Living offline for 90 days
Yahoo contributor Brad Sylvester interviews Jake Reilly, who just finished a digital sabbatical. Could you live without daily electronic conveniences -- Twitter, Facebook, email, texting and more --
Are cell phones not handheld kill-bots in disguise after all?
Science writer Alice Walton argues that new research indicates that cellphones might not be the dangers we think. Brain tumors, car accidents, and virtual sex contact: Cell phones
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At Peets Coffee this morning. via flickr
The criticism of One Laptop Per Child, in cartoon form
This from OLPC News is great:
Is sharing the new creativity? I don’t think so
Felix Salmon, who normally is really very smart, had a line in a recent post about sharing and the rise of Tumblr that's been stuck in my throat:
FarmVille: As cool, and as social, as writing chain letters
Benjamin Jackson, a New York-based game designer and writer, has a terrific essay in The Atlantic arguing that "too many video games treat players like rats in a
Another data-point from the intersection of technology and religion
From Failblog: see more epicfails
A data-point against the idea of digital natives
The concept of the digital native bothers me for some reason. A tiny little bit of it might be "you kids get off my lawn" curmudgeonliness. Mainly it's
Different animals playing with iPads: The video you’ve been waiting for
Kind of peripheral to my project, but still, hilarious. (It's even funnier than the "Baby Thinks a Magazine is an iPad That Doesn't Work.")
“What really changed my life was my decision to write every day”
Heather Donohue, who by an absolute cosmic law must be referred to as the star of the Blair Witch Project, has a new book out about her leaving