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How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle
via Wired: Culture by Tim Harford on January 20, 2008
Increasing use of e-mail, web apps and online networking might minimize the need for living physically close to our workplaces and social circles. However, studies suggests that far from removing distance barriers, technology actually reinforces the value of proximity and face time.
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Gallery: Students of the Pickup School for Geeks
via Wired: Culture by Lisa Katayama on February 17, 2008
The Pickup School for Men Who Can't Get Any promises to turn any awkward geek into a womanizing pro. Meet the school's founder and some of his top students.
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How to Become an Energy Drink Connoisseur
via Wired: Culture by How-To Wiki on April 22, 2008
Nothing satisfies the geek's need for electrolytes, caffeine, B-12 and a wicked sugar high all at once like a can of neon green goo. Learn to determine which energy drinks are most worthy of your buzz -- and which ones to avoid -- in Wired's How-To Wiki.
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Subversion, Not Sexism, in Internet Culture
via Wired: Culture by Underwire on April 27, 2008
Alice Marwick, Saturday's keynote speaker at ROFLCon, says the internet is a positive alternative to mainstream media culture, but it's important to turn a critical eye on online communities, which can be sexist, homophobic and racist.
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Gallery: Inside the Architecture of Authority
via Wired: Culture by Keith Axline on May 28, 2008
: Courtesy Richard RossA new book by photographer Richard Ross, Architecture of Authority, examines the way institutional buildings exert power over people. Ross managed to gain impressive access to all kinds of secretive or high-security buildings, from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, to the supermax high-security Pelican Bay prison in California. Ross credits his unprecedented access to a...
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How the Ideas and Events of 1993 Created the World We Live in Today
via Wired: Culture by Adam Rogers on May 29, 2008
Oh, what a year! 1993 contains the seeds of a new world -- the military nails down GPS, awareness of climate change dawns, a bunch of kids in Illinois code the first useful browser for the web, Sears discontinues its paper catalog, the X-Files debuts and Wired magazine is born.
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