Deep Thinker Clay Shirky has posted " A Rant About Women ," which explores the notion that men tend to be more comfortable with assertive, self-promotey behavior than their female peers. Shirky thoughtfully argues that this is a big factor conspiring ...

feed item - whytewolf - 01/19/2010 - 20:07 - 0 comments

For many years we've questioned the logic of courts banning people from the internet for committing some sort of internet crime (mostly commonly sexual offenses online). Many courts have decided that it's ridiculous to ban people from the ...

feed item - whytewolf - 01/13/2010 - 09:12 - 0 comments

A psychology professor at Bennington College thinks terms like "nerd" and "geek" are damaging , like racial epithets, and need to be banned. Ironically, Dr. David Anderegg is also the author of a book called Nerds: who they are and why we need more of ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/21/2009 - 10:21 - 0 comments

Important educational video that documents the rise of Om Nom Nom and its meaning in culture. Includes early footage of Cookie Monster in a training video for IBM. I watched it with my cat, Red, and he seemed enthralled. Of ...

feed item - whytewolf - 12/18/2009 - 11:19 - 0 comments

Popular one-deal-a-day bargain finder website Woot has just launched a new section, deals.Woot, which instead of featuring one good deal chosen by Woot staffers, features a list of great deals found and voted on by Woot users. TechCrunch's ...

feed item - whytewolf - 11/24/2009 - 12:00 - 0 comments

Farhad Manjoo writes in to tell us about his Slate series looking back on Y2K, ten years later, "In the first part, which is up now, I look into how Y2K changed the tech industry, and whether it was all a waste. In the second I look at the unacknowledged ...

feed item - whytewolf - 11/12/2009 - 09:54 - 0 comments

Here's an update to story I've been following since 2006 about a woman who was denied custody of her 10-year-old son after a judge saw photos of her participating in a SubGenius holiday (an adult-rated parody of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the ...

feed item - whytewolf - 10/09/2009 - 11:06 - 0 comments

I'm doing a live audio- and text-chat today at 3PM EDT with Internet Evolution's new IE Radio program. Hope to chat with you! Cory Doctorow, blogger, Boing Boing --> (Audio, Blogger, Blogs, Boing Boing, CDATA, Cory ...

feed item - whytewolf - 09/21/2009 - 05:31 - 0 comments

Although you may have committed yourself to keeping your mouth shut unless you absolutely had something critical to add to a business meeting, you may be doing yourself a disservice. Frequent talkers are perceived as more intelligent and competent. ...

feed item - whytewolf - 09/10/2009 - 06:30 - 0 comments

Holy awesomesauce, there is some incredibly fantastic stuff in the B3ta steampunk remix challenge. Shown here, "Fornication Sidearms" by The Great Architect) and "Amazon 1821" by Tonsil. Steampunk Challenge ( Thanks, Fipi Lele! ) ...

feed item - whytewolf - 09/04/2009 - 22:33 - 0 comments