During the excavations that took place this past week while Brooke and I moved, I found this ancient relic from the past. My “cyberspace companion” featured some helpful articles. My favourite was “Six Myths: Unmasking Cyber Lore”:
Myth 1: The Internet is a single network controlled by one organization.
Fact: The Internet is actually a patchwork of […]
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The statement “In New York City, someone stole the penis of a chocolate Jesus” is not true; the source was a satire website that was mistakenly thought to be a genuine news source. Harper’s Weekly apologizes for the error.
Harper’s Weekly is an email with a bunch of odd news mixed in with more serious stuff. […]
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Harper’s is going from strength to strength recently, taking on the Iraq war with ferocity and honesty. Here are the last two paragraphs of an article about torture entitled “What We’ve Lost” by William Pfaff that appears in the November 2005 issue:
International illegality, the deliberate repudiation of international law, and torture, gratuitously employed in defiance […]
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A look back at a landmark game, first released in (gasp!) 1990. Soon to follow were Duke Nukem and Doom. I’d almost forgotten this little treasure. (via actsofvolition)
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I was reading an article by Alex Ross in this week’s New Yorker about German philosopher and music critic Theodor Adorno when I was stopped cold by the following paragraph:
Tragically, Adorno was himself a victim of the shock tactics of pop culture. In April, 1969, a group of female activists interrupted his lecture “An Introduction […]
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Jason posted some interesting stuff today about Esperanto. It’s a language invented more than a hundred years ago, and it was supposed to be a universal worldwide “second language” so that we could all communicate. Sadly, it continues to have only about 2 million speakers. I’ve been fascinated by the concept for years, though. So […]
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