Talking More Twilight
Gabe Lezra hits a nerve when he writes about the white man’s burden in Twilight and New Moon and wonders why there’s no Team Bella and the comments at The Wesleyan Argus are all kerfuffled.
Time Your Pee Break
Need to know when it’s safe to go at the movies? RunPee.com does the calculating so you don’t have to. (Thanks, Ian!)
The Eternal Game Backlog
Tales of the Rampant Coyote extols the virtues of waiting to buy a game: “Them’s that wait long enough years get the ‘Platinum Pack’ with all the expansions fully integrated in and patched to the latest level for a big discount.”
“Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion”
What is “Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion?” It’s a digital art exhibit on the back of a trailer in Australia. “Eight artists from five countries have mashed together snippets of online culture – chatrooms, Second Life, online dream journals, first person shooters and more – to make some interesting […]
Clashing with Star Wars
Two items where Star Wars runs up against participatory culture: the completely awesome Animals with Lightsabers and the completely logical one-off joke The Hook.
The Gamer Generation’s Parenting Style
In Properly Molding the Gamer Child: “I strongly encourage both girls’ fascination with Pokemon. Pokemon provide fulfillment to every human being’s basic desire to have an army of monsters. Also, Pokemon spend all their time fighting each other, which is good. For what other reason would one want […]
The Cultural Gutter 