Category: Culture
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Today I Block Ads
Marco Arment just published a post on The ethics of modern web ad-blocking. His opening position is pretty similar to my own, I’ve been a long time advocate of not blocking ads. In the past, I have also put food on the table via ad revenue. Until today, I have been morally opposed to blocking ads has until…
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Back in the RSSR
My reddit account just turned 8 this year, in that time the more I visited reddit, the less I checked RSS feeds. To the point where I completely stopped reading them after Google killed reader. Reddit was where I got all my news and that was fine. But over the years – I don’t know if…
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Is Wil Wheaton’s Table Top just a reality show for board game geeks?
Yesterday Wil Wheaton wrote a blog post (and corresponding reddit post) in which he apologized for “completely screwing up the rules” in at least half (10 out of 21) of the episode of Table Top Season 3. IMHO his apology is a text book example of how not to apologize. He spends the majority of the post singling out…
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The Matrix Turns 15 Today
Happy Birthday. Everything is a remix.
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The Nintendo WiiUnderated
For Christmas this year we bought Santa brought the kids a Nintendo WiiU for Christmas. I’ve been holding back this post until I played a few different game types on the system. As usual, Nintendo has done a great job of designing and prompting really fun gameplay. As has been the case with their last few…