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My boy CHUCKLONE is designing my EP. It is coming out In April. Look out for it! This song’s called “SKYLARK.” I’ve been working this winter.

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Why would you spend money on a domain when you could just create more ad impressions for Facebook?

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Q: What do breakfast cereal and modern male circumcision have in common?

A: They were both unsuccessful attempts at discouraging “self-abuse”.

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"Will this new person be a masturbator or a friendly stranger?"→

ChatRoulette is a weird sociological experiment. Read Jonah Lehrer’s thoughts here.

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“ The Internet is as powerful a machine for the production of loneliness as television is for the manufacture of boredom. If six hours of television a day creates the aptitude for boredom, the inability to sit still, a hundred text messages a day creates the aptitude for loneliness, the inability to be by yourself.

The End of Solitude by William Deresiewic—The Chronicle Review
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“ What is “social networking”? For all the vagueness of the term, which now seems to encompass everything we do with other people online, it is usually associated with three basic activities: the creation of a personal Web page, or “profile,” that will serve as a surrogate home for the self; a trip to a kind of virtual agora, where, along with amusedly studying passersby, you can take a stroll through the ghost town of acquaintanceships past, looking up every person who’s crossed your path and whose name you can remember; and finally, a chance to remove the digital barrier and reveal yourself to the unsuspecting subjects of your gaze by, as we have learned to put it with the Internet’s peculiar eagerness for deforming our language, “friending” them, i.e., requesting that you be connected online in some way.

In the World of Facebook by Charles Petersen—NYRB
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