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2014

Dec 29Movie: “The Interview.”
Dec 22Sony Hacked
Apr 28Tech Blog Code of Ethics
Apr 14Buffer Overflow
Apr 7Flawed Methodology
Mar 31Best Web Browser Extension
Mar 24Comcast and Netflix
Mar 17SMTP Developers’ Gathering
Mar 1040 Million Credit Cards — VIII
Mar 340 Million Credit Cards — VII
Feb 2440 Million Credit Cards — VI
Feb 1740 Million Credit Cards — V
Feb 1040 Million Credit Cards — IV
Feb 340 Million Credit Cards — III
Jan 2740 Million Credit Cards — II
Jan 2040 Million Credit Cards — I
Jan 13I Can Barely Draw Staff Meeting — NSA Letter

2013

Nov 18Helium Balloon
Nov 11Affordable Air — II
Nov 4Affordable Air — I
Oct 14GPS Voice
Oct 7Sarcasm
Sep 30In Defense of Hackers
Sep 23Rigged Slot Machines
Sep 16NSA Snooping
Sep 9Tolerance
Sep 2So You Think You Can Program
Aug 26Getting It
Aug 19Deep Blue
Aug 12Drop Test
Aug 5Movie Critic
Jul 29GPS Map Updates
Jul 22Top Secret NSA Slides
Jul 15Skype Security
Jul 8Herbal Tea
Jul 1Gay Marriage
Jun 24Metadata
Jun 17Surveillance Marriage
Jun 10Non-Profit Hospital
Jun 3Vegetarians
May 27Entire Wikipedia
May 20Skill Levels
May 13Scientists vs. People
May 6Apple and Bitcoins
Apr 29Speed-Dial Man
Apr 22Protocol
Apr 15Spray
Apr 8Product Rating
Apr 1Free Will
Mar 25Where’s Waldo?
Mar 18Crime and Punishment
Mar 11Long, Boring Meetings
Mar 4I Can Barely Draw Staff Meeting — Minorities
Feb 25How Programmers Talk
Feb 18New York Times Hacked
Feb 11Boeing 787 Batteries
Feb 4Google vs. Bing
Jan 28Android Nexus User Group
Jan 21Challenge
Jan 14RIP Aaron Swartz
Jan 7Connector
Jan 1New Year’s Day Soulmate

2012

Dec 31Null Hypothesis
Dec 24Apocalypse Averted
Dec 17Budget Deficit
Dec 10Core Dump
Dec 3Gardens
Nov 28Clean MRI
Nov 26MRI
Nov 19CEO
Nov 12Falsifiability
Nov 5Apple Maps Apology
Oct 29Agile Candidate
Oct 22I Can Barely Draw Staff Meeting — Complaint
Oct 15High Dynamic Range
Oct 8Columbus Day
Oct 1Stereotypes
Sep 24Maps
Sep 17Spares
Sep 10T-Shirts
Sep 3But You’re a Something
Aug 27Baby
Aug 20Art
Aug 13Prohibited
Aug 6Sharp Corners
Jul 30First Things First
Jul 23Megapixels
Jul 20Born This Way
Jul 18No Connection Whatsoever
Jul 16Feathers
Jul 13Silk
Jul 11Nexus Q
Jul 9Monster Cables
Jul 2I Can Barely Draw — Aftermath
Jun 25I Can Barely Draw Prediction
Jun 18Occam’s Razor
Jun 11Airline Fare Rules
Jun 4Expired Session
May 28I Can Barely Draw Staff Meeting
May 21Google N-Grams
May 14Free Cloud Server
May 11Bicycling
May 9Divergence
May 7Empathy
May 4Maximized Happiness
May 2Roller Coaster
Apr 30Grey Fonts
Apr 27Worth Taking Home
Apr 25Speed
Apr 23I Can Barely Draw Minus I Can Barely Draw
Apr 20Backups
Apr 18Deactivation Code
Apr 16Wine Recipe
Apr 13The Oracle of Happiness
Apr 11Flashback Malware
Apr 9TV Gets Dumber Every Day
Apr 6How They Designed USB
Apr 4Poor Timing
Apr 2Talented Brains
Mar 30The Last Humans
Mar 28Picasso
Mar 26Tests
Mar 23Maroon
Mar 21CFL Lifetime
Mar 19Siri
Mar 16How the Web Was Won
Mar 14Damn You
Mar 12RAM Savings Time
Mar 9Axes Without Labels
Mar 7Embarrassed Sympathy
Mar 5Pointless Venn Diagrams
Mar 2Kid-Friendly Design
Feb 29Money, money, money
Feb 27Planning Ahead
Feb 24KVM Switch
Feb 22Ignoring
Feb 20High Octane
Feb 17Schrödinger’s Cat
Feb 16The Ultimate Self-Referential Comic
Feb 15Out, Damned Spot
Feb 14Difficulty Levels
Feb 13Love Me Tonight
Feb 10Lowest Bidder
Feb 8Breaking Up
Feb 6Hot Air Balloon
Feb 3Windows Upgrade
Feb 1One Day Longer
Jan 30Man With Flowers
Jan 27Movie Comebacks
Jan 25Beale Cipher Solved
Jan 23Backslash
Jan 20Spine Appointment
Jan 19Wind Direction Uncertain
Jan 18SOPA Blackout
Jan 16Terms of Service
Jan 13Movies
Jan 11Cloud Migration
Jan 9Machine of Death
Jan 6Bargain Hunting
Jan 4Timing
Jan 2Potato, Potahto
Jan 1New Year’s Day 2012

