- Chelsea Manning on media freedom.
- Ian Bogost on my favorite Star Trek episode Darmok.
- The Nation's interview with Edward Snowden.
- Leigh Alexander on Twin Peaks and the recent Law & Order SVU episode about Gamergate.
- The Challenge of Teaching At A Community College.
- Soccer Gods on the fall of Nottingham Forest.
- Guardian on Stevie Smith.
- The Geek Agenda on Sansa Stark.
- Jill Walker Rettberg on teaching BASIC in 2015.
- The Intercept on encrypting your laptop.
Books Read In 2012
- Being A Green Mother by Piers Anthony
- The Tent by Margaret Atwood
- New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
- Racing The Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort
- Amulet by Roberto Bolano
- Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
- The Mind of Italo Calvino by Dan Cavallaro
- The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Crossed by Ally Condie
- Noir by Robert Coover
- Down & Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
- The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow by Cory Doctorow
- The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities by Frank Donoghue
- Football The First Hundred Years The Untold Story by Adrian Harvey
- My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts by N. Katherine Hayles
- The Map & The Territory by Michel Houllebecq
- Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives by Jeff Howard
- Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
- Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James
- Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- The Life & Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson
- Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
- Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
- The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
- Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How they Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
- Batman The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
- Batman Year One by Frank Miller
- Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Batman-The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
- V For Vendetta by Alan Moore
- The Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabakov
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Authors In Context: Virginia Woolf by Michael Whitworth
- The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
- The Quran (Sher Ali Holy translation)
- Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
- The Tel Quel Reader