meme culture
Propaganda Posters For the Social Network War
You may have heard that we're in the midst of a war. A war between superpowers hellbent on global domination. A war in which you, my friend, must play your part, take sides, and once there, share as many links as you can. And don't even think of asking...
If Apes Are Getting Smarter, What's In Store For US?
Humans test a lot of stuff on primates. One of the reasons we do it is to get a better idea of how we would react to often ludicrous experiments, like getting "launched into outer space":http://motherboard.tv/2010/7/29/monkey-nauts-five-great-space...
With Members Jailed in Spain and Turkey, Is Anonymous Growing Up?
A string of arrests involving members of the online “hacktivist” (groan) group Anonymous have been making headlines as of late.
Finally, the CDC Acknowledges Zombies Before It's Too Late
Well, if you're a firm believer in the walking dead like myself, you already know that "May is Zombie Awareness Month":http://www.zombieresearch.org/zombieawarenessmonth.html. If not, then you may already be among the plodding, braindead masses...
The Profitable Piracy Argument
To what extent can a thing be an advertisement for itself? It’s an old copyright debate and one generally lost by consumers, but one red-hot in these here days of internetting, when you can have a thing quite easily digitally, with no physical – or...
How To Scream Doomsday In the Internet Age
The whole Harold Camping / Family Radio / end-of-days thing is probably more fascinating than it should be, at least to me. I imagine that this doesn’t have much saturation outside of the U.S., so here’s a quick recap:
New U.S. Censorship Bill Is A Copyright Troll's Best Friend
Remember "COICA":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counterfeits_Act, that nauseating piece of legislation proposed last year that sought to remake the Internet in the interest of protecting all those poor, mistreated...
George Lucas Owns the Universe: A Timeline of Star Wars Copyright Battles
As Star Wars tributes go, this one was a real monster. "AT-AT For America":http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/ was a tumblr aimed at trying to build a giant, working AT-AT -- the mammoth robot dog-looking thing that appears in _The Empire Strikes Back...
Write 500 Words About Nothing, Use the Words "Apple" and "iPhone," Get One Million Views
"A recent article":http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-28/tech/iphone.6.rumors_1_iphone-android-phones-apple-insider?_s=PM:TECH by CNN Tech blogger John Sutter makes the claim that, despite Apple's recent release of a white iPhone 4 (and kudos to Apple, by...
The Science of Facebook Likes, the Viral Web, and Charlie Sheen: a Q+A With Yury Lifshits
A few weeks ago, "Yury Lifshits":http://yury.name/, a young scientist at the Web-obsessed data den "Yahoo! Labs":http://labs.yahoo.com/, quietly published the "Like Log Study":http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/4/7/what-you-like-isn-t-what-you-re-like-the...
BBC's Human Planet Analyzes the "Douche"
It's nice to see the BBC aiming its microscope at a specimen that we know so well, and yet so rarely care to think about. Especially if we are that specimen. But it all makes sense, really, that we should: "Lashing out towards other innocent humans...