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Links for Monday, August 18th

August 18th, 2008 by RM · No Comments ·

  • Mac Users Get Clipboard-Jacked At Digg, Facebook – Security Watch – … interesting (and annoying) stuff.
  • World's End: When Superheroes Fail To Save The World – A nice write-up re: the Wildstorm relaunch. I've been a fan of Wildcats, The Authority and the various Stormwatch books for quite a few years now, and my interest is certainly piqued with the whole "World's End" storyline.
  • delgrosso dot com » “Avatardentity”: thoughts on the authentic online self – … "It’s my general belief that the person we “put ourselves out there” as online is, phenomenonally speaking, no different than the person we would have put ourselves out there as 20, 30, or even 50 years ago. Yes, the tools are there to handcraft a virtual personality for ourselves, but I don’t see how it’s all that different than what people have always done to make the same impressions; the effort to craft an impression of “us” has simply shifted to a different kind of community and in-crowd. Today we are no more the sum of the things we choose to put on Flickr, Twitter, blogs, etc. than we were the sum of our shiny DeSoto and Cape Cod house and electric range and picket fence in 1954. Same rules, same desires to “be” a certain person, different means of projecting an image. So despite our newfound ability to shape our online self—our “avatardentity”, if you will—we’ve always been shaping ourselves."
  • YouTube – Video Games that SHOULDN'T Exist – Chou Aniki SNES – Wow. This really might be one of the worst games I've ever seen… Seriously. Is that really Michelangelo's "Adam" fighting Samson in a speedo? Really? I think my brain is about to explode.

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