Blogging History: Lavabit founder stops using email; Neal Stephenson's Orth Hugo speech; NY-NJ ferry cop harasses man for reading D&D book

One year ago

Lavabit founder has stopped using email: "If you knew what I know, you might not use it either": Levison's lawyer, Jesse Binnall, who is based in Northern Virginia — the court district where Levison needed representation — added that it's "ridiculous" that Levison has to so carefully parse what he says about the government inquiry. "In America, we're not supposed to have to worry about watching our words like this when we're talking to the press," Binnall said.

Five years ago

Stephenson's Orth-speak Hugo acceptance speech: Here's the Orth text of Neal Stephenson's acceptance speech for the Hugo Award for Anathem, snapped at the pre-award reception before we both discovered that our books had been beaten by Gaiman's kick-ass Graveyard Book.

Ten years ago

D&D book reader on ferry hassled by security morons: Thanks to the RNC, there are mandatory bag searches happening on the NJ-NY Ferry. This fellow first got hassled with a re-search for carrying The Player's Guide to Faerun a D&D book, and then the next day, security tried to confiscate his copy of Exalted: The Abyssals as 'inappropriate.'