Rational people hate Instagram. Its popularity seems driven by any of a series of insolvent whims—misplaced nostalgia, vanity, herd mentality—there’s no sense that it does anything real. This is why Instagram users are derisively branded as “hipsters.” I mostly accepted Instagram’s popularity, while dismissing it personally. The photos generated by the app did feel more [...]
I’ve always been into comics and graphic art, but I’ve typically followed titles that deviate from the hero-in-tights model. Also, I’m kind of a sucker for following a story “from the beginning,” so it’s always been a bit of a hurdle to jump into a long-running title that’s well into the hundreds of issues. However, [...]
The fact that someone might want to set up a blog and pretend to be a lesbian in Damascus (as Bobbie Johnson described in his recent post on the issue) is definitely somewhat disturbing — in part because it was revealed that the creator of the blog had been carrying on this facade for several [...]
A commenter on io9 showed me the light: Harmless to person Harmless to property Completely reversible