I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Sarah Igo, The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America: ( Social Security tattoos )

Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?: ( My name is no, my number is no )


Xaq Frohlich, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age: ( labels instead of standards )

Matthew D. Morrison, Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States: ( appropriation and art )
Matthew Sears, Sparta and the Commemoration of War: ( Sparta as bad role model )

Infocide in open content communities: Includes flouncing, but puts it in a larger context.

Bankruptcy court overlooks predatory lending, discharges student loans based on debtor’s autism instead. It’s important to remember that the strategies that benefit an individual client in court can be harmful overall (and maybe even to the client in some ways). Here, the strategy is only desirable because of the way creditor-favoring laws have made it almost impossible for a person to discharge educational debt; we didn’t have to create these alternatives.

Via giandujakiss: There was fan fiction before you called it fan fiction, and before there was copyright it was called writing. -- Anne Jamison, English professor

( Grant Morrison, the Columbian exchange, Barbie as folk art, the relationship between freedom and the internet, and a great book on the history of technology )