I have updated my original aLinks post with a version that works with WP 4.0.

Jameel Jaffer and Brett Max Kaufman in Slate. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has been harshly criticized for having misled Congress earlier this year about the scope of… Read more »

via Lessig.

If you have been following the news you must be aware that Aaron Swartz, a social-networking pioneer, academic researcher and clumsy hacktivist, has killed himself. Though he left no suicide… Read more »

Philip Greenspun has a surprising answer.

Mark’s latest list of software he considers essential for a Linux desktop.

Here’s one of those things that “can’t possibly happen” but does. The project builds fine under the Visual Studio 2008 IDE, but if I run it directly under MSBuild.exe it… Read more »

Consumers of digital hardware, software and services lost their most tireless advocate last week when Ed Foster died of a heart attack. EFF’s Fred von Lohmann provides an obituary: In… Read more »

Happy Birthday Becky. We all miss you.

For those who were wondering whether the new Congress might be just a little bit friendlier to open-source software, small developers, independent creative types and consumers in general, Lawrence Lessig… Read more »