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Class division through aesthetics

In her blog essay titled “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace“, danah boyd makes some interesting observations about how socio-economic class divisions manifest themselves online through MySpace and Facebook. In this essay, boyd defines “class” as something beyond just income level; the two classes of teens she identifies are “hegemonic” (the so-called “good” […]

Oh Hai! (and other forms of LOLspeak)

(flickr tag: lolcats)
I was trying to do some research on the origins of “LOLcats” and “cheezburger,” but after reading just a small set of articles, my brain started to hurt. These articles are full of examples, such as:
“i has dialect”
“im in ur fridge, eatin ur foodz”
“i’m in ur newspaper writin […]

FastLane and E-ZPass troubles: Part 2

(flickr tag: traffic light)
[Read Part 1 here]
In Part 1, I described the problems my husband and I had when we first got an E-ZPass (which works just like FastLane). We received 3 violations and had to pay $5 in administrative fees for each one even though we had a perfectly […]

Featured on This Is Broken

The broken message I got on my cell phone when deleting a demo game is featured today on This is Broken. Go check it out!

Quick update

I haven’t written in more than two weeks because I’ve had various interruptions (such as a vacation), but I plan on updating again very soon. So stay tuned…

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