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Recently, Jason Kottke wrote about how Facebook is “a step sideways or even backwards (towards an AOL-style service) for the web”. Essentially, he argues that because nearly all data on Facebook is in their “walled garden”, inaccessible by Google and other non-members on the open web, the service is ultimately doomed. [...]

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You know it when you see it. It used to be called “AOL speak” or “chat lingo” and now it’s recognized mostly from “the MySpace crowd” [...]

There are unique conditions in Western culture and the United States specifically that highlight vast differences from other cultures and past times with respect to consumption and production. It should be obvious that technology has given Western culture a large lever with which to accelerate its levels of both consumption and production. Still though, there [...]

People assured me that it was only “the MySpace crowd” or the teenage girls spouting off nonsense like “omg ur teh bst frd in wrdl!!11″. I believed them, telling myself that it’s just a phase that people will go through and grow out of. It’s just a series of shortcuts, right? They still know how [...]

I’ve favored the term “geek” to describe myself moreso than “nerd” or any of the other similar words because I take them to have specific definitions, only one of which applies to me. Essentially, a geek is someone who is passionate about and deeply involved with a subject. There are computer geeks, car geeks, art [...]

Life is a series of decisions and considerations that lead one down a certain unique path. As humans, we think about the situations we’re in and react accordingly. In other words, we live through a cycle of thought and action.
I claim that most people are unbalanced with respect to this process. They either use too [...]

There has been more talk lately about bringing creationism into the science classroom, to be taught alongside evolution as a supposed “alternate theory”, but there is a major problem with this proposal; namely that creationism is not a scientific theory at all. I leave the details to Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne.
Findings from a recent [...]

Admittedly I wasn’t clever enough to come up with the title, but rather I’m just mirroring it from the source: Noah Diamond: Don’t Fear The Reefer.
Noah gives a well-written overview of the history and current state of marijuana in the US. I think it’s high time (!) we look at our laws and make some [...]

If I were going to sum up the new Jetta in a single word, it would be uninspired.
I think VW’s design team completely ruined the uniqueness of the Jetta with the new design, which has a frightening resemblance to the Toyota Corolla and/or Nissan Sentra. It makes me sad. Observe:
Jetta:

Corolla:

But even more saddening is the [...]

What kind of American English do you speak?

75% General American English
15% Upper Midwestern
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Yankee

Midwestern? Hah! They need a SoCal category in there. Long live “coke”.