This Day in Blogging History: Grow up, game journalism! Disassembled household appliances (knolled); Beyond Fear in John Ashcroft's America

One year ago today

Grow up, game journalism! Leigh Alexander on the perpetual adolescence of game culture—and a press corps only too willing to pander to it even as it makes a superficial show of fighting it.

Five years ago today

Photos of disassembled household appliances: A drop-dead gorgeous set of disassembled household appliances.

Ten years ago today

Beyond Fear: Required reading for Ashcroft's America: In Beyond Fear, Schneier has utterly demystified the idea of security with a text aimed squarely at nontechnical individuals. He takes his legendary skill at applying common sense and lucidity to information-security problems and applies it to all the bogeymen of the post-9/11 world, and asks the vital question: What are we getting in exchange for the liberties that the Ashcroftian authorities have taken away from us in the name of security?