Stop the presses – we’ve got ourselves a first. The Internet recently pulled together to do something pretty impressive, and it didn’t involve cats or porn. It put on its good shoes, straightened its tie, cleared the LOLs from its throat, and successfully convinced Congress to shelf SOPA – the controversial bill that many threatened would “break the Internet.”
On January 18th, high-traffic websites including Reddit, Wikipedia, Mozilla, and Cheezburger induced blackouts on their sites to protest the legislation and draw support from their user bases. The stunt was extremely successful – by the morning of January 19th, millions of emails had been sent to Congress, Google had collected over 7 million signatures from irate users, and Congressional opposition to the bill had more than doubled. Read more…
In the introduction to her second memoir, Sarah Palin “writes” that she hopes her book will be an account of America for future generations, 
Bear with me here: the complex implications of Tuesday’s 
I love Mozilla Firefox. Not so much because the browser is by itself the best (it looks and feels about the same as any other at this point), but because the add-ons and extensions you can attach make browsing so much better.
Four horsemen of the apocalypse the download.png” alt=”ComputerLocked” width=”228″ height=”225″ />Kelly Burke, a Junior studying Journalism here at NYU, decided to spend a week without television, internet, new media, or any other forms of technology you could imagine conservative groups claiming has negative effects on “the youths.” That means no Facebook, no Twitter, no 30 Rock, and worst of all, no NYU Local. I’m sure you’re wondering why anyone would ever want to make that kind of sacrifice, so we sat down with Kelly to find out just what happens when you can’t update your Facebook status for such a grotesque length of time. 
In class yesterday, my teacher Google Image searched “brooklyn hipster,” clicked one of the first images and found that four people in our group of 20 or so knew the thick-spectacled, clearly drunk hipster on the screen in front of us. This particular specimen was of the vaguely well-kempt variety, but a visit to any Gallatin or Tisch class reveals a handful hipsters looking a little more homeless than Williamsburg. Welcome, kids, to NYU 
present, and often spend hours thinking about how I will look back on everything happening now when I’m older and have grandchildren huddled about my hologram wheelchair in my robot house. I never said it was a realistic fantasy. Anyway, one of the things I think most about is dial-up internet and floppy disks and trying to make my own anime website when I was 10 on Geocities 
