Although it might sound like the beginning of one, this ain’t no joke, obviously: A Mongolian Neo-Nazi Environmentalist Walks Into a Lingerie Store in Ulan Bator.
Finally! The New York Times about Data Dealer: “A Game That Deals in Personal Data”.
Just in time for the last hours of the Kickstarter campaign: 23 hours and $7,000 to go… All fingers and toes crossed.
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Laurie Penny adds more* relevant insights about the Manic Pixie Dream Girl “which exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures”.
AOL 2.0 – write once, run everything.
Google Reader is just the latest casualty of the war that Facebook started, seemingly accidentally: the battle to own everything.
For half a century, one theory about the way we experience and express emotion has helped shape how we practice psychology, do police work, and even fight terrorism. But what if that theory is wrong?
“Arguably, you might think it would be the citizens’ own fault for going against ministerial advice by checking their Facebook statuses and using Google to search for that new pair of shoes — but actually it’s not. It’s the German government’s issue, politically and legally, to protect its citizens from espionage and foreign spying.”
Welcome. You can do anything.
I unlocked a NSFWCorp dispatch for you: Edward Snowden's Half-Baked Revolution.
Neologism: How Words Do Things With Words. (Via hubski.com.)