Author: Doug Simmons

So, The Man shut down Intrade, a site where you could buy and sell contracts that would pay if various events, mainly political, happened. For example you could

I thought it couldn’t happen to me, that I would never see myself as a victim. So the latest sleazy way to grind out a few dimes on

Doug Simmons: The 2014 Olympics, even if it were to go down without more bombs and terrorist rhetoric, is a failure, and we should all cut our losses

Doug Simmons (13:18EST 1/4/14): Hey Stephen, do you suppose that if New York City’s new mayor, of whom I’m not a fan, decided to impress me by decreeing that

NBC ran a bit on the news last night about UPS catching heat for failing to deliver everything in time for Christmas. They quoted Bruce the mailman noting

Yo dog! Rap Genius was founded by Yale graduates. It’s hard to get into Yale, got to be real smart, and then Yale makes you smarter. It’s also

Do-not-track header, incognito mode, opt-out, Adblock, Ghostery, Noscript, Tor? All a bunch of bullshit for those of you who want to hide your web surfing wake from The

To save some milliseconds I’ve been sparing my visitors a DNS lookup by fetching the ga.js file, on which Google Analytics is dependent. I host and serve the

Look, I don’t know what my problem is, and I’m not proud of this, but I’m sort of a racial/national/ideological/ethnic tension rubbernecker. It’s fascinating to me how many

I run an experimental site on the side currently made up of several WebP images per page (with no JPEG fallback), oftentimes extremely high res. Don’t ask what