Posts Tagged With "society"

5 Truths Video Games Have Taught Us About the End of the World

gamer | weird & whimsical 

[20 Dec 02012 | 626 views | 7 minutes of your time ]

I’ve taken a look back at all the entertainment to see what they’ve predicted for days, weeks and months following the annihilation of much of humanity.

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5 Skills Every Dad Should Teach Their Kids to Survive Armageddon

fatherhood | weird & whimsical 

[16 Dec 02012 | 469 views | 7 minutes of your time ]

…parents can start nurturing skills that will serve kids well both before and after the inevitable viral plague that will ultimately wipe out ninety-nine percent of all human life.

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Ticking Along: My Non-Opinion & Electoral Indifference

opinions & venting 

[6 Nov 02012 | 298 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

By the time we all go to bed tonight we’ll very likely have a pretty solid idea of how the next four years is going to unfold.

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Future Histories: Blogging and the Art of the Personal Archive

blogger | history & archives | informology 

[22 Oct 02012 | 459 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

Blogging is a kind of personal archive. On the one hand we write for the “now” and the “moment” publishing on a day-to-day schedule of curiosity and voyeuristic peeks into one person’s life.

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e-Relics

history & archives | meta & methods | technology 

[31 Oct 02011 | 312 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

Have you ever lost something and then found it again? I’m always doing that sort of thing with my data. And isn’t that to be expected? After all, with nearly eleven years of blogging under my belt, and another six or …

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To Win: Beating the Odd

abstract & thinking | pop-culture 

[27 Jun 02011 | 323 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

For the entire month of June I’m planning on writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is one of those posts.
June 27th // Something You Want To Win
I did a quick …

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What Do Dads Be Reading?

books & reading | fatherhood | opinions & venting | skepdad 

[8 Jun 02011 | 289 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

I’ll avoid this becoming a commentary on the anti-intellectual nature of our society, but I wanted to make it known that I was deeply disappointed to get an email from Indigo.Chapters (the bookstore) providing me with suggestions for books that are “great …

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The Happiest

travel & holidays 

[7 Dec 02009 | 96 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

Disneyland is a curious place. Having just spent the week there I found my impression of the park (upon reflection) as a whole is in flux hour-by-hour. There is a certain sweetness about the place, yes. But that sweetness is more like …

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year ago

writing 

[27 Mar 02002 | 180 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

“Get to work, you lazy nut!” snarling up at me from his couch. “I’m not burning my arse down here to throw inspiration at you just so you can toss it down the tube on some pointless self-indulgent ramblings, am I?”

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