Shahryar Rizvi’s blog

Who's Gaming Digg? The Right-Wing Digg Rigging Wigout The “popular news” Digg is showing us is already polluted by nonindependent judgment, presumably of many different kinds; in response to last week’s revelations, new suspicions are already being aired, like this post about the possible burying of Linux-related stories. There's lesser gaming left and right—lots of […]

Turns Out 4Chan Boards Not As Lawless As They Seem | The Smoking Gun Nearly overlooked during the recent criminal trial of the Tennessee man who hacked Sarah Palin’s e-mail account was the testimony–as a government witness–of the founder of 4chan.org, the anarchic message board. (tags: internet law culture) Netflix to Stream Films From Paramount, […]

Lexington: Build that mosque | The Economist To Mr Gingrich, it seems, an American Muslim is a Muslim first and an American second. Al-Qaeda would doubtless concur. (tags: religion politics culture)

Warren Ellis: The death of TV as we know it Common culture is going away because the internet is so big and so full of shiny things pulling at our attention that it’s now extremely difficult to get everyone’s eyes on the same thing at anything like the same time. We exist in a state […]

New Syndicate trademarks filed by EA! WHAT COULD IT MEAN? (tags: games fun sci-fi)

Arianna Huffington: Sarah Palin, "Mama Grizzlies," Carl Jung, and the Power of Archetypes It’s not Palin’s positions people respond to — it’s her use of symbols. Mama grizzlies rearing up to protect their young? That’s straight out of Jung’s “collective unconscious” — the term Jung used to describe the part of the unconscious mind that, […]

A Street-Level View of the "Ground Zero Mosque" There's not going to be some huge, ostentatious mosque with some minaret or some giant crescent located "at" Ground Zero, nor within clear sight of it, nor even on the way (in terms of virtually all natural paths a commuter or tourist might take) to Ground Zero. […]