Yearly War on Christmas Poop

Fox news, always showing off their investigative reporting skills, does their yearly war on Christmas.  Of coarse it's all bile, but at least its great fodder for the Daily Show.  Now CNN posts a history of our governments involvement in Christmas and how it has in the past been much less involved.  

Kapton Tape Please!

Yes Virginia, you can own someones computer, look through their camera, and not have the "record" light hint to the user what is going on.  This is why it's a good idea to cover those cameras!

Three Blind Phreaks

Old favorite 2600 story from a while back.  It's about the blind Badir brothers, and how they completely owned Bezeq (Israels old MaBell)

Free Arcade Games Online!

The Internet Archive is publishing old video games online that you can play directly on your web browser!  All hail the Internet Archive!

Life @ Amazon in UK

Financial Times has an interesting piece on what working at Amazon in Rugeley UK is like. Hard work, job insecurity, and mindless work. Interesting how they do stuff, but also depressing. Moral of story: try as hard as you can to stay in school.

Wealth Inequality in America

Well put together (and researched) video of the delta of wealth in the US.

winamp is dead. Long live winamp!

ArsTechnica notes that after 15 years, AOLs mismanagement has eventually killed winamp.

WINAMP IS BACK!!!!
Winamp 5.8 Has Been Officially Released And Supports Windows 10!!

Bartolome not Columbus

'Cause Columbus was a dick!

(as pointed out in the Oatmeal)

No more 4th!

Following up on a previous note about how DHS has just about removed the 4th amendment, On the Media, has an interesting piece about Terry Bressi and his difficulties getting to work without being harassed by law enforcement.

who has our debt?

Because of our stupid House of Reps, and their threats to default on our dept, Planet Money has a nice graphic to visualize who has the largest amounts of our bonds.