penned by bharat, about the testing grouplet. bharat++
Tag: culture
Age of Speed
a moronic book for soccer moms, but still, the accelerando meme is taking hold.
Halo in Church
empty church tries halo to lure reluctant youth for their pitch
Nanny State
a torrent of infantilising laws, regulations, and litigation was unleashed, much of it promoted by single-issue advocacy groups and trial lawyers with a direct financial interest in the outcome
ie, the safety fetish
Girl games
Ubisoft have a series of games about to come out for girls. Entitled “Imagine”, there’s a spark of hope .. but it turns out that the series is going to primarily consist of shopping, fashion, animals and babies. Oh yes. But the worst bit about this is, not really the fact that there are going to be shopping games – WoW is at least 40% shopping, frankly – or fashion games (ditto), but that Ubisoft seem to think that this is only what girls like
shaping up the next generation suburban breeders
World Moustache Championships
why are they not at the olympics?
Germany vs China
Here is an interesting iconic cultural comparison done by Liu Yang, a Chinese-born designer, who was born in 1976, then emigrated to Germany with his family when he was 13. Blue is Germany; Red is China.
Americans giving up friends, sex for Web
People told us how anxious, isolated and bored they felt when they are forced off line
+1
LOLcats
Mr. Nakagawa’s simple Web site has become the center of the “LOLcats” phenomenon, a booming online subculture built around digital images and deliberately bad grammar. There’s not much to it: Take a digital photo — often one of household pets, particularly cats — and purposefully place misspelled text on top. Anyone with elementary skills in Adobe’s Photoshop or Microsoft’s Paint software can make their own. Nearly 9 months after launching icanhascheezburger.com, Mr. Nakagawa’s site receives around 200K unique visitors and a 500K page views each day.
hat tip to the new owner or trying to be more attuned to the times?
Modified people
how long before humanity splits into clades? #1 is pretty close already..
Gregor J. Rothfuss 