Being Amber Rhea

links for 2008-01-14

• Do Not Want: A Wordier Take on Darth Vader’s “Nooo!” (Wired.com)
  “Blogger Jeremy Winterson posted the video frame in June 2005, and a meme was born. As with many items of geek argot, this phrase’s meaning has become diluted through endless recycling on message boards and captioned photos of yawning kittens.”
  (tags: lolcats memes internet web interesting funny)
• inDECATUR: Looking back on the SE corner of Decatur Court Square
  (tags: decatur georiga history photos interesting)
• Sex 2.0: It’s not just a conference, it’s an attitude – Download Squad
  My first (of my triumphant 2008 return) Download Squad post. More to come, stay tuned!
  (tags: sex2.0 sexuality sexpositive tech me web web2.0 internet DLS)
• WRLC Digital Repository: Queered Virtuality: The Claiming and Making of Queer Spaces and Bodies in the User-Constructed Synthetic World of Second Life
  (tags: research identity interesting internet secondlife toread)
• Why I went private on Twitter • Tiffany B. Brown
  “I wonder what kinds of social norms and etiquette we will start to see and whether people will recognize internet space and privacy in the same way they regard physical space.”
  (tags: twitter internet web privacy identity socialnetworking)
• Bastante Already: Uptight
  “It appears people like me are uptight jerkwads with nothing better to do than become offended at nothing. God forbid I take away anyone’s ‘right’ to use the word ‘retard,’ a word full of good cheer and humor.” Kim wins w/ this post.
  (tags: language assholes arguing blogs)

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