Tuesday Miscellany!

[maxomai]

• Snowden revealed to us that our emails aren't safe from Big Brother. But did you know that they're not safe from Big Oil, either?


• Speaking of which, the US House is set to vote on an Amendment to gut funding for the NSA's data mining program.


• As Detroit declares Chapter 9 bankruptcy, another US city grits its teeth and sells its memorabilia to avoid the same fate: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania


• The Works of Aleister Crowley is now available as a facsimile reprint. Nice as this is, it does press the point that the process of editing the Crowley material seems to have suffered from scope creep and other delays.


• If I was single and could marry software, I'd at least ask Homebrew out on a date. (Yes, I'm the kind of geek who uses the terminal on his Mac.)