The Sigil Begins
...This is a sigil. I'll be plain about that from the outset. I am carving out a space in the data sphere for something special to take place....
Get real
...capture it. Egan doesn't anticipate the Web 2.0 wave of capturing immaterial labor with seductive "sharing" peer-to-peer platforms, or the Big Data approach of capturing everything and sorting out the...
Not for Prophet
...power surge, followed by the local forecast playing on continuous loop. With fondness, they recall the late-’90s commercials featuring a fictional bar called The Front—where face-painted diehards watched TWC as...
Sunday Reading
...r>g: NBA Owner Sterling from 2005 $500 million net worth to $1900 million today. Watch the big internet companies further consolidate dominance. Search engines as invisible power. Robot Bartleby's as...
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...intelligence committee and had access to data confirming the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. She would nonetheless vote for––and be a vocal proponent of––the invasion that would...
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
...Johnny Rotten’s adenoidal snarl. Discharge’s revamped version of punk bore little resemblance to anything that had come before. It was faster, harsher, and often almost entirely lacking in melody. The...
Spook'd
...art and criticism online. I have yet to figure out how to translate Spook to the web in a creative way. Although, a digital version of the magazine will be...
Will the Real Amelia Peabody Please Stand Up?
...a modernized version of the lady Egyptologist. Like all good historical fiction, and part of the reason fans love Peabody, the series prompts readers to learn more about the little-known...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...to know how a synthesized version of my personal scent would smell, and 2) The company is counting on this exact mix of curiosity and narcissism to pull a profit....
Personal Ads
...“C2." Because Coke used the name, July later got a check in the mail for $25,000. An earlier version of this story suggested this happened in the 80s. Miranda July...
Mexican Is Not a Race
Poet Wendy Trevino argues that a radical new Chicanx politics means forging an identity based on shared political struggle, not myths of racial homogeneity--an idea rooted in anarchist struggles along the Texas-Mexican border a century ago
Growing Up TV
...but the pair also enjoyed a relatively gentle version of cultural misplacement as black kids who didn’t exactly act like anyone’s conception of black kids: too smart, too funny, too...
Mirror Binge
...don't write about this much on here for a variety of reasons, but I have a history of disordered eating. (If you're interested, you can read my ladymag version of...
“I do wish mother had a boudoir:” Hertha Ayrton’s Home Laboratory
...candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto. Her current research explores the visual culture of technology throughout the 19th century. *Correction: A previous version incorrectly stated IEEE as...
The Streets of Spain
...a buck by dressing up as Spongebob, Chewbacca, and the Shrek version of Puss in Boots. Capital remains the zombie that just won’t go down: “no consumismo” lasted for a...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...I don't remember. But I like it! Control patrol: Two nice posts on bodies and control this week. Sally writes a sort of Serenity Prayer version of body acceptance, about...