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  • Star Wars Galaxies Left a Black Hole

    Some 15 years after it launched, the absence of Star Wars Galaxies has left a sizeable hole in my life that’s never been replaced. From its bug-laden beginnings in summer of 2003, whatever anyone else said, my lightsaber-lit imagination was fired – and I was hooked.


  • Want To Really Block The Tech Giants? Here’s How

    Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple move more money than many medium-sized nations. Their extraordinary profits are won through extraordinary reach—this is not a secret. That a few companies are afforded unprecedented and shamefully unregulated access into our homes is now an unremarkable fact of living with tiny computers everywhere.