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Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Daily Hilarity: Your Guide To Internet Dating And Terminology

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Mystery Google

This is kind of neat, it’s called “Mystery Google” and you type in your search term but instead of getting your results you get the results of the person who searched just before you did.  For my token searches I used “Camels With Hammers” as my phrase of course in hopes that the next Mystery [...]

The Future Of Philosophy Publishing

Fascinating speculations from Graham Harman: Until very recently, the mere act of getting a book published was difficult enough that it carried a certain automatic prestige, provided that you weren’t publishing with some obvious fly-by-night sort of firm or a known vanity press. But of course there was and is still a certain hierarchy among [...]

Wikipedia Is Written By Bitter Losers

Nicholas Carr on “sour Wikipedians”: In their report on the results of the study, the scholars paint a picture of Wikipedians as social maladapts who “feel more comfortable expressing themselves on the net than they do off-line” and who score poorly on measures of “agreeableness and openness.” Noting that the findings seem in conflict with [...]