Adi Robertson

Thanks to Metafilter for introducing me to The Box. Wearable technology for women will never be the same.

It was either yesterday or today, and I’m feeling almost nostalgic enough to boot up the original game and sneak around the Statue of Liberty while enjoying one of PC gaming’s all-time great soundtracks.

Maybe, argues longtime internet law scholar Danielle Citron, sometimes you shouldn’t. We’ve got a slow holiday Thursday here at The Verge, so it’s time for me to finally read this paper from early June about alternatives to the “parental control model” of children’s privacy online — a topic that’s not going away any time soon.

The incredibly weird saga of the ordered, then reversed, then passed, then upheld, then ignored, then ignored even harder attempt to ban one of America’s most popular social networks continues — as it will continue until US-China tensions cool down, everyone forgets it ever happened, or the heat death of the universe.

Erika Hall has reminded me and every other millennial on the internet of David Rees’ clipart webcomic Get Your War On, a cultural document of a period that is suddenly seeming awfully relevant. This ran for almost eight years.

I couldn’t possibly single out the best of many perfect lines in Kerry Howley’s detailed and morbidly funny exposé of chaos at the Pentagon, where Signalgate was just the tip of the iceberg. But this part is pretty good: