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Welcome to the Real World

by Iain Jackson

6 October 2008

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. That's the saying, right? So why is it that so many supervillains never quite seem to get around to doing time at all? And why is it that even when they do time, it winds up being strikingly short.

Virtual Difference

by E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman

29 September 2008

As a researcher who firmly believes that there are more similarities than differences between social interaction online and social interaction face-to-face, and whose own research in fact hinges on the assumption that classical social theory will be born out in virtual interaction, it's nice to see some confirmation.

Adventure, Zombies, Tragic Love, and Chess

by James Schellenberg

22 September 2008

The only thing I've said definitively so far is that I hate trying to make these kinds of definitions. So allow me to jump straight into the works at hand and see what I can make of this mess.

Learning to Write

by Matthew Cheney

15 September 2008

There is something off about them, something twanging in my ears, the tone of an arrogant man trying to pass himself off as humble or simple. Perhaps I am in the wrong mood.

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