the co-founder (with Mike Moffat) of Schiit Audio. You may have seen some of my posts on Head-fi. But you haven’t heard the full story of Schiit…why we started the company
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