With a Little Help (53 page)

Cory Doctorow ([email protected]) is a writer, activist, journalist and blogger. He is co-owner/editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net), a popular blog. He is also the author of several novels for adults (
Makers
from Tor Books in the USA and HarperCollins in the UK and Commonwealth is the most recent) and two novels for young adults (the
New York Times
bestseller
Little Brother
, 2008 and
For the Win
, 2010, also from Tor and HarperCollins), as well as three short story collections (including this one) and a book of essays (
Content
, Tachyon, 2008).

His writing has won the Locus Award, the White Pine Award, the Sunburst Award, the Golden Duck Award, the Prometheus Award, and the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer, as well as the
other
John W Campbell Award for best book. He has also been nominated for several Hugo and Nebula Awards, including Best Novel.

He writes for several magazines, newspapers and websites, including
Make
,
The Guardian
(London), and
Locus Magazine
.

Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London, England, with his wife and daughter. He is the former European Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and he co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. He is a Forbes "25 Top Web Influencers" and a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader" and served as the Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. He is also a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Open University (UK) and Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo Independent Studies Program (Canada).

His personal blog is at craphound.com.

The entire text of this book can be downloaded from ‹
http://craphound.com/walh
›

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Thanks to my readers for catching the following typos (page numbers refer to print edition):

Alyssa Palmer: "Leider'",
copyright page
, Mar 25, 2011.

OldMiser: "Peoples'",
Title page
, P6, Dec 11, 2010.

OldMiser: "Peoples'",
Contents
, P9, Dec 11, 2010.

Eunah Choi: missing sentence,
Introduction
, P11, Jan 1, 2011

Corina Julea: "how will",
Introduction
, P11, Feb 12, 2011

Ralph Broom: "overlayed",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P17, Dec 7, 2010.

Ralph Broom: "heirarchy",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P18, Dec 7, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "other peoples'",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P20, Dec 8, 2010.

Eric Halin: missing quote,
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P27, Dec 31, 2010.

Andrew Crocker: "understandingthe",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P31, Nov 1, 2010.

Set Humme: "my cue to go",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P31, Dec 9, 2010.

Tim: "ttttt",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P32, Feb 22, 2011.

Kris Van den Bergh: "23d",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P34, Feb 25, 2011.

Roger van der Horst: "order",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P38, Jan 5, 2011.

Ralph Broom: "Analysitcs",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P38, Dec 7, 2010.

Roger van der Horst: "datastreams",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P38, Jan 5, 2011.

Daniel Baron: "Krotosky",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P39, Mar 3, 2011.

Joe Burch: "playing on",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P41, Jan 5, 2011.

Bertrand Lorentz: "backto",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P42, Dec 7, 2010.

Steve Bradford: "listen him",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P43, Jun 12, 2011.

Roger van der Horst: missing comma,
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P48, Jan 5, 2011.

Tycho Clendenny: "hadn't told the man his name",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P51, Jan 12, 2011.

Roger van der Horst: "data streams",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P56, Jan 5, 2011.

Ryan Junk: "sauve",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P58, Dec 7, 2010.

Ryan Bernacki: "a lot gauze pads",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P60, Dec 7, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "what whatever",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P62, Dec 8, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "If Zbigkrot",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P62, Dec 8, 2010.

Roger van der Horst: "Gerta",
The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
, P62, Jan 5, 2011.

Paul Renault: "hand made",
The Right Book
, P65, Dec 13, 2010.

Anthony Sheetz: "said. getting",
The Right Book
, P71, Dec 8, 2010.

OldMiser: "Peoples'",
Other People's Money
, P73, Dec 11, 2010.

Katelyn Eads: Extra quote,
Other Peoples' Money
, P75, Dec 8, 2010.

Haakon Nilsen: "momento'",
Other People's Money
, P76, Dec 13, 2010.

OldMiser: "Peoples'",
Other People's Money
, P79, Dec 11, 2010.

Bowerbird: "Peoples'",
Other People's Money
, P79, Jan 19, 2011.

Katelyn Eads: Missing period in opening quote,
Scroogled
, P81, Dec 8, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "starting googling",
Scroogled
, P81, Dec 8, 2010.

Stefan Raets: "turned rotated",
Scroogled
, P82, Mar 9, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "Al Quaeda",
Scroogled
, P84, Dec 8, 2010.

Carl Rigney: "Greg has just",
Scroogled
, P84, Dec 20, 2010.

David Mediavilla: "public lice",
Scroogled
, P87, Jan 26, 2011.

Chris Kovacs: em-dash,
Scroogled
, P88, Dec 27, 2010.

Chris Kovacs: missing quote,
Scroogled
, P89, Dec 27, 2010.

Steve Clark: "unplumable",
Scroogled
, P91, Dec 13, 2010.

Ken VanBree: "that this",
Scroogled
, P93, Jun 30, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "hissed a laughed",
Scroogled
, P95, Dec 8, 2010.

Seamus Joyce-Johnson: punctuation error,
Scroogled
, P95, Aug 26, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "that'd he'd",
Human Readable
, P103, Dec 8, 2010.

Chris Kovacs: misformatted title,
Human Readable
, P103, Dec 27, 2010.

Katelyn Eads: "twice times a day",
Human Readable
, P108, Dec 8, 2010.

Carl Rigney: "supercalafragilistic'",
Human Readable
, P113, Dec 20, 2010.

Bowerbird: "supercalafragilistic'",
Human Readable
, P113, Apr 18, 2011.

