Whips With Friends
...smell right, and that’s not something around which anyone can build a website or social community. Sex forces us to be surprised by one another and to surprise ourselves, eluding...
Freedom Industry
...water, people die. Without water to wash in, people become dirty hillbillies, whose water can be poisoned. Freedom means you can tell nine counties in West Virginia not to use...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...audience of low drives, we never once glimpse the world at large, where they supposedly languish and die young. We never get any sense of a rather important point: is...
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...they tried other things. Lang made me hopelessly insane by the end of the first film, then let me die in my pajamas midway through the second. Shameful. Although most...
Data Occupations
...a collection of links to local groups’ Meetup.com pages on the Quantified Self website, no one is keeping track of participation in Quantified Self writ large. Even attendance numbers for...
Cookie Cutters
...modern website. A website comprises multiple heterogeneous streams: its main editorial content (usually provided by the site itself), its tracking software for internal analytics, and advertisements from third-party external advertising...
Not for Prophet
...to the news on Facebook, TWC’s website, and other comment forums with varying levels of derision. “Name overload,” wrote one commenter. “These names for everything are way over the top,”...
Fitted
...It cross-references this data with what you tell the website about your gender, height, weight, and age to calculate how many steps, stairs, and calories you have walked, climbed, and...
Great Dads
...Great Dad for Dummies, the brain child of the three New Zealand–based entrepreneurs, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, and Eric Mooij, who launched the website DIYFather.com after recognizing "the need for...
Health Equity Capture
How the weight-loss industry Uses Black celebrity in the Ozempic era
All Housing Doesn’t Matter
An interview with Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Natural's Not In It
...and all of its freedom-thwarting attributes, are a consequence of a grain-based agricultural society. The low-fi libertarian website LewRockwell.com features pages upon pages of articles about the Paleo lifestyle written...
The Last Cat
...faces America.” In hindsight of course it is clear that the day’s most historically significant launch was that of the website ICanHasCheezburger.com, though it would be months before the establishment...
Conspicuous Consumption
...be born blind. That was the idea behind the (now defunct) vegan-run website Exvegans.com, which listed ex-vegans by state, with snide comments about their Judas-like betrayals of the animals, and...
Canceled Message (Part Three)
...And it was in the position of doing something that I’ve long avoided, including avoiding having an artist website, for exactly the same misgivings of archiving yourself, but I kept...