December 2011
26 posts
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Nerds and Male Privilege →
Geek society prides itself on being explicitly counter-culture; nerds will crow about how, as a society, they’re better than the others who exclude them. They’ll insist that they’re more egalitarian; geeks hold tight to the belief that geek culture is a meritocracy, where concepts of agism, sexism and racism simply don’t exist the way it does elsewhere. And yet, even a cursory examination will...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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"HUMAN INTELLIGENCE: A HOLIDAY TALE" →
Sci-Fi Radio Drama This is what Kurt Andersen considers a holiday tale … melting ice caps and extraterrestrial spies? Kurt’s story, “Human Intelligence,” was produced for radio by Jonathan Mitchell, and stars Melanie Hoopes, John Ottavino, and Ed Herbstman. The unabridged version was published last year in Stories: All New Tales, an anthology edited by Neil Gaiman and Al...
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
– Frederic Brown’s short story, Knock (1948)
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Comic Book Writer & Editor Ann Nocenti on #OWS →
“Many people have trouble understanding the Occupy movement, because it is something quite new. It’s decentralized. It’s not a “protest” movement; it is amorphous, like the Internet. It is, in some ways, a lifestyle. It is supported by Union workers, sympathetic cops, the elderly, the rich, the poor, the right, the left… and, increasingly, by the “1%” themselves. It crosses all lines of...
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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“Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book....”
–  Ray Bradbury (in response to the question: What do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) You know, it’s funny. I love science fiction. I love futurism. But give me my damn books!
Dec 3rd
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