This, my friends, is the intersection between the internet and mass media at its finest: It’s fun! It’s free! And it’s available on the internets… until Sunday. I think that’s my one lament about it, actually. It’s only up for …
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A friend of mine from grad school works at a company that promotes magazines. Apparently the P.R. director got approached by the editor of this magazine: It’s called Cats in Space, and I think it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve …
Sally pointed out this blog, which features strange maps and their function. I must admit I find it fascinating. This map, in particular, is a startling reminder that reality differs greatly from our perceptions thereof; this map, on the other …
Facebook has a feature that allows you to give virtual gifts to your friends. Most of these cost $1 and are pretty generic and benign–a guitar, a birthday cake, or, once, a piece of paper. On occasion, a company will …
Minor point of irritation: corporately sponsored recipes. You know, the kind that comes in those recipe books you can order with 5 proofs of purchase, or the ones on the packaging for your preprocessed food. Today, I think I lost …
So… apparently they’re making a print volume of Wikipedia now? I’m actually kind of torn on how I should feel about this. On the one hand, this almost completely contradicts everything that makes Wikipedia what it is: a triumph of …
Lore Sjöberg has just summed up the entirety of social networking in a column about Twitter: “The internet is to human interaction as Pringles are to potatoes.”
If I ever go back to school after I finish my Master’s, it will be for programming. I’m getting sick of taking hours trying to figure out what any trained programmer could do in minutes. Case in point: I now …
Larry Norman, Christian rock legend, passed away this morning. For those who don’t know who he was, in many ways he did for Christian music what Elvis did for music in general. I can’t even find the words for a …
I refer you to this piece. I actually *wouldn’t* take that bet–in short, the bet is that video games will never be a significant form of cultural discourse. In many ways, I agree with him that video games require too …