Virtual Thought

Article about machinama/cyberporn.

This article includes some, frankly, weird ideas about why men have female avatars:

Why does Slustler only take female models? “It’s mostly for aesthetic reasons,” said Struszka.

No it’s not for asthetic reasons. Don’t be a fool. We live in a culture of beauty that objectifies the female form to an amazing extreme: so as to componentize its parts and put them on display (think about ads that show women’s stomachs or backs or breasts without showing faces or having dialog and you might agree). This guy is playing out a script that our culture has given him about how sex drives and our conceptions of beauty work. It bears some thought.

Great article about Pastafarianism.

My favorite part of the whole article is this:

“WN: Why do you think so many people have responded to this, so many scientists?

Henderson: I think it’s just because they have a better understanding of what the ID nuts are trying to do. I think part of it is that the science community, itself, is pretty quiet about the issue. Their strategy is to ignore the “debate” so that the ID people don’t get the forum. WN: Do you think that’s a mistake? Henderson: Yeah, totally. They need to be out there calling these people retarded all the time. Nonstop.”

That makes me so happy!

Meanwhile, Java enthusiasts are leaving the station. Apparently Ruby on Rails is stealing the hype thunder… but this article makes a good point of explaining why without dropping into troll language.

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