Category: technology / video games
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Why Twitter is Stupid and How to Make it Smarter
Twitter, I love you, but sometimes you are a total fucking douchetard. I feel like I’m pointing out an elephant in a room, or that an emperor who thinks he has invisible clothes is actually naked (hey someone should write a story about that), but Twitter, here are some things about you that are stupid,…
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Book Review: For the Win, by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow‘s upcoming young adult novel, For the Win (or FTW), may not sound all that interesting on the surface. At its core, this is a book about economics and the formation of unions. Boooring. Yet Doctorow weaves an intense story around these potentially dry topics, resulting in one of the most riveting books I’ve…
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Fun With Maps
Google Maps released their Street View service in London yesterday. This allows you to zoom in to ground level and view an area as if you were driving down the street. Anyone who happened to be in the area when the Street View van took these pictures is now immortalized on camera. Of course I…
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