http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Tell Anyone and It Won't Be a Secret for Long ... but there's no accurate prediction of what happens when you share en Vox Sun, 11 May 2008 05:04:25 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/psst-hmd.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/psst-hmd.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/psst-hmd.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 11 May 2008 05:04:25 -0700 Every Hallmark card screams (politely) Happy Mother's Day. And yet for all the happy folks on this day, the holiday, too, masks its melancholy secrets. There is the one that as much as we honor and praise our mothers, we prefer other's parenting a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/psst-hmd.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00e398f882d20004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> holidays mothers http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/unsecret-ballots.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/unsecret-ballots.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/unsecret-ballots.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 10 May 2008 05:20:52 -0700 Occasionally, secrets have no power. Such is one more ingredient in the Myanmar/Burma stew of oppression and misery. According to a Reuters dispatch, at a "rehearsal" for today's secret ballot offered in secrecy, "voters were told they didn't have... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/unsecret-ballots.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00f48cf6a3080002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> politics elections http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/all-their-secret-powers.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/all-their-secret-powers.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/all-their-secret-powers.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 09 May 2008 04:52:36 -0700 Has the Bush administration lost its power to rule without public legitimacy? It seems doubtful, but it is still hopeful that the FBI desire to learn everyone's secret interests (via internet logs they probably didn't even know are kept) and the ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/all-their-secret-powers.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00f48d150cf30001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> paranoia bush administration laws http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-swap.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-swap.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-swap.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 08 May 2008 05:37:27 -0700 The thing about secrets that confuzzles is that the people who own them don't think they'll come out. Even when they themselve reveal them. Simon Foster, for example, fell on bad times after going on a the British show "Wife Swap" and having his c... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-swap.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00e398f7a7b30005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> television suicide infidelity http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/suprise-v-secret.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/suprise-v-secret.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/suprise-v-secret.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 07 May 2008 12:03:34 -0700 Witness-wise, what exactly is the difference between a "secret witness" and a "surprise witness?" For example, singer RR Kelly's trial is delayed because of a secret witness who may testify that she was part of the three-way with an underage girl... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/suprise-v-secret.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00e398f75f200004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music corruption witness judicial system http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/an-expensive-cybersecret.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/an-expensive-cybersecret.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/an-expensive-cybersecret.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 06 May 2008 05:06:45 -0700 ZOWIE!!!!! A potential $30 billion dollar secret -- cause if you are going to keep a secret, it should be a big one -- has some U.S. Senate folks dismayed. They're not in on it. 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Christine R was willing to be interviewed and have her picture taken along with her chihuahua, but bel... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/what-were-you-thinking.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00e398f69cfb0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> crazy evil delusional http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/baby-shower.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/baby-shower.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/baby-shower.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 04 May 2008 05:22:19 -0700 There is certainly something to be said about those who maintain propriety, who don't pry into the affairs of others. Still, it is a bit hard to understand how a Long Beach (Calif.) teenager kept her pregnancy secret until just after the contracti... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/baby-shower.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00f48cf4b2b40002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> teen pregnancy newborns http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-battle-urawaza-v-heloise.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-battle-urawaza-v-heloise.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-battle-urawaza-v-heloise.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 May 2008 04:49:23 -0700 Marketing is the massage. Again. Always claim to have knowledge of the unknown, because it is so much cooler to say you are using secret Urawaza rather than claim you're relying on Heloise's hints. To one up your friends, family or enemies even fu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/secret-battle-urawaza-v-heloise.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00e398f5f0a00004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> television books secrets hints http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/can-you-keep-a-secret-in-song.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(whatbigjodontknow) http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/can-you-keep-a-secret-in-song.html?_c=feed-rss http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/can-you-keep-a-secret-in-song.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 02 May 2008 05:27:49 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/video/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00e398f5b5c70005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00e398f5b5c70005-50si" alt="Utada Hikaru - Can you keep a secret" /></a> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/video/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00f48cf413c80002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00f48cf413c80002-50si" alt="Can You Keep a Secret?" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Welcome to Friday's ménage à secrets. Except we'll put les trois in competition, not in conjunction. So, two songs and one band battle for primacy over the unknown. First up, is Japanese pop nightingage Utada Hikaru asking: Then comes four Jer... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://whatbigjodontknow.vox.com/library/post/can-you-keep-a-secret-in-song.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41422cdb93c7f00f48cf41ebd0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music