Excellent article from NYMag:
Kids, the Internet, and the biggest generation gap since Rock and Roll
And after all, there is another way to look at this shift. Younger people, one could point out, are the only ones for whom it seems to have sunk in that the idea of a truly private life is already an [...]

The New York Times recently ran an article about flaming on the internet, and tied it to neurophysiological research dealing with online behavior.
The emerging field of social neuroscience, the study of what goes on in the brains and bodies of two interacting people, offers clues into the neural mechanics behind flaming.
This work points to [...]

Acquired by an unintentional email mishap:
The Social-Cue Reader (NYT)
The Emotional-Social Intelligence Prosthesis, developed by Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard, consists of a small camera mounted on a cap or glasses that monitors a conversation partner’s facial expressions and feeds the data into a hand-held computer. Software tracks the movement of facial features and classifies [...]

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New thread in D&D about a recent Forbes article on Network Neutrality. During the discussion, various analogies were thrown around: highways, telephone networks, classified ads, etc. Forum Superstar LaFarga issued the following challenge:
All analogies for computer technology suck and people need to stop using them. If you can’t explain the situation without an analogy then [...]

You may have heard of the ‘bomb scare‘ in Boston last night over the imminent threat of a Mooninite attack. While the situation is both hilarious and depressing, the law that the Mooninites violated is also pretty funny:
(b) For the purposes of this section, the term “hoax device” shall mean any device that would cause [...]