In the old days, the secret language of homosexuality snuck into the stage acts and elicited laughter from people who had, for the most part, little notion of the implications of the terms. In the modern era, we’ve seen the same thing as lolcats and other memes have surfaced from the darkest pits of the [...]
The internet, it has its uses. Finding distant cousins, extending the life of games through mods, keeping up with news, providing reading material.
Right, imagine for a moment that I spend a great deal of my day stuck behind six feet of monitors doing mystic black art reservoir engineering. My coworkers have visitors and long phone conversations, thus I have some very fine sound-blocking earphones and an iPod that is approaching brushed steel effect through wear.
Watching a merry band of pirates rip shred what was supposed to be the new business model for content creation – the Dr. Horrible ‘free for a time, then pay to download’ – I wondered what *is* the thinking on how one should get media to pay? I remember the Naked one giving a big [...]