In which I bitch about things I see on Twitter! (You kids get off my lawn!) A snowflake narrative is being claimed by nearly everybody these days, from African Americans to feminists to white males to the parents of autistic children, and they’re all saying the same thing: our suffering is so unique that no […]
The death of expertise is a rejection not only of knowledge, but of the ways in which we gain knowledge and learn about things. It’s a rejection of science. It’s a rejection, really, of the foundation of Western civilization: yes, that paternalistic, racist, ethnocentric approach to knowledge that created the nuclear bomb, the Edsel, and […]
In which we’ve moved. Keef has been hosting goblinbox.com for free for years on a sandbox server he had co-located somewhere in California. That box finally got compromised. (I’m surprised it took as long as it did, honestly.) He decided to take the box down since he wasn’t really using it, so I had to […]
In which apparently I am too busy. [dropcap]I[/dropcap] check my website daily to see if anything’s happening. I think some part of me seriously expects to find brilliant posts that I haven’t written enjoying all kinds of comments and traffic. In lieu of content, this:
In which each regulation begets a new one, aimed at shoring up its own failures. [dropcap]T[/dropcap]his site is going dark on the 18th in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Yes, people should be paid for their work. Yes, pirates are jerks. No, I’m not going to give up my civil liberties in pursuit of what […]
In which I like social media, and I don’t care who knows it. First of all, I am a Sprint customer. Second of all, my contract’s up for renewal, which means I’m finally eligible for a new phone and I just got my tax return so maybe I could splurge a little and get a […]
In which there’s a birthday! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is ten years old today! goblinbox.com is […]
In which another country’s dictator tries to disconnect it from the world. Have you been paying attention to Libya? (And Bahrain? And Yemen? Algeria?) Well, it disappeared from the Internet tonight: “Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, just after midnight Saturday local time), and […]
In which this website would be in fifth grade now, if it were human. GOBLINBOX.COM is nine years old today. It’s been on at least seven different servers. It’s been hand-coded, it’s been run on Movabletype and WordPress. It’s had ten different forums. There have been as many as eight different databases at a time. […]
In which my fucking browser ate my post so I had to write the whole thing all over again! Gah! So NOW this post is totally an exercise in Weird Tense. It’s a good thing I majored in Literature, y’all, or we’d never make it through this. Yeah, so I’d started out today’s missive with […]
