Mastodon is the first attempt at a decentralized social network that actually feels like it has staying power

Is this thing on?

No, wait. A car. I bought a car

There’s been a steady drumbeat of horror stories out of America’s nuclear forces for a while now. Why? And what can be done to turn things around?

Video pinball tends to suck. But not on a tablet, it turns out

Here you go: a free, downloadable PDF copy of my NaNoWriMo 2013 novel, DAY OF THE KANGAROO MAN

You can try to get close, but in a huge country with hundreds of millions of people, there’s no way you can intercept every single possible threat to everyone everytime

WordPress suffers from a problem that many software products do: it expects its users to be someone they are not

You keep talking about drones. If you want to win, you should stop. Here is why

The Paint.NET web site runs ads designed to lead naïve users to download unrelated adware. This needs to stop

Too often communicators outsmart themselves by trying to anticipate what their readers are thinking, and then bending their message to fit the contours of those imagined thoughts. But doing this makes you appear weak

WASHINGTON — In a move hailed by gay rights and liberal activists as “unprecedented” and “historic,” President Barack Obama announced today that he personally believes that same-sex couples should be able to marry, but not enough to actually do anything about it.

A look back at this blog’s best posts of the year

It’s not hard to imagine a future where the desktop PC and its flat-rate data connection is relegated to a few small niches, with the rest of the market being ruled by mobile devices with metered billing plans. And if you’re running a cloud service, that’s a future that’s not buying what you’re selling.

A sad spectacle that says a lot about modern culture

In the end, Mubarak left Egypt without a fight. Muammar Gaddafi appears determined not to go down the same road

The crisis in Egypt ends peacefully, and a new era begins

Well, maybe not