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Meet Alex Golub, Ph.D., an anthropology professor at the University of Hawaii. Golub plays a Resto Shaman in a Wrath-era raiding guild who's researching what he calls the culture of raiding -- "why people do something as crazy as run 25-mans four days a week."

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I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about wh

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Are you or someone you love dating a banker? If so, we are here to support you through these difficult times. Dating A Banker Anonymous (DABA) is a safe place where women can come together – free from the scrutiny of feminists– and share their tearful tal

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Staffers plucked from Obama's campaign operation, used to cutting-edge technology, are finding the White House to be a Mac-free technological museum. In other words, they're learning to work like the rest of America! Are we a culture of whiners? ;)

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Contemporary science has done a great disservice to Sigmund Freud, suggests Sherry Turkle, who believes the psychoanalytic tradition can teach us much about the often concealed connections between physical objects and our thoughts and feelings. On the occ

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An international exchange club for homestay programmes (via @prissyhan).

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Two years ago, a group of PhD students at some of China’s most prestigious universities made headlines when they created an online petition decrying the prevalence of Christmas.  To them, Christmas was another example of how the Chinese were blindly follo

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Lessig abstracts his seminal book, CODE. This regulator is code—the software and hardware that make cyberspace as it is. This code, or architecture, sets the terms on which life in cyberspace is experienced. It determines how easy it is to protect privacy

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Effective teachers have a gift for noticing—what one researcher calls “withitness.”

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The past decade has seen an explosion of lifestyle makeover TV shows. Audiences around the world are being urged to ‘renovate’ everything from their homes to their pets and children while lifestyle experts on TV now tell us what not to eat and what not to

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The study showed that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online often in ways adults do not understand or value.

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One of my favorite China Cyberculture blogs gets reviewed on Danwei. ChinaSMACK does a great service telling stories from the underbelly of China's Internet forums (aka BBS).

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The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by w

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RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to this website, helping to create the wo

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Instead of being all-inclusive or comprehensive, this timeline aims to portray the flavour of each year to allow readers unfamiliar with recent Chinese media history to have an all-round feeling of what it has been like to live through the changes of the

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Created by the team behind Gorillaz, Journey to the West is performed by both European and Chinese musicians and singers and produced by Damon Albarn. The album is a natural development of art and music based on the opera of the same name which Albarn and

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"Question: Please describe web 2.0 to me in 2 sentences or less. Answer: You make all the content. they keep all the revenue." -- Bash.org

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Activists from the group Anonymous will sit silently among the audience at the Gerard Schoenfeld Theatre, wearing plastic likenesses of Guy Fawkes on their faces.

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Japanese and European i-mode picture symbols (emoji). Emoji are silly and should be avoided but if you really insist on using them, the following is a list of the most widely supported emoji with their Japanese and European decimal character codes.

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Painfully polite and hilariously hostile writings from shared spaces the world over. Funny.

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