A quick update on the MemeFactory book: - We’re working through the legal questions of image use. - We’re checking all our citations and making them consistently formatted. - We’re double checking chapters written separately to make sure we don’t contradict or repeat ourselves. - We’re assembling outside contributors’ contributions.
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A quick update on the MemeFactory book:

- We’re working through the legal questions of image use.

- We’re checking all our citations and making them consistently formatted.

- We’re double checking chapters written separately to make sure we don’t contradict or repeat ourselves.

- We’re assembling outside contributors’ contributions.

Computers linked other technologies to human beings by constituting systems-constituting them conceptually, practically, and metaphorically-as information processors. They created a closed world of semiotic values in which future wars could be imagined, their soldiers trained, and their outcomes deduced. Yet the world of computer simulations was more than a game. For unlike the chess-style war games of previous eras, computer-age commanders could engage in simulations using equipment that not only resembled, but sometimes actually was, the equipment used for real war. The closed world within the machine, and the closed world of real strategy it supported, blurred together in an intricately woven, discursively constituted whole.
Paul N. Edwards. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America

interweber:

HOW TO MAKE A VIRAL VIDEO (by dailygrace)

Me and Patrick Talking about the Ouya

  • me: these people made a video game system quicker'n we wrote a book
  • P-Davi: yes
  • me: next time we want to write a book, lets make a video game system instead, yeah?
  • me: seems easier.
  • P-Davi: tight

kenyatta:

motherjones:

So the IRS is on Tumblr now…

And their “ironic recreation of a 2003 Microsoft ad” thing is near perfect. Welcome!

SHINY TABLE

Source: irs.gov

One of the chapters in the book is about folk culture as it might relate and map directly onto internet culture, which is an idea gaining some traction more and more these days. One of the topics touched upon briefly are technology related folk remedies (think: blowing into an NES cartridge). Auntie Pixelante’s Purification Ritual for Computers takes this idea a step or two further. 
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One of the chapters in the book is about folk culture as it might relate and map directly onto internet culture, which is an idea gaining some traction more and more these days. One of the topics touched upon briefly are technology related folk remedies (think: blowing into an NES cartridge).

Auntie Pixelante’s Purification Ritual for Computers takes this idea a step or two further. 

Source: electricopolis.net

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