Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Play This Thing too much, or maybe it’s because I’m really enjoying the crap out of Guitar Hero. I don’t know. What […]
society
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Ownership means decisions
The “tragedy of the commons” – the idea that if something is a communal resource, then everyone will abuse it – is not a big deal in today’s […]
society / sociology
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Reputations aren't for sale.
I, like many other people, was utterly entranced by Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cory Doctorow’s breakout book, it posits a post-scarcity world where the economy […]
sexism / society / sociology / tolerance
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At least he's not wearing a bra.
And here I thought it was going to be a blog-free day. Color this conflict theory: Lipstick-wearing boy not kissing up to school district Allsup said the makeup […]
rant / society
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You say vampire, I say don't cry, emo kid.
In the weird, odd way that the Internet has, I stumbled across real-life vampires last weekend. When I was a teenager – and Ann Rice’s Vampire Chronicle novels […]
society
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Degrading Gracefully
The concept of degrading has a different emphasis in the world of technology. When we talk about degrading in the physical world, it is always in the sense […]