On U MAD??? Evgeny Morozov, The Internet, And The Failure Of Invective
@my_piru oh believe you me, I don't disagree with you. It's not the invective I have trouble with, it's the low-grade quality of the discourse, its banality, and the failure to take aim at the correct target (which, my view, is the I Got Mine variety of unprincipled rent-seeking capitalists, and those are scarcely confined to Silicon Valley, alas.)
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On Nobel Literature Laureates, In Order
Has the author read at least one book by each entrant? because this is crazy (of the ones I've read, which ain't all of 'em.)
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On "The Exquisite Corpse Project": A Movie About When Your Friendships Go Horribly Wrong
Thoroughly enjoyable!! Despite surface appearances (incl. sexy shoplifting, poisonings, demonic possession) it is a very delicate and thoughtful commentary on ambition, and on the friendship of the mens.
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On Take An Internet Break To Learn This One Thing About A Popular Web Browser That Turns 20 Today [PHOTO]
@BadUncle ha, so true. Can't remember my gigantic handle there. To say nothing of Usenet!! alt.blabbin But for this user, Prodigy was the first thing that really felt like The Internet.
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On Take An Internet Break To Learn This One Thing About A Popular Web Browser That Turns 20 Today [PHOTO]
All true, and yet. AOL and Prodigy were been founded in the mid-1980s and each had hundreds of thousands of users by then. The thing was, if you were on Prodigy you could hang only with fellow Prodigy members, but not contact anyone on AOL. So these were closed systems, but they were teeming with action of all kinds, discussion boards, games, journalism, the beginnings of blogging. (I met my husband on one of the literature boards there! He had the nerve to complain about Flaubert's Parrot I could NOT believe.)
When Mosaic and Netscape came out, you could hardly wrap your head around the idea that everyone would be able to talk with everyone, it was so obviously such a monumental, life-altering thing. But by then the habit of staring slackjawed at the screen for hours every day was well established among the geeks.
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On Killer Cops And Newspaper Wars On The California Coast
So good NOOOO DON'T LEAVE USSSSSS NOOOOOO
SO SO good.
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On Twitter Stomps Out Micropayments
I am SO MISERABLE about this. #ugh #bah
Also, what form would ill-intentioned Tweet Action payments take?
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On Men Suddenly Abandon Socks!
I agree about these (unisex) socks.
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On How To Be Old: Two Women, Their Husbands, Their Cats, Their Alchemy
Beard, or wig? (either preferable to wearing trousers rolled.)
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On Noel Fielding Is 40
loved him too (so MUCH) on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.