Link roundup for November 29, 2007

links for 2007-11-28

• Design Milk
  Another nice design blog. More good gift/housewares/decor ideas.
  (tags: design decor furniture blog art graphics)
• Modern Furniture, Lighting & Accessories – Blu Dot, Offi, Nurseryworks…
  Nice modern design store, good for gifts.
  (tags: gifts christmas shopping design decor furniture)
• Velocity Art And Design
  Yet another cool design store.
  (tags: gifts christmas shopping design decor furniture)
• decor8
  Cute decor/home blog.
  (tags: blog art decor furniture gifts design)
• McKenzie Wark: Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace, 1999
  1999 text on slebs and cyberculture.
  (tags: dissertation toread cyberculture celebrity media)
• American Apparel, LLC – Knowmore.org
  Wonderful and detailed account of American Apparel’s union busting, sexually exploitive, sexist, misogynistic (etc. etc.) business practices. You can’t shop there and call yourself progressive.
  (tags: labor retail consumerism hipsters sexism)

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links for 2007-11-09

• Learn Japanese Pod 101
  Basic Japanese lessons in podcast/audiobook/mp3 format.
  (tags: language japan travel education classes japanese)
• Computerization Movements and Tales of Technological Utopianism
  Draft of 1996 Iacono/Kling article on computerization (adoption of social technology) and the belief that it creates “positive forms of social life.”
  (tags: technology theory socialcomputing values socialmedia socialconstruction computerization dissertation)
• Hazing as a Process of Boundary Maintenance in an Online Community
  Great paper on usenet / aol newsgroups and textual hazing
  (tags: dissertation socialcapital status usenet community)
• Sherry Turkle: Constructions
  Influential article about gender identity and identity construction, identity play, etc. in MUDs.
  (tags: cmc dissertation games identity gender status)
• Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities
  1992 article by Pavel Curtis about wizarding, social relations, etc.
  (tags: muds cmc dissertation computerhistory status games)
• Lynn Cherny’s Chat in a Virtual World
  Summary of various chapters. More MOO/MUD stuff.
  (tags: text dissertation cmc muds games virtualworlds)

links for 2007-11-08

• Bunkyo-Ku
  Neighborhood in Tokyo we’re staying in
  (tags: travel japan)
• superfuture :: tokyo :: map
  dope maps of shopping etc. in the hip tokyo districts
  (tags: japan travel shopping design maps)