Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
...viral data with which to feed its own sickness, it chews on itself for days before regurgitating its own guts in a feedback loop of 24-bit RGB rainbows. Nowadays, it’s...
Gamifying Beauty
...better-made-up version of myself, the most pervasive feeling I had was not of self-abasement but of extraordinary fatigue. It was like I’d spent 12 hours proofreading a dissertation on, I...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...listen to this analyst and drop their attempts at fragrance and color cosmetics, Oil of Ulay will be all the more important to the beauty behemoth.) Faking it: The...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...and your ads by striking lucrative partnerships with Microsoft, Yahoo, and other search-engine providers. It’s going to get two of those whether you like it or not. Why should business...
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
Of Being Numerous
...at stake. Bipartisan lawmaker cohorts have demanded an end to the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ communications data; the preposterously named USA Freedom Act is gaining traction primarily on this...
Consultancy Rock
...meritocrats among its fan base that power, coldly and clinically deployed, is the best way to redeem awkwardness. An early version of this essay originally appeared at Generation Bubble...
Upping the Antihero
...powers is a self-aware version of this same story. Police consultant is the perfect job for a cop who doesn’t want to play by a cop’s rules. As with the...
Own to Rent
...the long-running SimCity franchise, was supposed to be available for download and play on March 5, 2013. The download part mostly worked. The play part did not. The problems were...
The Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2
...click the image or link below to download Download the Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2 here. I only agreed to write this...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 65: Jobs
...special project features Francis Tseng’s dystopian simulator The Founder, which, like some jobs, you can download on your phone. “Whether we arrive at a utopian world without work or a...
Jobs
...special project features Francis Tseng’s dystopian simulator The Founder, which, like some jobs, you can download to play on your phone. “Whether we arrive at a utopian world without work...
Postcards From Si Kenya
...The planners did not consult the local people. The alternate route will go around the outside of the islands, in the open ocean, exposed to the full force of winds...
The Road to Garissa
...5,000 Kenyan Somalis: "Survivors have told the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission how they were forced to strip naked and to lie on the ground. They were held for five...
Sunday Reading
...an informal, cooperative economic community. Today they're bound together by Bint Battuta. Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932 [podcast] Poetas castellanos del Sáhara 19th-century Circassophilia Ottoman Palestine: The History...
Blogging the Caine, 2013
...(all of which are available for download as pdfs at that link). Join us! Some of us are academics, most of us are not, but all of us are basically...