- A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning—"The stand by conservatives that led to the current crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort, waged by a galaxy of well-funded groups, to undo President Obama's health care law." This started right after Obama got reelected. The puppet-masters? The Koch Brothers. NYT
- US shutdown is starting to hit business, says Commerce Secretary
- Dear President Obama: don't cave to the GOP's extortion politics—"The shutdown is political blackmail. If Democrats give in, the GOP will keep putting the US democracy and economy at risk."
- Fareed Zakaria: Government shutdown 'extortion'
- CBS host grills Cornyn: It's like shutting down government and demanding a 'cure for cancer'
- Clueless Republicans hatch incoherent shutdown strategy—"The GOP's fixation on extracting anything from Obama is blinding them to the incoherence of their game plan." Salon
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce backs Republicans who oppose shutdown
- Congressman Doyle Calls on House Republicans to End the Shutdown
- Give Us This Day, Our Daily Senate Scolding—"Senate chaplain shows his disapproval during morning prayer." NYT
- Why The Shutdown Will Last Another Week
- Robert Gibbs: Cruz is the 'Honey Boo Boo' of Washington
- Ted Cruz Says He Has 'Not Remotely' Hurt Republican Image With Shutdown Fight
- Ted Cruz: 'I Didn't Say Republicans Will Win' Shutdown Fight
- Some tea party congressmen find signs of political backlash at home
- Shutdown: The tea party's last stand
- Tea Party radicalism is misunderstood: Meet the "Newest Right"—"Our sense of the force currently paralyzing the government is full of misconceptions -- including what to call it." Salon
- To Understand the Shutdown You Have to Grasp the Mindset of the GOP Base
- The Brainwashing Of My Dad By Limbaugh, Fox & GOP Media
- Fox's Chris Wallace Accuses President Obama Of Trying To "Panic The Markets" Over Debt Ceiling
- Fox Falls For Fake Story About Obama Personally Funding Muslim Museum During Shutdown
- Despite GOP Resistance, Obamacare Competition 'Robust' Among Health Plans
- Some Tea Party-Backed Lawmakers Yield in Obamacare Fight
- GOP Rep. to Rep. Gohmert: We Gave Base 'False Interpretation' That ObamaCare Could be Defeated
- Republicans see shutdown fight shift away from 'Obamacare'
- GOP congressman: We stumbled into war over Obamacare—And Boehner doesn't want to be a casualty.
- Ted Cruz Doubles Down On His Failed Obamacare Strategy—Tying the debt ceiling to Obamacare.
- The Onion: The Republican Party Cannot Stand By And Let Obamacare Destroy This Country
- U.S. Congress enters crucial week in battles over budget, debt limit
- Experts: Be Very, Very Afraid of the Debt Crisis—"Top U.S. officials and economists say the global economy will take a much bigger hit than it did during the recession."
- Lew: 'Congress is playing with fire'
- Goldman: If The Debt Ceiling Isn't Raised And The Treasury Runs Out Of Cash, Then Say Goodbye To 4.2% Of GDP
- U.S. Republicans will not pass 'clean' debt-limit increase: Boehner
- Schumer To Boehner: Prove That A Clean Spending Bill Won't Pass—"Someone goes into your house, takes your wife and children hostage and then, says, let's negotiate over the price of your house."
- White House calls on Boehner to hold vote on 'clean' funding bill
- Boehner: House will not pass bill to re-open government until Obama agrees to negotiate
- House Speaker John Boehner demands cuts for debt limit increase—Only if the cuts are for the military, agriculture subsidies and other corporate welfare baggage.
- Krugman: The Boehner Bunglers—"Don't underestimate the incompetence factor." NYT
- Everybody Let's Stop the TPP: Share These Videos and Spread the Word
- Mozilla Bug Bug 923590 - Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
- Record Label Picks Copyright Fight — With The Wrong Guy
- Piracy Isn't Killing The Entertainment Industry, Scholars Show
- Chilean Embassy revokes prize of photo plagiarist—This recidivist, who has a telling history, had appealed to keep the money.
- Facebook apologizes for dating website ad featuring photo of Rehtaeh Parsons—She committed suicide over getting bullied on Facebook.
- Facebook Admits Its Ads Are Too Annoying—"Facebook says its ad targeting technology has irked its users and will be upgraded."
- Science proves Facebook is a major downer—"New research reveals the more we interact with the social network, the less satisfied we tend to feel." Salon
- Facebook Requires Social Fixer Browser Extension To Remove Key Features
- The Faces of Facebook—Almost 1.27 billion pictures for facial recognition software to sift through.
- Fake Apple Ad Says iOS 7 Will Make Your iPhone Waterproof And People Fell For It
- iOS 6 holdouts complain about large, unwanted iOS 7 download—"Apple's built-in update tool is downloading iOS 7 before people even ask to install it, taking up space that can't be reclaimed."
- Move over, Apple Maps: iPhone 5S motion sensor malfunction may be widespread
- Apple Maps flaw results in drivers crossing airport runway
- iOS 7 and motion sickness: What you can do, and where you can learn more
- Valve: How going boss-free empowered the games-maker
- Valve's Steam Machine prototype is tiny, potentially powerful
- Why skeptics should embrace Valve’s new Steam controller
- Can SteamOS drag the PC game industry over to Linux?
- Nvidia seeks peace with Linux, pledges help on open source driver–"Nvidia's move this week (on the same day that Valve announced a new Linux-based operating system for gaming) is a change of heart from the position it took last year after Torvalds' criticism."
- Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage
- Patent troll Lodsys chickens out, folds case rather than face Kaspersky Lab—"After two years, its notorious patents were going to a jury. Lodsys blinked."
- Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit—"Patent trolls are legal. Can one be nailed for extortion? One man is betting yes." Lumen fired back by claiming being called patent trolls was a hate crime.
- Large patent holders hate this reform proposal. That's a good sign.
- Judge orders patent troll to explain its 'Mr. Sham' to jury
- Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer
- Patent goliath Intellectual Ventures looks to raise another $3 billion
- F.T.C. Votes for Inquiry Into Patent Businesses—"Edith Ramirez, the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, said it would seek information on businesses whose main purpose was to sue other companies to collect patent royalties." NYT
- Schneier: Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don't Connect to the Internet
- Technologists To NSA Review Group: Don't Forget About The Interests Of Non-US Persons
- Security issue kills domestic spying inquiry—"NSA won't grant Justice Department lawyers required security clearance."
- Deep Web Users Are Ready To Launch Silk Road 2.0
- VPNs: Is it OK to Monitor 'Bad' Users on Ethical Grounds?
- Selling Secrets of Phone Users to Advertisers—"Advertisers and tech companies are finding new ways to track us on our smartphones and reach us with individualized ads." NYT
- MasterCard joining push for fingerprint ID standard—Preparing for the day when cash is no longer legal tender?
- Bad Astronomy Movie Review: Gravity
- 'Gravity' reality check: Alfonso Cuarón and Sandra Bullock talk fact vs. fiction
- Edelstein: Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Will Delight Physicists, Terrify Everybody Else
- The Camera's Cusp: Alfonso Cuarón Takes Filmmaking to a New Extreme With Gravity
- Meet the Flute-Playing Astronaut Who Coached Sandra Bullock for "Gravity"
