New Orleans Yesterday was a tough day in the world of the Chief Organizer’s Report. Our website was shutdown again for four hours because of spam attacks. Usually our server hosts can beat this back, but yesterday as they told me “the bad guys won one.” Ironically this was on the same day that I …
Month: August 2013
LibGen.Info – Free Books While it Lasts
New Orleans Ok, I didn’t mean to be coy the other day, but my scholarly campfire friend got back to me, and the site he was recommending that might be the Napster of free books is: www.libgen.info This site is so under the radar that I could find absolutely nothing about it on either …
Justice Going Wikileaks on Middlemen in Payday Lending Schemes
New Orleans By issuing subpoenas to the financial institutions that are enabling blatantly illegal payday lending schemes and scams, the Department of Justice with provocation from the New York State Attorney General’s actions, finally seems to be getting serious about stopping these predators, largely by picking up a page from the State Department’s Wikileaks assault …