Digital Culture Studies

I must have my head too far in the books, because it never ocurred to me that people just print fake versions of real degrees from real schools and sell them, but this sure looks like the University of Cambridge seal to me. Best of all, this one comes with a transcript. It does make me wonder, though - how prevelant is stuff like this? If I saw this framed, in an office somewhere, I would assume it was real -  this is a real bricks and mortar school and a real emblem. I realize that anyone with photoshop could do something like this at home,  but it is troubling to see something so clearly meant to pass as legit being sold on Ebay. Apparently you can ask for any school that you want. Ugh.

• “Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship?” Tom Hodgkinson of the Guardian weighs in on the politics behind Facebook and the commodification of relational ties.
• Diane Keaton says “Fuck” on Good Morning America. Why is the word fuck so inherently dreadful that we have to invent cutsie-isms like ‘F Bomb’ to substitute on television. Which is mildly ironic, because really, shouldn’t the word ‘bomb’ be much, much scarier than the word ‘fuck’?
• RulesOfThumb.org. A compendium of the world’s rules of thumb. One from my childhood on the frozen tundra:  one inch, keep away; two inches, one may; three inches, small groups; four inches, O.K. (how to verify if ice is safe to walk or skate on).

While cleaning up my desk in prep for moving next week, I found an old file folder from the mid-90’s, filled with scraps of paper, with stuff jotted down like my old ICQ number, and channel op instructions.

/topic#channel “newtopic”

/kick#channel “nick”

/mode#channelname+b”nick”

/mode#channelname+o”nick”

/msg NickServ Register “nick”

/msg NickServ SET KILL ON

Web 1.0 required a lot more memorization :)

If Cuteoverload designed games, this would be their game. Philosophical question - when you remove the Chuzzles, are you saving their lives or sending them to their doom? This is the question that pretty much ruined Snood for me.