Archive for May, 2010

Facepeople

Here's what we understand about Facebook, in no particular order You never had any privacy in the first place. A lot of people are complaining that Facebook is too invasive. They say that the service (which is free) is taking too many liberties with their freedom and asking too much of its members, sharing everything they do and say with everyone else. Number one: Whuh huh? It was our impression that you choose to do or say whatever it is you are doing and saying on that service. You're still on the internet, you're still typing into a computer sending your words and...
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Words Matter

Anyone else notice a general lack of attention being duly paid to the words and phrases we are using from day to day? The vernacular is being systematically pared down on one hand, while words are being repositioned or invented on the other. We're certainly not against a colorful vocabulary, but we're aware that some words are falling into disuse or abuse and we'd like to remedy that situation, in some circumstances. So here's a list of words we'd prefer to start hearing and reading to return us all to a gentler, more beautiful world. Napsack Messenger bags are so 2005. Backpacks belong on...
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On the Coming of Out

It is still odd to us here at Glassdog World Domination - perhaps because our goal is world domination and we want to dominate everyone so any particular one's self-identity is pretty much beside the point - that the anachronistic concept of declaring one's sexuality is still something worthy of a "thing." In other words, why is it that one set of persons has to declare this, and another set doesn't? Does one declare one's eye color? No, one does not. Does one appear on Time Magazine's cover under the headline, "Yep, I'm left-handed!" No, one does not. And yet.... It would...
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