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And for the moment, at least, the accuracy of many health wristbands is not exactly rock solid.

The rise of artist content intended to replace criticism must be a direct failure on the part of critics and editors, and instead of rising to the challenge, the reaction has been to push it instead of our own work. It cheapens the work of critics and writers to just post directly what the artist is putting out there, especially if they are doing the job we are supposed to be doing. The reaction should be to make better work so that people won’t want the artist-curated content; the reaction should be for better stories, more original ideas, and concepts never before attempted. The reaction should be for better access, because access to the direct thoughts of a musician is pretty hard to beat. The Talkhouse, and similar content, provides the ideal access, except without the filter of journalism. It’s a facade, and we have to see through it as substandard.

A triumph of art over commerce or ruthless, selfish exploitation?

We may often play games because they affect us, because they allow us to be someone fantastic and unassailable. But games are also ancient, and ancient things teach us humility. Just as often, we play games because they are there to be played. Because we want to feel what it’s like to play them. Because we are not clever or strong or fast, but because we can move stones on wooden boards or shift cards between virtual spaces on cardboard or tap a capacitive display to flap a tiny bird.

Working towards solutions requires that, as male gamers, we become aware of the ways in which we unconsciously benefit from sexism. We can't work to fix something unless we first see and understand its effects. When women as a group are systematically targeted by discrimination, it means that men are elevated by default.

One evening, some 40 years ago, I got lost in time. I was at a performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major.

Forget the crystals, the mandalas, the inner sanctum: The much-maligned genre known as new age now appeals to many who once may have identified as punks.

“I usually xyz, unless you recommend something else…” “Can you say that in more/different words?” “I don’t know.” Good advice for any professional or non-intimate situation, not just ‘in the city’ as Frank writes.

Why can't I edit my tweets?! Twitter should allow that. It's so simple right?

However arresting and damning it feels to be called a bigot, I assure you, it is far more painful to endure bigotry itself.

Heartbleed is as bad as it is possible for a security flaw to be.

“Isn’t it just so great that you can do everything yourself!” say people who don’t live the reality of having to do everything themselves.

'Racism bad. Eat kale.'

Basic income.

Because a great warranty is the best indicator of product quality we have as consumers.

Think of the great variety of work that allowed Jobs to spend even one day as CEO: his food harvested from fields, then transported across great distances. His company’s goods assembled, packaged, shipped. Apple advertisements scripted, cast, filmed. Lawsuits processed. Office wastebaskets emptied and ink cartridges filled. Job creation goes both ways. Yet with the vast majority of workers effectively invisible to elites busy in their lovable occupations, how can it be surprising that the heavy strains faced by today’s workers (abysmal wages, massive child care costs, et cetera) barely register as political issues even among the liberal faction of the ruling class?

Icon fonts for web designers with added flexibility, including multiple button shapes and a unique multi-color option. Free and open source, Stackicons-Social includes finely-crafted icons for over 60 social brands. The Stackicons project is by Parker Bennett, a web designer and front-end developer based in Los Angeles.

A meditation on the surveillance state, interface design, tech culture, and the dangers of thinking you know what will happen next, told through the astonishing life of Lev Termen.

What I’m talking about here is how addictive the righteousness that comes from that condemnation is, and how we will apparently turn to any source we can find for it — even when that source is not evil or harmful or part of any world we exist in or understand.

Naming a project is always an awful experience.

Thinking back to most of the games you played on the NES, it’s easy to remember the 8-bit library as being simple and possibly even primitive. However, if you dig deep into the library, there is a surprising amount of games that maxed out the NES hardware to produce some impressive graphics and sound (See […]

Usually, when you get a new-to-you console or you boot up an emulator for the first time (try NesterDC, for instance), you can usually find or remember the major games to check out. But what happens when you need something different to play? This is where the “Hidden Gems” come in. Read More About My […]

With a flood of dark memes and viral horror stories, the internet is mapping the contours of modern fear.

Though the musical components of Sun Kil Moon’s Benji rarely amount to more than Mark Kozelek’s voice and acoustic guitar, its lyrical universe is incomparably vast, spanning countries and decades, populated by dead relatives, high school friends, indie-rock peers, serial killers, and corporate-franchised eateries alike.

Automatic Though (Self-criticism) | Cognitive Distortion | Rational Response (Self-defense)

Focusing exclusively on feelings to the detriment of realizing the reality of failure is good for nobody.

Our neighbor at San Da Roda.

Ignore the barrage of violent threats and harassing messages that confront you online every day.” That’s what women are told. But these relentless messages are an assault on women’s careers, their psychological bandwidth, and their freedom to live online. We have been thinking about Internet harassment all wrong.