Wednesday, September 22

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The rise and fall of Suck.com, the web’s first daily-updated site.

Saturday, September 18

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A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

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The writer (Aaron Sorkin), director (David Fincher), and actors (Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake) of The Social Network on dramatizing the real story of a 20 year old into “the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies.”

Wednesday, September 15

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A new strain of educational thought (and practice) involves embracing the technology of the moment - which means bringing video games into the classroom.

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Movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to connect with viewers, but video games on the topic have broken sales records.

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A game called Spacewar is developed by early computer engineers in their spare time, improved in University comp-sci labs, and ultimately made available in coffeeshops for ten cents per game.

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A game called Spacewar is developed by early computer engineers in their spare time, improved in University comp-sci labs, and ultimately made available in coffeeshops for ten cents per game.

Monday, September 13

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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, on the eve of the release of The Social Network, believed to be a deeply unflattering portrait of him and the genesis of his company.

Thursday, September 2

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A 2009 profile of the guy behind 4chan, Christoper “moot” Poole, his anonymous army of millions, and how it’s all losing him money.

Tuesday, August 10

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How Madden NFL went from a programmer’s childhood dream to a $3 billion business.

Wednesday, August 4

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How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

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How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.