I finally got around to looking at the new community features on Netflix this morning. There’s some interesting stuff they’re trying to do here that I can’t help but think would work better with a more open model for social graphs. It was only a month or so ago that I found that a couple [...]

I really want some one to do a feminist deconstruction of the the game: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble. No really. I honestly have no idea what to think about it. None at all. Tags: game

I’m pretty sure that any service/interface that features the ability to selectively share content with only those you wish has a pretty big flaw when displaying something like this: I am pretty certain that this is just a blip on LJ’s system that accidentally let it through but I am not precisely in the best [...]

I’ve always found sense memories to be terribly interesting phenomena. My most intense sense memory involves the texture and flavor of pancakes with butter and apricot syrup at a Perkins somewhere near what I think was Omaha when I was somewhere around the age of 7ish. I think we were coming home from a funeral [...]

At this point I think the inherent advantage of acquiring recorded music solely through the means of traveling to a brick and mortar storefront, perusing the incredibly over complicated system to locate likely albums that I might like to purchase, physically bringing the stack of shiny plastic to the cashier with my own hands and [...]

An important portion of my close friends recently found Twitter so I’ve decided to make the effort to re-create my account and use it. The core service is just about as consistent and stable as I remember it being last year, but I do have to say that the web site seems to be incredibly [...]