Remembering a fallen ape in the virtual world
Harambe was a gorilla who was shot at the Cincinnati Zoo after a four year old boy fell into the moat of the Gorilla World exhibit. Many people were upset […]
Category Archives: ::Cyber Culture::
Richard Prince Does it Again
Richard Prince, the lord of repurposing other people’s artwork, has done it again. I’ve written about his work a couple times before (here, and here) but this time, Prince took […]
Top 5 Robots in 2014 Pop Culture
1. Hyundai Exobaby commercial This “harder than steel” exoskeleton turns babies into Iron Man. “The baby in the suit is you in a new Hyundai.” the commercial states. Humanistic factor: […]
Beautiful spam that boosts my self-esteem
Not being a high-traffic site, I don’t get a lot of spam, but over the past few years, I’ve been noticing how spammer are getting creative in the comments they […]
Awesome technologies from “Almost Human”
Almost Human is a sci-fi cop drama that takes place in the year 2048. An Android cop that has been programmed to feel emotion is paired up with a human […]
James Franco, Selfies, and Online Self-presentation
I really loved James Franco’s New York Times essay about the “meaning of selfies.” A lot of his personal reflections about why people engage in this particular online self-presentation was […]
Gangnam Style (Media) effects
Bandura tried to show how influential media could be by showing how children exposed to a video of a person punching a Bobo doll imitated and even creatively elaborated on aggressive […]
American Censorship Day! Screenshots of websites protesting SOPA/PIPA
For those outside of the US who may not have seen these, here are some screenshots of websites that did a mock “censorship” of their content as a form of […]
