Brick O'Lore

...plus c'est la même chose.

Interesting article - I had always assumed they were a more expensive option. Professor @LisaServon explains why check cashers and payda...

The end of civilization will be captured in a selfie. https://t.co/XtORAa7VDr — LNVF (@LoneNutVolFan) October 1, 2015 And he's ref...

Black Lives Matter protesters to block finish line at the Twin Cities Marathon . I don't think this will help bring support to their c...

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose . Via @msuster

One review of the data suggests that 2012 was a really bad year and not (in statistical terms) a trend . Mass shootings are rare and rando...

Twitter has been hot with a) people tweeting about getting new AR-15 rifles for Christmas and b) those who are less than pleased with the g...

I have never felt the desire to become a hipster . And, almost by definition, would a true hipster allow the hipster label to be applied?

The SCOTUS decision on Obamacare has everyone's attention, so we've forgotten for the moment what is going on in Europe . It remin...

More people have mobile phones than electricity or drinking water . I would assume part of the reason is it is harder to run big pipes than ...

Bad Idea Edition... We've had  samurai sword umbrellas and ENDO worries that it won't be long until a swat team is called because...

StudioXNYC Foursquare rep says, "Privacy is a modern invention," as if that ends the debate on ethics. Someone in audience y...

Jamming mobile phones is bad enough , but disrupting speech !?!? Scary! ExtremeTech link via Slashdot.org

Scary stuff. Cory Doctorow: Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing.   He makes the argument that SOPA and the like ...

It is a shame that the differences between the police and the army are becoming non-existent. Their roles are supposed to be different, so o...

So I was doing a preview of the post about the election and what should appear in the ad on the sidebar? Is it a sign? I don't own a wo...

I like being late to the game... it saves me the effort of writing an opinion and I can link to someone who said it better than I could have...

My buddy, Slim, always likes to be the ray of sunshine on otherwise gray days... The Keynesian School of Economics Leads to Violence : The ...

Continuing on today's theme of watching, I found this scary infograph about the data a phone company collected about a customer in Germa...

Clive Thompson talks about sousveillance : "Sousveillance is the monitoring of events not by those above (surveiller in French) but b...