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Look upon the polished face of the internet and ask yourself: are you having any fun? When you look something up, can you find any decent answer without tacking “+Reddit” onto the end of your query? When was the last time you watched a video uninterrupted by ad breaks? Blame Web 2.0. While Web 2.0…
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|∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| ∩＿＿＿∩ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| | ノ ヽ /⌒ ) |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| /⌒) ● ● | .| |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| / / ( ● )ミ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|.（ ヽ |∪| ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴| ＼ ヽノ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|_ / / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴∵∴∴ / |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴∵∴∴ ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴ ∵∴∴ ／ |∵∴∵∴∵∴∴|￣￣￣ I’ve been on the internet for a long time, a member of that weird in-between generation that grew up just as the old internet started to die, when forums and niche internet communities were replaced by the inexorable creeping illness…
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Starting around the age of 5, I became obsessed with dragons (and dinosaurs, of course, but these were just two parts of the same puzzle as far as I was concerned at that age). My mother, ever the supportive parent, took this enthusiasm and ran with it. Along with books like Dragonology, she also began…
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I find the pursuit of immortality overrated, given those who seek it often do so at the cost of quality of life, of their own humanity, of the community around them. To choose immortality (or functional immortality ie. you live a long long long time and only die if something kills you) is to choose…
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Today I’m going to visit a childhood friend for the New Year. She flew from Texas to spend the holidays with her family. When we were 10, we lived four blocks away from each other. I pretty much lived in her basement bedroom, spending our middle and high school years watching anime and developing interwoven…
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First thing in the morning, I sit down at my desk. It’s sturdy — used by my grandfather, then by my mother, then lugged around from apartment to apartment by me. The light streams in through the window, casting rainbows on the floor as it catches on the prisms hung on the windowframe. The forest…
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The autumn warmth of December ended today along the Front Range of the Rockies, heralding deep winter with gusting winds pressing between layers of wool and fleece. I woke up cold and tired, longing for the long days of summer when 7:00 is not a dark dawn but a dancing stream of sunlight on the…
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I was ten years old. Tired, with a plate of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets on the plate in front of me in a bar after four days of camping in the woods. The TV showed a newscast, an aerial shot of a small boat on the water and a headline: “Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Dead at…
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If I could, I’d take myself back through time and space and land somewhere around 1100 AD near modern day St. Clair county, Illinois where the ancient city of Cahokia bustled at the peak of it’s power with a population between 10,200 and 15,300. Today, all that remains of the largest metropolis of the Mississippian…
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‘Tis the season for New Years Resolutions we’ll break by January 5th, and a season for focus on More here in America. More festivities, more holidays, bigger Christmas trees, brighter lights, more Miriah Carrey over the Target stereo so I can never escape her. It’s insurance deductible reset season, too, which means my job is…
from the pen of icarus blake 