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Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’

great examination of the iOS generation of casual games. Misses the Wii / DS in its cursory history though. Be sure to play the minigame. (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)

games culture iphone
7 weeks ago by dsankey

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Movie academy: Oscar voters overwhelmingly white, male

"Oscar voters are nearly 94% Caucasian and 77% male" and "have a median age of 62"

film usa culture
february 2012 by dsankey

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Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?

This was stuck in my Instapaper list for ages. You've probably already read it.

culture facebook futuremedia
september 2011 by dsankey

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Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance

rare is something people don't access, as opposed to can't access (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)

ideas web culture
august 2011 by dsankey

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What is the post-cinematic?
film ideas culture
august 2011 by dsankey

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Human Cloning in Japan

one of the implications of 3D printing tech is that you can make an action figure of yourself.

tech japan culture
july 2011 by dsankey

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Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War

"In Rohrer’s mind, his game would share many qualities with religion—a holy ark, a set of commandments, a sense of secrecy and mortality and mystical anticipation. This was the idea, anyway, before things started to get weird. Before Chain World, like religion itself, mutated out of control."

games culture religion
july 2011 by dsankey

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There's No Wrong Way to Play Monopoly

Waxy on the history of the board game

games culture history
july 2011 by dsankey

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The Disposable Woman

About Sheen's history of abusing women. Also from <a href="http://waxy.org">waxy</a>

culture celebrity
march 2011 by dsankey

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Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die

Patton Oswalt on the 'apopcalypse' - "A billion years after our sun burns out, a race of intelligent ice crystals will build a culture based on dialog from The Princess Bride." (via <a href="http://whatadaythatwas.blogspot.com">What a Day That Was</a>)

culture nerd geek internet
december 2010 by dsankey

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the economy as heard in music that sounds like a nosedive back into the uterus, or getting into Baths

Pitchfork Reviews Reviews on the economic underpinnings of chillwave music

music economics culture
november 2010 by dsankey

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2010 Atkinson Series: Northern Lights

Kate Taylor does a series for The Star about Canadian Culture. Haven't read it yet, but it looks good.

canada culture
september 2010 by dsankey

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Geek Studies » Scott Pilgrim vs. the Cultural Critique

"the pop culture image of the nerd is finally catching up to the self-image of the nerd"

nerd film culture
august 2010 by dsankey

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Are we really in a cultural golden age?

Interesting. With the exception of TV (undeniably, a great number of amazing shows have occurred over the last decade thanks to cable original production), I'd agree with the first point and less so the latter: that essentially we've always been in a golden age, but innovation in distribution has only now made the bulk of the work widely available.

art tv culture ideas
june 2010 by dsankey

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Does the Internet Make You Smarter?

Clay Shirky fights the enemies of the innernette

culture futuremedia internet ideas
june 2010 by dsankey

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Daft Punk in some boring adidas World Cup Commercial forced mega meme

Interesting take on the Star Wars - Adidas - World Cup promo video (which is embedded for your convenience). Essentially Hipster Runoff is not feeling it because it's a corporate meme and not something grassroots. I can see that, but also: this is better than your typical ad. I like that Lucasfilm is allowing this sort of work. Not sure that 'celebrate originality' is a great tagline for a work of extremely parasitic pastiche, though. (HR found via <a href="http://whatadaythatwas.blogspot.com/">What A Day That Was</a>)

scifi youtube culture ads
june 2010 by dsankey

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The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But Fixable

Michael Geist on the new bill.

canada culture copyright
june 2010 by dsankey

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More Critics React to the ‘Lost’ Finale

some critical reaction. Mixed would be the word.

lost tv scifi culture
may 2010 by dsankey

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PMO Issues The Order: Canadian DMCA Bill Within Six Weeks

a step backward for copyright law in Canada

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Canada's Batman of the Balkans

This just came up at work and while I was sure I had posted it when it was first published, I couldn't find it in my bookmarks or on my site. It's about an unknown Canadian actor who's huge in Serbia for a show he did in the 90s called Tropical Heat. Great read.

celebrity comedy politics culture
march 2010 by dsankey

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Gang Signs

who doesn't love gang signs?

crime culture
october 2009 by dsankey

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4 Billion Photos

Ram on recent art photo vs. Flickr debates

photo art culture web
october 2009 by dsankey

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Rich Germans demand higher taxes

sounds like an Onion article.