The first time I heard a mother of girls talk about the teenage oral-sex craze, I made her cry. The story she told me—about a bar mitzvah dinner dance on the North Shore of Chicago, where the girls serviced all the boys on the chartered bus from the temple to the reception hall—was so preposterous…

Linke Opposition in den USA: Wer besetzt Occupy? Nr. 21 – 24. Mai 2012 Das Label «Occupy» ist längst in Mode gekommen – so sehr, dass manche radikale AktivistInnen mittlerweile Exklusivität beanspruchen. Das jedoch verträgt sich schlecht mit den Grundsätzen einer offenen Bewegung. Von Occupy Wall…

Ein Gespenst geht um im Netz: „Anonymous“. Je nach Sichtweise handelt es sich um revolutionäre Helden, die gegen alles, was schlecht ist in der Welt, per Mausklick oder Rechnereinbruch aufbegehren, oder um pubertierende Störenfriede, die das Ausmaß ihrer Handlungen und Provokationen gar nicht…

My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. Illustration by Mark Matcho "Don't take anything that happens to you there personally," the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at…

Nate St. Pierre's web-friendly adventures with Honest Abe were literally too good to be true. Brian Fung It started with a headline I saw pinging around Twitter yesterday afternoon. Abraham Lincoln, my friends' tweets informed me, had invented a 19th-century version of Facebook. Yes! This previously…

T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. lisaquinn565.wordpress A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead…

Facebook not only is on course to go bust but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it. This story is part of our July/August 2012 issue See the rest of the issue Subscribe Given its vast cash reserves and the glacial pace of business reckonings, this assertion will sound exaggerated. But…

Science fiction has portrayed its fair share of glitchy and bumbling robots over the years, but none hold a candle to Invader Zim's GIR. Quite possibly the most erratic and unhelpful robot to ever hit

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Once a secret project, Google’s self-driving cars are now out in the open, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even inviting people to ride inside one of the robot vehicles as it raced around a closed course. Google’s fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now…

I am working on a dissertation about self-documentation and social media and have decided to take on theorizing the rise of faux-vintage photography (e.g., Hipstamatic, Instagram). To start fleshing out ideas, I am doing a three-part series on this blog: part one was posted Tuesday (“Hipstamatic and…

I am working on a dissertation about self-documentation and social media and have decided to take on theorizing the rise of faux-vintage photography (e.g., Hipstamatic, Instagram). I want to start fleshing out ideas and will do so with a three-part series on this blog: I posted part one yesterday…

I am working on a dissertation about self-documentation and social media and have decided to take on theorizing the rise of faux-vintage photography (e.g., Hipstamatic, Instagram). I want to start fleshing out ideas and will do so with a three-part series on this blog: I will post part two…

Yesterday, I was at the gym. ...Don't worry. This isn't a gym story. This is a story about a boy who needed to hear something important. But it happened at the gym. So that's why I started with the bit about being in the gym. If you were hoping for a gym story... Well, you could call this one if you…

26 April 2012 – Baldur Bjarnason A bit of an utopian fantasy but, I think, an essential one. We need visions of where we're heading with this. Everybody knows what it feels like. You’re thrown from crisis to crisis, locked into solving problems, resolving issues, keeping things from breaking down,…

When designing a secure service that stores user data, you might be temped to say “let’s make sure the data is encrypted.” That statement implies that you’re proposing adding goodness, without taking anything away. Something like “I’d like some of that delicious gravy on my roast turkey, please.”…

[Translations: Belarusian, Chinese, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish] The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a…

Meeko the calf stood nuzzling a pile of hay. He didn’t seem to have much appetite, and he looked a little bored. Every now and then, he glanced up, as though wondering why so many people with clipboar

Krieg in der Ukraine :Eine neue Dringlichkeit Nach dem Eklat im Weißen Haus werden die Sondierungen in Berlin noch schneller vorangetrieben als bisher geplant. Es geht vor allem ums Geld. Drei Optionen liegen auf dem Tisch. Von Daniel Brössler, Georg Ismar, Nicolas Richter und Henrike Roßbach Live…

