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Looking Through the Lens of Surf Culture

It’s hard not to note that this kind of attraction would never have taken root in the surfing-stubborn nineties, where conformity dictated that everyone at the beach rode three-finned shortboards.

Predicting the Future of Media Consumption

When music and book producers find the centralized marketplace they need to sell their wares, the prices for consumers will likely plummet to between $1 and $5, mirroring the low-risk prices we see for applications at the App Store.

What the Border Means When War Goes on Behind It

That’s the news story I want to see, the one that starts with the question of whether or not we’re complicit and what we could be doing about it, not the one that ends with the suggestion and let’s it go at that.

The Ideology of Jury Duty

By focusing on a political tangent and seeking out jurors who can form a consensus on that tangent these defense lawyers were dismissing (perhaps evading) the details of their cases in favor of a red herring…

The Dialectic of Oil: Representation and Metaphor in There Will Be Blood

Usually, any film that rotates around a central metaphor (such as oil as a metaphor for blood) fails miserably under its lofty ambition and blunt heavy-handedness.

I Didn’t Sign Up for This: the Hidden Costs of Apple’s Hashing Schemes

At the outset, you might think that having a program archive your files using a secret code is itself an abrogation of your rights as a user of your own files…