law Guy who preemptively shot his BBQing neighbors says that self-defense includes killing people who pose "imminent" danger, like Saddam and drone-victims Cory Doctorow
US supreme court Tomorrow the US Supreme Court will decide the fate of free and fair presidential elections Mark Frauenfelder
denialism A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial Cory Doctorow
Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow
politics Pat Buchanan on the Republican Party's historical opposition to free trade deals Cory Doctorow
movies Meet the scientific storytellers who can make the public afraid of anything—for a price Ethan Gilsdorf
timemachine Blogging History: Kyoto's 1.2kg pizzaburger; Damian Hirst wants £500K from teen who took pencils; Neighbor-shooting BBQer cites Bush doctrine Cory Doctorow
politics Iraqi defector whose phony WMD intel and "sexed up graphics" led to 100,000+ deaths: "Yes, I lied." Xeni Jardin
guestblog Smart Bombs: Mark Dery, Steven Pinker on the Nature-Nurture Wars and the Politics of IQ Mark Dery