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah's Wasatch Ran

"Hast du im Sommer können singen und pfeifen, so tu anjetzo im Winter tanzen und leide darneben gleichwohl Hunger; denn das Faulenzen bringt kein Brot ins Haus." Eine hochemotionale Debatte wird geführt um Urheberrecht und Internet. Vordergründig dreht sie sich darum, ob das Internet dem…

Atheist Voter Convention Latest News Magazine Legal Work Stand up for your rights American Atheists fights to protect the absolute separation of religion from government and raise the profile of atheism in the public discourse. Since 1963, American Atheists has been taking the principled and…

What Vicki could never have known was that her surgery would turn her into an accidental superstar of neuroscience. She is one of fewer than a dozen ‘split-brain’ patients, whose brains and behaviours have been subject to countless hours of experiments, hundreds of scientific papers, and…

For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlinin

Forget Your Past Buzludzha, Bulgaria Meanwhile… in Bulgaria January 2012 .. Over the years I’ve visited my fair share of abandoned buildings. They’ve always held a very strong attraction for me. Somehow, their silent decaying facades offer the perfect blank canvas for an introverted imagination like…

We can't keep our own fitness promises for the same reason that addicts are addicts and Congress can't pass deficit reduction Zurijeta /Shutterstock Every January, millions of Americans, brimming with optimism and a little extra belly from the holidays, commemorate the new year by making an…

Using a calendar and some very simple mathematics I’ve just calculated that exactly 10 years have passed since I first featured the following letter on the old Letters of Note blog, leading to some 3 million people visiting the website in the space of 24hrs to read about this incredible piece of…

The girl at the table opposite me is doing something very strange with her sandwich. She has cut it into exact quarters and is slowly, gingerly dissecting each one as if it were a bomb about to go off, removing the bread, wiping off the mayonnaise with a paper towel, piling the meat and lettuce into…

222267 5098144 Debatte um die Netzneutralität: Wer schraubt am Internet? Die europäischen Netzaufsichtsbehörden wollten wissen, wer wann in die Transportleitungen des Internets eingreift. Die Antworten, die sie bekamen, haben es in sich. 18.3.2012 15:35 Uhr Diesen Artikel teilen Um die sogenannte…

I am not an active user of so-called “AI-Assistants”, neither for coding nor writing nor research. I constantly test and evaluate those systems (for my private analyses as well as for my day job) but they don’t really integrate well with my workflow and thinking. There are many reasons for avoiding…

von Nick Lüthi 09.02.2012 Im Selbstbedienungsladen Die Schaffhauser Nachrichten drucken einen Blogbeitrag ab, ohne dafür die Autorin um Erlaubnis gebeten zu haben. Skandal! schallt es durchs Netz, umso mehr, weil sich Verleger und Chefredaktor Norbert Neininger für den besseren Schutz des geistigen…

G Gunter 21.08.2012, 08:19 Uhr Das klingt ja wie Faschismus ! Erschreckend in einer Demokratie. N Nick 25.04.2012, 19:45 Uhr Ich frage mich: In was für einem Staat leben wir hier? Zu welcher Zeit? Ist Hitler noch regierend und Homosexualität und Transsexualität ist ne "Krankheit" ?! Deutschland,…

Profiles The Apostate February 6, 2011 Asked how high he got in Scientology’s levels of study, Haggis said, “All the way to the top.”Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film…

Ein Deutscher verzehrt heute pro Jahr und Kopf 88,7 Kilo Fleisch und Fisch - das muss sich ändern. Nicht nur der Schweine zuliebe. (Foto: Foto: dpa) Mit der Entdeckung des Garens von Nahrung, mit Ackerbau und Viehzucht haben wir uns aus unserer Machtlosigkeit gegenüber der Natur befreit. Die…