Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Jaycee’s Alleged Kidnapper on Google Street View?
Few could imagine a more chilling tale of depravity than the story that has emerged over the last few days concerning the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard.
Monday, March 23, 2009
I Can Has Internet Millions
For the Web’s cognoscenti, the lolcats fad is so over. I Can Has Cheezburger, the site that sparked captioned-cat-picture mania, launched in January 2007. The online world’s early adopters learned about the phenomenon that February, when Boing Boing first linked to the site. Over the next few months, lolcats showed up in Gawker, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and Time. Last October, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami, the site’s founders, published “I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun,” a book that spent 13 weeks on the New York Times paperback best-seller list.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Parent of Gamer Asks His Son to Honor the Geneva Conventions
My friend told me an amazing story about his son and games. He didn’t feel comfortable with his son playing Call of Duty, which is rated T for teenager, so they agreed on a compromise. Well, sort of.
Friday, October 10, 2008
The Daily Beast’s Burden
Early every morning, I open my Web browser and load up a half-dozen “aggregator” sites: Techmeme, Memeorandum, Real Clear Politics, Google News, the Drudge Report, and the Huffington Post. This is my first sortie into the day’s news, the way I orient myself to what’s going on in the world now that I no longer subscribe to a print newspaper.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
“Intellectual Property” Is a Silly Euphemism
“Intellectual property” is one of those ideologically loaded terms that can cause an argument just by being uttered. The term wasn’t in widespread use until the 1960s, when it was adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, a trade body that later attained exalted status as a UN agency. WIPO’s case for using the term is easy to understand: People who’ve “had their property stolen” are a lot more sympathetic in the public imagination than “industrial entities who’ve had the contours of their regulatory monopolies violated,” the latter being the more common way of talking about infringement until the ascendancy of “intellectual property” as a term of art.
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