Whilst wandering around a Berlin Christmas market with surveillance-concerned friends from ten different countries last night, we came up with a lovely holiday song for you all (with a little help from Twitter friends*). From the bottom: On the twelfth day of Christmas, the NSA gave to me: Twelve days of torture, Eleven days in […]
Author: Jillian
Last year I wrote a post highlighting 13 organizations I’d donated to in 2012. I still wholeheartedly recommend all of those, but this year, I’d like to highlight 5 more! The following are all causes that I have donated to at some point, and a few are places that are near and dear to me […]
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The most artful of spam emails
Subject: Uprising! Hi there, My name is Aisha daughter of Shukri Ghanem. We fled from Libya last year following the uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi. My father’s death is no longer news but my mother’s deteriorating health made me want to do this despite the fact that I barely know you. I believe in my […]