Byrnes: I think we took out the Internet with our sex.
Julia Alison, you have done something amazing: You have made it onto my radar. I am absurdly myopic when it comes to Internet celebrities—unless they become targets of criticism on the Huffington Post. All those updates about your crazy lives just fly right over my silly head.
But then haven’t I seen your name tossed [...]
Yesterday, just as I got home from work, the sky started to fall.
There was no holding back. It poured. Rain—to be utterly cliché—fell in sheets. Thunder rumbled. Lightning flashed. I had to run around the house to close all the windows.
All that lasted for fifteen minutes. Then it was [...]
In 1997, the musician Momus released the song “The Age of Information”. The tune is eerie. Gentle, sustained tones accompany a hushed, dispassionate voice. Electronic sounds—bleeps and bloops—trickle faintly in the background. The tone is calm, soothing, even as the lyrics list warning after warning about online life. In 1997, the [...]
TwitterSnooze temporarily snoozes your chatty Twitter friends. Ever want to ignore someone’s Tweets? Now you can.
Dramatisation in news. Straight from Media Studies 101.
Rejecting the “model” in model minority. Asian Americans are the classic model minority; we are, supposedly, amiable and submissive to Caucasian authority. Not only is this demeaning to Asian Americans, it [...]
San Diego start-up stem-cell company discovered a new type of stem cell in menstrual blood. The venture, so far, looks promising. The stem cells can replicate themselves far more than bone marrow stem cells. On one hand, we may be able to avoid the ethical issues due to stem cell research. [...]
I just enabled Gravatars in the current Wordpress theme. A gravatar is a globally recognised avatar. Very useful! Now I don’t have to upload the same avatar to different sites (or, at least, to the ones that are gravatar-enabled).
How to use gravatars? Just go to gravatar.com, enter your e-mail, and set [...]
[E]very woman on the Internet gets called slutty and ugly and fat (to put it lightly) no matter what; all we have to be is female. (link)
It’s quite sad because it’s true. But it’s not just the Internet. Image-bashing happens in real life, too. Who hasn’t heard (or said) that a woman [...]
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