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...like several other new online gambling sites, plans to accept Bitcoin when it launches later this month. […] Developed in 2009 by a mysterious programmer known as Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoins...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...with likeminded people. That is the only thing that makes it worth it to me. But online fame is also a cesspool of resentful souls who really have way too...
Neither Fish Nor Flesh
...mermaid tails online — you can buy inexpensive fabric ones, medium-priced latex ones, or elaborate, true-to-life silicone ones that will put you out a few thousand dollars — and the...
Living is Easy
...bars in Snowpiercer. And what about Snowpiercer? Is this the thinking viewer’s exception to the rule? A popular hit with brains too? For all the hard work underpaid online writers...
Fragments on microcelebrity
...once reserved for artists and aesthetes has been democratized -- now we can all treat our friends like characters in our online roman à clef! Only most artists don't seem...
Discipline and Pleasure
...free. FOR those blissfully unaware, Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), which is a strategy-game subgenre somewhere between MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World...
TNI Rex (3)
...the Belgian filmmaker ever produced. You'll have trouble finding it online, so you're best bet is to rent Criterion's deluxe edition of Slacker, a two-DVD set that includes It's Impossible...
The Ladies Vanish
...denied pay and receives a lower online rating, making it harder to obtain future work on the site. But the legal structure of Mechanical Turk is such that Amazon can...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 106
...cash machines in Poland are to be given 'Finger Vein' technology Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming Forget ‘the Cloud’; ‘the Fog’ Is Tech’s Future Shopping online: Why...
Vol. 25 Editors' Note: H8
...comes at a cost. It is particularly expensive for women, who are guaranteed misogynist hate mail upon achieving any online prominence. As trolls and cyberbullies emerge as society’s new bêtes...
Naming Nameless
...was underwritten by the hours I clocked for research: Five hours a day online — at least — every day of the week. I tuned into seven to ten IRC...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...readers like me who follow online first, is its proximity and, as you write early on, its polyphony. For example, I've connected to scenes in Robert Bresson movies I'm actually...
What nudists do during a lockdown
...Fenn posted clues to the treasures whereabouts online and in a 24-line poem that was published in his 2010 autobiography The Thrill of the Chase. Hundreds of thousands have hunted...
Hate Sinks
...way to cement the bond between reader and news brand, but are ipso facto democratizing. The online expression of voice, political participation, and democracy are smoothly, unproblematically equated. In an...
Triple-Decker Weekly
...more than $1 million worth of LSD, ecstasy, and other narcotics with an online storefront that used the TOR anonymity service to mask their Internet addresses. [Ars Technica] Human-made earthquakes...
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...past More than eight out of 10 people surveyed online admitted to sexting in the prior year, according to new research Ashley Madison created more than 70,000 female bots to...