Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
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I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Big Brother is watching you and smelling good.
- Melissa Bateson, "Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting"
- Katie Liljenquist, "The Smell of Virtue"
All that remains is to overload our sense of taste, touch, and hearing with good vibes.
Dynamic Open-Participation Divisions
- ZeFrank's Color War
- Tumblr's Sharks vs Cats
Dynamic Closed-Participation Divisions
- Hogwarts Sorting Hat
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
Fictional prejudices, stereotypes, and slang which produce derogatory terms that reveal our own tendencies towards prejudices, stereotypes, and slang have been on my mind.
Mutants in the Marvel Universe are decried as muties. The alien race in District 9 is crudely referred to as prawns. Robots get toaster, tin can, and bucket of bolts which relate them to inanimate metallic objects of lesser value.
Then there is the seemingly rare viewpoint of the human being as a lesser being. Possibly only available to aliens, artificial intelligences, and ascended beings. The slurs that stand out tend to refer to our evolutionary tree (hairless ape) or our biological traits (meatbag or fleshling). Aaron Stack (the Machine Man) and Bender are perhaps the most noteworthy for their proficiency at demeaning humans.
As with all things that dwell on my mind, this has already been covered at tvtropes.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasticSlurs
Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.
This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!
Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.
Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
At the start of this latest episode of Fringe a police officer receives a phone call that instructs him to carry out an enigmatic task. The immediate thing that came to mind was that some writers had finally got wind of Alternate Reality Games and worked them into a story.
What a sinister thing that would be - a game that would drive participants to commit crimes.
Or at least unknowingly serve as accomplices as the case of Anthony Curcio and his Craigslist decoys.
