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From The Room: Do Our Virtual Lives Make Our Real Lives Suck?

May 22, 2008 - The problem with video games and the internet and Web-connected cell phones and giant TVs with surround sound is not that it makes us violent. It's that it makes us bored with reality. If you're under thirty-five like me, answer this question: How long can you...

How will the Wii Fit affect American fatties?

May 20, 2008 - Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise game hits American shores this week after becoming a monster hit overseas. The player stands on a weight and motion-sensitive "balance board" while being guided through various exercises...

From The Room: April Fool's Day Sucks at Life

April 1, 2008 - A quick note to everyone on the Internet, ever. April Fool's Day is a waste of your time and mine. Just because someone puts something stupid on the Internet on April 1st, does not mean that it's just because it's April Fool's Day. Everywhere on the...

Mark Zuckerberg has sent you a gift: humiliation

March 10, 2008 - Facebook founder/future human overlord Mark Zuckerberg found himself on the sweet side of popular opinion recently when BusinessWeek journalist Sarah Lacy conducted, by the audience's standards, a thoroughly unprofessional interview with him recently at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Aust...

Republican party's new strategy: Internet startups

March 10, 2008 - It was reported today that the Republican National Committee is one of the country's foremost cybersquatters. The RNC has purchased dozens of Internet domains—including amateurobama.com, barackisliberal.com, calculatingcl...

From The Feed: I want a new drug...so, what was that URL again?

February 7, 2008 - STARTLING EXPOSE! ABC World News just set their time machine back to 1996 and found out [SPOILER ALERT] you can order drugs through the Internet without a prescription...

From The Room: Fresh Goes Better, But Not with YouTubers

December 20, 2007 - A year ago, around this time, me and my friends back home were terribly bored. We had done the whole "holiday thing" and had nothing but free time on our hands. After perusing youtube for a while, we began to realize how much shit was on there. I'm talking...

From The Room: More Money, Les Moonves

November 14, 2007 - Seen, heard and observed on the picket line in Los Angeles as the Writers Guild of America strike enters its second week: Too much enthusiasm: Writers picketing in Che Guevara T-shirt. Too little enthusiasm: Writers picketing with Blackberrys and cell phones...

According to a new study, your Nana and a bus driver have probably exchanged jpgs

November 6, 2007 - According to a new study, 80% of American adults use the Internet, averaging 11 hours online per week. Those figures represent a dramatic increase from 2000, when just 57% of adults were online...