A few months ago, William Bennet reminded victims of the great recession that chronic unemployment was entirely their fault with the standard charm conservatives like him tend to bring to the issue: “‘Get off the video games five hours a day, get yourself together, get a challenging job and get marr
Now that Commander Shepard is gay, what’s next for Bioware? A transgender Darth Vader, clearly. The Florida Family Association, known for its protests of all things queer and friendly to Muslims, has issued a new warning against the “LGBT activists” embedded within Bioware and their new MMO The Old
Understanding the mathematical complexity of a game like chess is a very daunting task (listen to the excellent Radiolab podcast on the subject). Even more challenging, however, is understanding a profoundly human behavior that occurs within the game of chess itself: cheating. Computer scientists Ke
This week is the annual SXSW festival, an event where many a figurehead from the fields of art, tech and culture descend on Austin, Texas for a mash-up of pseudo-democratic panels discussing all of these things. Covering the event for Salon, Irin Carmon noticed a particular steadfastness in white ma
The countless unexpected variables—the unprecedented furor, surprising governmental responsiveness, and overpowering community solidarity—of the SOPA/PIPA protests led many political analysts to conclude that the internet had now official become a force to be reckoned with. Though it’s hard to draw