Johannes Payr: "sheltters",
Human Readable
, P113, Jan 14, 2011.

Ralph Broom: "yarlmulke",
Human Readable
, P113, Dec 11, 2010.

Ralph Broom: "paen",
Human Readable
, P120, Dec 11, 2010.

Steve Clark: "Nickle",
Human Readable
, P120, Dec 14, 2010.

Bowerbird: "tassles",
Human Readable
, P122, Apr 19, 2011.

Mike McConnell: "a solutions",
Human Readable
, P123, Dec 8, 2010.

Chris Noto: "into",
Human Readable
, P123, Nov 25, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "found its'",
Human Readable
, P125, Dec 8, 2010.

Mark Vadnais: apostrophe instead of quote-mark,
Human Readable
, P128, Mar 22, 2011.

Mike McConnell: "and rainer and"
Human Readable
, P135, Dec 8, 2010

Carl Rigney: "media-training'",
Human Readable
, P145, Dec 20, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "berzerk",
Human Readable
, P148, Dec 8, 2010.

Steve Huff: "Fall's Church",
Human Readable
, P149, Jul 2, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "uncorruptable",
Human Readable
, P151, Dec 8, 2010.

Paul Renault: "Akwesahsne",
Liberation Spectrum
, P157, Dec 13, 2010.

Susan Hamburger: "Akwesahsne",
Liberation Spectrum
, P157, Jun 20, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "astrong",
Liberation Spectrum
, P157, Dec 8, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "probabalistically",
Liberation Spectrum
, P159, Dec 8, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "syndacalist",
Liberation Spectrum
, P161, Dec 8, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "awe-stuck",
Liberation Spectrum
, P161, Dec 8, 2010.

Sharon O'Rourke: "Surete",
Liberation Spectrum
, P161, Jul 5, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "thana",
Liberation Spectrum
, P166, Dec 8, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "do that have",
Liberation Spectrum
, P168, Dec 8, 2010.

Lise Andreasen: "got a good job",
Liberation Spectrum
, P168, Jan 7, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "ina",
Liberation Spectrum
, P168, Dec 8, 2010.

Mike Capp: "princples",
Liberation Spectrum
, P168, Mar 6, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "ahand",
Liberation Spectrum
, P169, Dec 8, 2010.

Pete S: "omnidirectional",
Liberation Spectrum
, P175, Jun 30, 2011.

Alex Ghitza: "altimiter",
Liberation Spectrum
, P176, Dec 8, 2010.

Eric Stacy: "the across",
Liberation Spectrum
, P176, May 6, 2011.

Paul Renault: "not ever",
Liberation Spectrum
, P182, Dec 13, 2010.

Phil Wellings: badly encoded punctuation,
Power Punctuation!
, P189, Dec 12, 2010.

Lise Andreasen: to be move,
Power Punctuation!
, P189, Jan 7, 2011.

David Mediavilla: lighting bolt,
Power Punctuation!
, P204, Jan 27, 2011.

Phil Wellings: badly encoded punctuation,
Power Punctuation!
, P206, Dec 12, 2010.

Helen Hokanson: "not coping mechanism",
Visit the Sins
, P212, Apr 19, 2011.

Bowerbird: "ask yes/no",
Visit the Sins
, P213, Apr 19, 2011.

Sean: "missing comma",
Visit the Sins
, P213, Jul 31, 2011.

OldMiser: "non compis",
Visit the Sins
, P218, Dec 11, 2010.

Jacob Lewis: "over educated",
Visit the Sins
, P220, Jan 17, 2011.

Karen Myers: "224",
Visit the Sins
, P225, May 23, 2011.

Yamandu Ploskonka: "principle ogre",
Visit the Sins
, P226, Jan 5, 2011.

Cindie Flannigan: stray asterisk,
Visit the Sins
, P226, Jan 5, 2011.

Mike Harris: "here down",
Visit the Sins
, P226, Jan 21, 2011.

Helen Hokanson: "spread hands",
Visit the Sins
, P228, Apr 19, 2010.

Mike McConnell: "Hebredies",
Constitutional Crisis
, P231, Dec 10, 2010.

Sam Bayless: "srqt",
Constitutional Crisis
, P233, Apr 10, 2011.

Mike McConnell: "levelingjob",
Constitutional Crisis
, P236, Dec 10, 2010.

Rob Alley: spurious character,
Constitutional Crisis
, P236, Jan 22, 2011.

Mike Swanson: spurious tilde,
Constitutional Crisis
, P236, Feb 14, 2011.

Chris Pepper: "to waged",
Constitutional Crisis
, P238, Dec 17, 2010.

Lise Andreasen: "Guild-enemy",
Constitutional Crisis
, P239, Jan 7, 2011.

Lise Andreasen: "clause 2",
Constitutional Crisis
, P239, Jan 7, 2011.

Lise Andreasen: "Guild-enemy",
Constitutional Crisis
, P240, Jan 7, 2011.

Stefan Raets: "got different",
Constitutional Crisis
, P240, Mar 10, 2011.

OldMiser: "non compis",
Pester Power
, P242, Dec 11, 2010.

Alex Ghitza: "botnet 's",
Pester Power
, P243, Dec 9, 2010.

Jim Wiggin: "Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit",
Pester Power
, P244, Jan 25, 2012.

Alex Ghitza: "econopocalytpic",
Chicken Little
, P256, Dec 9, 2010.