GORDON: A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, it was suggested that Evan and I discuss fan fiction and its merits (or lack thereof).
Now I’m going to jump right into things by saying that not only do I not believe fan fiction is good, I do not feel it has the capacity to ever be so.
EVAN: Okay. Why? Continue reading
Posted in Evan and Gordon Talk, internet, literature, video games, writing, Youth
Tagged Alan Moore, arthur conan doyle, captain nemo, craft, deviantART, Dracula, fan fiction, fan fiction writers, fanfiction.net, ficiton, Halo, halo novels, Harry Potter, jane eyre, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, literature, Marvel, mmo, nemo, Odd Bedfellows, porn, prose, Sherlock Holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, slash, smut, Star Wars, StarCraft, story, style, Sumiyoshi, superbad, Superman, supernatural, technical, Tumblr, victorian, video games, videogames, WarCraft III, world of warcraft, writing
The vast majority of my generation was probably too young to remember the Patriot Act even being signed into existence. Hailed as a necessary evil in the so-called “war on terror,” this piece of legislation made sweeping attacks on the privacy of the people it was supposedly meant to protect. Rather than repeal the Orwellian hallmarks of the Bush administration, Obama expanded them.
Every time some new attack on our privacy is proposed, I find myself hoping that this, this, will be the line.
So far I’ve been hoping in vain. Continue reading
Posted in America, internet, news, politics
Tagged aaron schwartz, airport, body scanners, Bush, CISPA, Congress, cyber information sharing and protection act, drone, drones, full body scan, government, guantanamo, guantanamo bay, house, indefinite detention, invasion, invasion of privacy, kill list, NDAA, Obama, Patriot Act, PIPA, prison, Privacy, rapiscan, Senate, senators, SOPA, unmanned drones, war on terror
I’ve made it a habit not to report on a lot of the bigger news events due to the fact that, with so many people writing about them, someone is bound to have already said what I want to, and probably much more eloquently as well. When it comes to something as thoroughly horrific as the Boston Marathon bombing, I’m even more hesitant to do so, especially because of how delicate a topic it truly is.
I write this post with a great amount of trepidation, and with the hope that I can add to the discourse that’s resulted from this tragedy.
The following image appeared in my Facebook feed this past Monday, April 15th, and I immediately shared it upon reading it. I did this as a knee-jerk reaction to the sentiment communicated, and in spite of the fact that, as a friend of mine commented, “it says it in a stupid and borderline offensive way.”
This was posted soon after the bombing, long before the third victim had passed away.
Posted in America, Canada, internet, media, morality, news, politics, religion
Tagged Africa, attention, bomb, bombing, Boston, Boston Marathon, car bomb, collectively, death, explosion, Facebook, grief, human race, humanity, Imgur, introspective, Iraq, Joker, media, media attention, middle-east, MIT, mourn, news, Sandy Hook, Shooting, Steubenville, terrorism, tragedy, war
When Gordon first introduced the concept of Shame Day and Fame Day posts it was to keep them short and sweet, and I’m going to try to stick to that as midnight is fast approaching.
When looking at my reddit homepage I can see that underneath the karma [fake internet points] that I have garnered it reads that I have been a redditor for a total of 11 months, and as such I think I can probably more or less comment on the site as a whole.
My first post about the site was admittedly more in line with Shame Day posts, and since then I’ve been quick to point out the site’s flaws to others, practically rejoicing when Anderson Cooper caused the shutdown of a section of the site dedicated to pictures of underage girls. Events like that, along with the mob mentality so prevalent in many threads and the tendency for redditors to somehow consider themselves superior to other internet users makes it very easy to judge Reddit as a whole.
Today, however, I’d like to look at the good that comes out of it. Continue reading
Posted in Fame Day, internet, morality, news, pornography, science, sex
Tagged ABC News, Anderson Cooper, Fame Day, goodness, hivemind, mob mentality, news, pizza, pornography, r/aww, r/jailbait, r/random_acts_of_pizza, r/rape, r/science, r/worldnews, Random Acts of Pizza, rape, reddit, redditor, selfless, site, subreddit, support, website
I am not a fan of Margret Thatcher.
Most people aren’t.
While you do have to recognize Thatcher’s accomplishment in being Britain first female prime minister (that’s one heck of a milestone, no matter where you stand), you really can’t help but wish the first female prime minister of Britain would actually be a good leader, rather than a nationalistic psychopath.
Beating unarmed bystanders- just one of the many accomplishments of the Thatcher years…
Posted in bizarreness, Europe, feminism, internet, news, politics
Tagged America, apartheid, apartheid regime, argentina, bobby sands, Britain, coal miner, ding dong the witch is dead, England, eye for an eye, hell is now being privitized, IRA, ireland, Jedi, justice, khmer rouge, labor, margret thatcher, miners, munchkin, Nationalism, neslon mandela, northern ireland, party, pinochet, prime minister of britain, prison, reagan, reaganomics, real ira, rights, robert sands, scotland, song ding dong, south africa, south african leader, strike, stroke, terrorist, thatcher, unions, wales, wisdom, wizard of oz, Yoda
It is the year 2013, almost 150 years since the telephone was first patented by Alexander Graham Bell [a Canadian!]. I am 22 years old, which means that I can legally drink in the United States of America, as well as vote on important political decisions.
I do not own a cell phone.
Yes, I own a laptop, which is sitting on my lap in contradiction to the warnings that it is not conducive to the general health of “my guys,” so I’m not a complete and total Luddite. What I do not own is a cellular telephone, a device that I carry around with me everywhere and which would keep me constantly connected at all times. The following image is a pretty great reason for this [lots of scrolling up ahead]: Continue reading
Posted in America, bizarreness, Canada, internet, media, technology, Youth
Tagged An Sibin Pub, attention, aware, awareness, cell phone, cellular phone, communication, connected, conversation, distraction, email, Facebook, human, in person, Instagram, interact, interaction, internet, laptop, observe, online, phone, plan, talk, technology, telephone, text, Twitter
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