Category Archives: miscellaneous

"Governance of Virtual Worlds" course at ASU

This is cool, it’s the descrip­tion I received via email of a “Gov­er­nance of Vir­tual Worlds” course tak­ing place at Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity next semes­ter. I wish I didn’t already have a com­mit­ment that pre­vents me from enrolling. The core of the course will be an inno­v­a­tive exper­i­ment in self-governance wti­hin World of War­craft. We

"comfort women" and the Asian Women's Fund

Just in case your week has been a lit­tle too care­free so far, here’s a brief report I did for school on the “com­fort women” enslaved by Japan dur­ing WWII. I have noth­ing to say other than, if there is a hell, the peo­ple respon­si­ble for this belong there. Japan’s Asian Women’s Fund: Repa­ra­tions to

Cargo, your lip gloss insults my intelligence

If you are not famil­iar with Sarah Hask­ins and her video series, “Tar­get Women,” you should be! She does a great job of hilar­i­ously expos­ing the absur­di­ties of adver­tis­ing that, well, tar­gets women. In the Sarah Hask­ins spirit, I have to share with you my unhap­pi­ness with this prod­uct, Cargo Clas­sic Lip Gloss. Ordi­nar­ily, I would