Monthly Archives: July 2008

Tumblr and the Path to Identification

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 30 July 2008

I did it. Went over there. Got a Tumblr.
In some ways, I feel like I’ve conformed to another hipster precedent that I’ve been resisting for too long. And yet even though I’ve finally caved in, I still reckon that I’ve stumbled into a secret cavern lit by candlestick glow. Like an dusty, Victorian house, but [...]

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Batman: Dark Knight

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 18 July 2008

Just see it. Three words are all you need: It. Is. Great. 100 percent. Power level over 9000. A++. And want to know why? Because at 2:30 am, after the midnight showing, everyone in the theater stood up covered in sweat inside a 90-degree house.
My friend the illustrious James Sotis put it this way: “If [...]

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O-Face and Interface

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 16 July 2008

On the path to planning panels for South by Southwest next March, I came across a link for ETech 2008, an O’Reilly conference held earlier this year in California. One panel discussion, Really Really Really Intimate Interfaces, caught my eye because on the conference homepage it linked to the panel’s placeholder with the term “sex [...]

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