9/14/14 Today's Inquiries

It's an NSAIDs at 5am kind of day.

The links:

JotSCOTUS Sotomayor says technology is going to turn America into an Orwellian nightmare state. She needs to quit mixing her fictional dystopias though:

"We are in that brave new world, and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too."

It seems that reading Harry Potter will make you not racist. Or something. What does reading The Hunger Games make you? 

Why the face of tech will remain a male one.

Anita Sharkeesian says the biggest thing you can do for women online is to believe them when they talk about their experiences. 

Taye Diggs is my hollywood man crush ever since he was in that movie with Christian Bale. He's also completely insane as evidenced by his use of 6 second video app, Vine.

The British Library has hired its first Interactive Fiction Writer in Residence. In case that title confuses you, it's video games.

An actually interesting and contemplative article about the intersection of cinema and video games. 

Welcome to an alternate history in which Sega's doomed Dreamcast console won.

In case you missed it, Jason Jones has been writing an excellent criticism/review of Bioshock Infinity.

Also related to the Bioshock franchise, check out this review of the game Gone Home.

Tropes from horror fiction are present in Gone Home from the start: you are stuck, at night, in a thunderstorm, in a big, empty mansion. You expect something to go terribly wrong at any moment. The game slowly dismantles this expectation, until you are left with only the embarrassment of having had it in the first place. 

If anyone is interested in teaming up for some Don't Starve Together, let me know. I promise I won't eat you. You may, however, be bait for the wolves. 

Lovely:

This does not compute:

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