Technology:

• "Strategy Letter V" (Reminder: Android vs iPhone, Oculus vs Vive, Microsoft vs Apple, Facebook vs media, Twitter vs API users, Amazon vs anything - everything in SV is ruled by 'commoditize your complement' and low marginal costs.)
• "DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with a Malicious Proof-of-Work", Wustrow & VanderSloot 2016 (Who knew HTTPS connections could provide third-party-verifiable signatures and so HTTPS is a valid Proof-of-Work and one can incentivize creating HTTPS connections and hence DDoSes?)
• "Losing My Revolution: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?", SalahEldeen & Nelson 2012
• "Learnable Programming: Designing a programming system for understanding programs"

Economics:

• "The Case Against Everyone's Favorite Tax Break: The Mortgage Interest Deduction"
• "Fair Division of Black-Hole Negentropy: an Introduction to Cooperative Game Theory"
• "Arbitrage and equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 economy"
• "Open-access deal for particle physics: Consortium brokers agreement with 12 journals"
• "Grade inflation: why weren't the instructors all giving all A's already?"

Philosophy:

• "Trying to See Through: A Unified Theory of Nerddom"
• "Covert virtue - the signal that doesn't bark?"
• "Let Us Give To Future"
• Alarm Bell Phrase

Fiction:

• The Mongolian Wizard: "Day of the Kraken", Michael Swanwick
• "Villon's Straight Tip To All Cross Coves"

Misc:

• "Detailed Discussion of Legal Rights and Duties in Lost Pet Disputes", Berry 2010 (lost/abandoned pets are surprisingly complex legally)
• "What was it like to try a rat? (Comparative Jurisprudence, part 1)"
• Tendril perversion (An uncommon name for a common phenomenon; investigated by no less than Charles Darwin.)
• WSJ hedcut