Tom Charman recommended Anti-US violence isn't about a film, it's about an excuse from theage.com.au:

This is the behaviour of a drunkenly humiliated people: swinging wildly with the hope of landing a blow, any blow.

Tom Charman recommended We're not here for your inspiration from abc.net.au:

a woman patted me on the arm and said "I see you on the train every morning and I just wanted to say it's great. You're an inspiration to me." Should I have said "you too"? Because we were doing exactly the same thing; catching public transport to our respective places of employment. I was just doing it sitting down. Should I have pointed out that, in many ways, that requires less effort, not more?

Tom Charman recommended Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome from arstechnica.com:

Do any of these people know what they are talking about? And if anyone does, how can we know which ones to listen to? The research of Dunning and Kruger may well tell us there is no way to figure out the answers to any of these questions. That is kind of scary.

Tom Charman recommended The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol' Dial-Up Modem Sound from theatlantic.com:

Of all the noises that my children will not understand, the one that is nearest to my heart is not from a song or a television show or a jingle. It's the sound of a modem connecting with another modem across the repurposed telephone infrastructure. It was the noise of being part of the beginning of the Internet.

Tom Charman recommended Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal from blogs.telegraph.co.uk:

But what, I ask, about your great-great-great-grandchildren? What do they get? How can our laws be so heartless as to deny them the benefit of your hard work in the name of some do-gooding concept as the "public good", simply because they were born a mere century and a half after the book was written?