Memolane aggregates our bleeps and boops and transforms them into an interactive story.
Ones and Zeroes: Keep the Dream Alive, Steal All You Can
November 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
LimeWire’s death is one small step for big government, one giant leap into oblivion for pirates.
Ones and Zeroes: Public Dining Without the People
October 30, 2010 By 3 Comments
Do you hate the sound of strangers slurping down grub, gasping for air as they cram half-pound slabs of hamburger into their maws?
Ones and Zeroes’ Man of the Decade: Eric Schmidt (Part 1)
October 28, 2010 By 5 Comments
Even in this circuit board wasteland, there’s still hope: truth. And by my estimation, no one is more truthful than Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Facebook Knows I’m Gay (and I Don’t Care)
October 26, 2010 By 3 Comments
If you’re gay, you’re a marketer’s bullseye on Facebook. Welcome to the world of software built on punctured code, sociopathic hackers, and, above and beyond all else, unfettered, uncontrollable capitalism.
Ones and Zeroes: My Corporate-Sponsored Falsified Memories
October 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
How did this happen? Had I unknowingly signed a contract, shaken hands with some suit with a twirly villain’s mustache? Or had Pabst covertly jammed its fingers into my digital life?
3 out of 4 Tweets Totally Ignored
October 18, 2010 By 2 Comments
Companies use it, celebrities hump it, and ordinary schmoes like you and me transform the achingly mundane into inflated snapshots of what life is really like. But nobody gives a shit.
FCC ‘Bill Shock’ Plan: What Took So Long?
October 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The FCC has long ignored the mobile industry’s financial wringing of its customers, and the “Bill Shock” plan is mostly a stunt to cover for the Commission’s historical tendency to ignore these kinds of problems.
Apple’s Moralistic Text Crusade
October 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
First Apple CEO Steve Jobs told me that if I wanted porn on my mobile, I’d have to buy an Android phone. He even went so far as to say that Apple has a “moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone,” as if a producer of vanity electronics has the right to dictate propriety.
Dictate the Interests of Millions for Only $100,000 a Day
October 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you’re a devoted Mad Man and hemorrhaging money, you can now dictate to over 160 million Twitter users what is cool and important.
Online Dating Gets Strange and Specific
October 8, 2010 By 4 Comments
Online dating used to carry with it the Scarlet Letter of loserdom; it was an under-the-breath admittance of social failure; a desperate retreat into the digital world.
Tech or Technophobia: Which Is More Stupefying?
October 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
Your old-school technophobia may be holding back your child’s education.
Sexist Tech: A Tablet for ‘Young Housewives’
October 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
Italian design-house Alessi is introducing the Tab, a tablet computer designed to serve an apparently untapped market—young housewives looking for a product that will allow them to surf the net and do the dishes at the same time.
Androids Turn on Their Masters
October 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
Google’s tight-knit relationship with advertisers just got a little kinkier. When you launch certain apps on your Android smartphone, you run the risk of sending your personal information, including location, to advertisers. Without your permission, naturally.
Irony of the Day: Pornographers Exposing Pirates with Embarrassment
September 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Illegal downloaders, also known as pirates, have been under attack for years. The biggest blow to the biz came when the ultra-popular site The Pirate Bay was shut down due to legal pressure in May. Its creators were sued for roughly $4.2 million and sentenced to one year in prison, although the case is being [...]
Netflix Will Win the Streaming Media War
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The expected death of Blockbuster marks an important shift in the video rental industry. It’s not about DVDs and Blu-Ray discs anymore—the battlefield is online streaming media. And I have a feeling that Netflix, despite several shortcomings, will come out on top. Netflix’s biggest artery clog is its crappy selection of “Watch Instantly” movies and [...]
Vocalyze
“I think men should reclaim Creep, after all if being a Slut is something to be proud of then Creep can be lionised as well.”
This comment was by Transhuman on the post Is Creep-Shaming Real?