Online Romance…from 150 Years Ago
From its title (Wired Love) to its tagline (“‘The old, old story’—in a new, new way”), this Ella Cheever Thayer novel from 1880 sounds surprisingly modern.Substitute texting for telegraphs or OKCupid...
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Ever find yourself in a risky situation where you are being asked to give your number to a not-so-awesome-but-also-frightening-and-possibly-aggressive person? Here’s your solution! Give out this number...
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You may never need to text words again. Except the word taco. Still no taco emoji.Wikipedia tries to better itself. Still not allowed as a source in college papers.The theory of disruption has been...
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Examining the troubled origins of our search for technological utopia.Autocorrect is our favorite fall guy for texting errors, but it’s also the reason you can text.What is worth saving from your...
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THIS. THIIIISSSSS. And this history of “This.”Can Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) save the crumbling ivory towers of higher education?“Tech companies, in their many guises, always tell stories...
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Colorful Language
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View ArticleEnglish Is Not Dying, You Elitists
Pop linguist Gretchen McCulloch unpacks the many wrongful assumptions about language behind the idea that emojis will cause the “death” of the English language:No, English is in ruddy good health. In...
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If you give a mouse an Orson Welles film, he might solve human consciousness.Your great-great grandkids might text from the grave.What Westerners consider universal about music: totally incorrect.Yes,...
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico
Tommy Pico’s IRL is a stunning book-length lyrical poem following the mind of a contemporary Kumeyaay man, Teebs, living in New York City. The book opens with a risky text that Teebs sends to his...
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FUNNY WOMEN #149: Pilgrims Without Internet
Excerpts taken from the journals of early American settlers on how they dealt with day-to-day matters in a world without technology. *** Without Facebook: I am intensely upset by news from the Capitol....
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