2011

Dec 30Short-Circuit Or
Dec 28Linux-Free Zone
Dec 26Ambiguous Art
Dec 23Shower Tap Design Guidelines
Dec 21Redundancy in the Cloud
Dec 19Pioneer
Dec 16Mood Updates
Dec 15Takedown
Dec 14Decision
Dec 12Apple Tree Falls on Newton, Creating a Parallel Universe
Dec 9Back Button
Dec 7Servers
Dec 5Comcast Buys an Airline
Dec 2Software Life Cycle
Nov 30Columbus Sails in Search of Privacy on Facebook
Nov 28Equality
Nov 25Rule 34.5
Nov 23Einstein Accidentally Posts to Wrong URL
Nov 21Klout Score
Nov 18Perl T-Shirt — II
Nov 17Rambus
Nov 16Perl T-Shirt — I
Nov 14Fail-Safe
Nov 11How to Get Technical Support
Nov 9Correlation is not Causation
Nov 7Founding of Anonymous
Nov 4Prius
Nov 2Rules of Torn Jeans
Oct 31Swing Patent
Oct 28In-the-Field Bug Fix
Oct 26The Real Thing
Oct 24Verify Trust
Oct 21Rapture
Oct 19Assume Malice
Oct 17Killer Feature
Oct 14Open Source Fly-by-Wire
Oct 12Soulmate Algorithm — IV
Oct 10Soulmate Algorithm — III
Oct 7Soulmate Algorithm — II
Oct 6Apple Pie Chart
Oct 5Soulmate Algorithm — I
Oct 3Hubble Limit Dolphins
Sep 30An Alien Counts It Fingers
Sep 28Relationship Dilemma
Sep 26A Short History of HP — II
Sep 24Remittitur – IV
Sep 23Remittitur – III
Sep 22Remittitur — II
Sep 21Remittitur — I
Sep 20Counting the Basketball
Sep 19Eliminating Titles
Sep 18iCloud-enabled iDevice
Sep 17Improved Airport Security Scanning
Sep 16Life Forms on Google Plus
Sep 15Yahoo! Exclamation Mark
Sep 14Buffett vs Yahoo
Sep 139-11 Conspiracy
Sep 12Knuth vs Cartoonist
Sep 11Dinosaur Investments
Sep 10Hacker Convention
Sep 9Virus on Facebook
Sep 8Hi I’m a Megan
Sep 6Time Warp, or Suspended Universe?
Sep 5Time Warp
Sep 4Steve Jobs Resigns I Weep
Sep 3Jobs, Ballmer, Euler, and Me
Sep 1Trust Nothing that Comic Strip Characters Say About Hurricane Names
Aug 30I’m Feeling Reckless Today
Aug 29Google Dating Search
Aug 28Google Maps Post-Hurricane Layer
Aug 26Tech Blogs Whining Perfected
Aug 25Magnitude 5.9 Reactions
Aug 24That’s How You Get on the Internet
Aug 23Don’t Throw Away Your TouchPad
Aug 22Moore’s Law Hits a Limit
Aug 21Cornell PDF Only
Aug 20A Short History of HP
Aug 19Google Motorola Negotiations
Aug 18Maybe You Just Think They Are Your Friends
Aug 16For Example Google Plus
Aug 12But You Can Look it Up in the New York Times
Aug 11Samsung Seeks Injunction
Aug 9Punctuation Editor
Aug 8Tech Blogs Whining
Aug 7Facebook Data Export
Aug 6Facebook Privacy Settings
Aug 5Blogging vs Journalism