Media
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Forget Google, Apple, etc…let’s get to the good stuff. These glasses can read your mind…kind of. So, did you see this automaton from the 16th century? An insanely creepy singing robotic mouth. Are you a media artist, hacker, Wikileaks contributor, or…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Hello, Big Brother: Unlike twitter and other social sites, facebook doesn’t inform you if the government wants to snoop around in your account data. Lame. Hello, Big Brother (take 2): the government wants to require Internet providers to retain 18 months of logs…
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A Romance Novel Health Scare
For the most part, a quick glance at the cover of any romance novel is all it takes to reveal the formula that’s inside. For better or worse, it’s a genre of fantasied gender stereotypes and it has long had…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
What is Google+ good for? Hiding from parents. But seriously. Google is letting more people onto its new social network this week, even after new glitches surfaced (and were fixed) over the weekend. The nerds are all excited today over…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Army develops a suicide bomber radar. Bring on the radiation! Motorola cowers before hackers with their new Droid. Get touchy. Some hands on ideas for your spare time.
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Vocabulary Primer
This is a vocabulary-based reference for Roxane Gay’s recently published “Still With the Scarlet Letters.”
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
A week after a rocky launch, Google+ is set to start welcoming new members. Judge to Apple: You can’t own the term “app store“. Speaking of Apple… The iPhone 5 hasn’t hit shelves yet, but iPhone 6 rumormongering (and attendant…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Much hyped but not that exciting: Facebook now has Skype-powered calling. They-finally-found-a-real-use-for-QR-codes exciting: Go virtual grocery shopping in the subway & your real-life groceries’ll be waiting when you get home. Exciting in a Dr. Moreau kinda way: Live dyed frogs…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Would you stay at a hotel that gave you a discount for giving up your digital devices? Emotion reading technology may be the next big thing. Apple’s technology sometimes seems way ahead of everyone else…oh wait, it is. Not exactly…
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No More Liking, Please
Has the point-of-view been rendered anachronistic by internet marketing? When we “like” something on Facebook, are we participating in a conformist internet-based culture? This Wall Street Journal article discusses the perils of “liking” and encourages us to be fearless and…
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Still with the Scarlet Letters
Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping with the atrocities she had witnessed as a human rights…