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2008

November

• How the Masters of the Universe got that way

• The next 6,500 days

• Election night with the master

• Holding my nose once again

October

• Universal Studios oversteps copyright law

• Security theater

• Universal healthcare v. universal healthcare insurance

• Obama administration media transparency? Don’t count on it

• Motivating the banks the simple way

• Why we hate Wall Street executives

• Step aside, we’re coming through

September

• Socialism almost comes to America

• Here comes welfare for the super-rich

• No financial Patriot Act

• Fool me once…

• Capitalism doesn’t scale

• Liability insurance for independent media

• DaVita closes another dialysis unit

• Spinewatch will change political coverage

• Remembering to remember

• Open source journalism: Watching magazine sausage being made

• Affidavit purported to outline RNC conspiracy plans

• Instant ubiquitous reporting changes everything

August

• The importance of habeas corpus

• I love the smell of fascism in the morning

• Wake up

• Joe Biden: Wrong on both the net and tech

• Full recovery; time for vacation

• A shaky recovery?

• Recovering from a train wreck

• Recovering from a train wreck

July

• Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress

• Study finds ESRD patients less likely to get cardiovascular medicine

• Fair use and the DMCA

• A tale of two papers

• They’re back….

• FISA revision bill passes US Senate

• Bush’s warrantless wiretaps whacked

• Has Boing Boing jumped the shark?

June

• Last ditch plans to derail FISA bill in US Senate

• The most important number on the planet: 350

• Elbow-leading health advocates

• Congress caves on US wiretap law

• Oh noes, White Lily is done

• White House Office of Administration immune from FOIA requests

• Online citizen journalism seen as threat

• Taking a sledgehammer to an ant

• Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner agree to censor net

• Nielsen on writing styles

• As journalism goes, so goes democracy

• Alton Kelley dead at 67

May

• Sound nirvana

• Dialyzing in the middle of Puget Sound

• Minnesota not ready for single-payer health coverage after all

• Merely a COG in Main Core

• Does Cisco help the Chinese censor dissent?

• FBI drops national security letters in face of lawsuits

• Conservatives support federal shield law

• Tech support as if it mattered

• Laptops can be searched at US border without cause

• Morality and metrics in dialysis

• Heparin contamination: motivated by greed

April

• Still seeking a publishing business model

• Atom feed deprecated

• Bush to expand domestic surveillance

• Confiscate the Northwest Airlines gates

• Apocalyptic banking system collapse

• Kerouac meets Tufte

• Comcast pulls more “scarce” bandwidth out of ass; corporate media fawns

• Searches for “abortion” on Popline blocked

• A simple fix for the mortgage crisis

• Deck chairs and bigger shovels

March

• Dialysis nightmares

• Comcast reverses policy, pledges to treat all packets equally

• Total Information Awareness: Back from the dead

• Bell Canada throws your packets away

• Organ waiting list is overstated by one third

• What happens when the dollar collapses?

• Making it in the long tail

• Rethinking the economics of home hemodialysis

• User experience tips from a software engineer

• Anonymous kidney donations in Boston

• Another trip to the hospital

• Network neutrality = common carriage

• Dialysis costs revealed

February

• To Twitter or not to Twitter

• PowerPoint zen