- danah boyd | apophenia » The Politics of Queering Anything
Interesting thought on the merits and flaws of having expressly LGBTQI identified panels at conferences, versus just making sure that identity politics and queer theory have a role to play in the discourse of every panel.
Tag: identity
Bookmarks for November 24, 2009
- panGloss: Mandy and Me: some thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill
A lawyer takes the Digital Economy Bill apart.
My own idiots guide to the DEB is at 1500 words and counting, and I'm not sure I'm even halfway through yet. So: serious question – if there anyone reading this who feels it would be useful for me to produce said guide? Is a guide that tries to use short words and explain the whole business practically from absolutely first principles worth it, or are you all going to go "tl;dr" and skip blithely past it? Who is there round these parts that feels like they don't know what's going on on this subject, and would like to? - The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia « Copybot
Dammit, these actually *are* that interesting. An absolute mine of weird crap that illustrates that the world is a pretty damn splendid place, when you get right down to it.
- Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks – InsanelyMac Forum
I will have absolutely no need of this kernel patch at any point.
- How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 10v Into the Ultimate Snow Leopard Netbook – Dell mini 10v hackintosh – Gizmodo
This would violate my EULA. Obviously, I would not wish to do this, because once I have legitimately purchased something, it is completely reasonable that that manufacturer dictate how I use it.
- Home – flashbake – GitHub
Tools for writers/people who generate text, rather than code, to apply more or less automatic version control to something you're working on, with tools to provide context on what was going on in your head when a given automatic commit happened.
- The Literary Gift Company
ZOMG! (As I believe the young people say.) Someone has made a website with gifts specifically for me and all my friends!
- Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims | Politics | The Guardian
Gosh, couldn't have guessed this would happen.
Bookmarks for June 12, 2009
- Gizmodo – Gang Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music on iTunes, Collects Royalties, Still Not Famous – Itunes scam
I saw this linked, and assumed it was an Onion headline, but it's not. This is a real thing. Fucking hell. I don't know whether to be impressed or saddened.
- Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity | FactoryCity
People occasionally ask me why I'm quite militant about only every using my real name on-line, owning several domain names of my name, and generally doing my best to get my name, or a basic variant on it as a username whenever possible, and it's this: I do not want Facebook, or any similar service to be the primary marker of my identity when people look me up on line. I wish to have control over my on-line identity and how people encounter it, not give it up to a third party, and the best way to do that is to be open and clear about who I am everywhere. So I have slightly mixed feelings about this facebook URLs business – on the one hand, I'm going to have to try and get my name on there, but on the other, I'd really rather not improve the chances of my profile there beating out something that I actually control as the marker of my digital identity.
- » Buy album | Tough Love
One of London's very finest unsigned bands have just released this first mini album full of absolutely superb tribal pop that is a perfect soundtrack to summer. It'll cost you all of a fiver, and at that price, you cannot afford not to own it.
- Stop Motion Video made from Post-It Notes
Exactly was it says on the tin. Except better than you're thinking it is. Seriously, it's ace, go look.
Bookmarks for June 11, 2009
- The New Negroponte Switch « Magical Nihilism
I had the same text as part of my course back in 1995 (I think everyone did), and am quite taken with some Matt's ideas here, in particular, the term "Thingfrastructure".
- Welcome to Poken
I'm not sold on the cutsey look, or the metaphors they've chosen, but still: this is the future of business cards right here. I look forward to being able to get a grown-up variant on this.
- Infovore » Dangerous Mistakes In The Company Of Friends
This is the best insight into the nature of gaming I have seen in ages. Whether you're a PC gamer, tabletop gamer or LARPer, I cannot recommend reading this highly enough. If you run RPGs, and are not devoting a significant chunk of your time to ensuring that a variation on this is the experience your players get, then you are doing it wrong.
Bookmarks for December 3, 2008
- Getting OpenID Into the Browser – O'Reilly Radar
Ding! I have an OpenID (in fact, I have several, thanks to having accounts at a number of different sites that provide it, and keep meaning to set my own up so I've got control of my own ID) but I never use it, because it's as much faff as creating a username and password. If there was simply a button on my browser that I could click to say "identify me to this website", I'd use it a lot more.