“Cable news is dead, but something keeps animating the corpse”

“Human genes do not augment the body, they are the body”

“memes circulate us rather than vice versa”

“many of the declarations whizzing around Boston look like sympathy but smell like attention-seeking”

“social networking sites are not a separate realm of political activity”

“We need a multitude of what I call “Denial of Positivism (DoP)” attacks from various directions”

“the Google car was treated with deference no matter how recklessly we drove”

“iPad painting: just of the many similarities between George W. Bush and Churchill“

““No, but I’ve seen the GIFs,” I offered. This is what the future of music videos is up against”

“One of the unexpected pleasures of technology is the ability to simulate identities for ourselves with consumption”

“On the one hand, yay: My subconscious isn’t digital dualist”

“online buzz had no quantifiable impact on short-term sales”

“hardcore narcissists are put off by Facebook because it reveals that they are not the center of everyone else’s universe”

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