AltWeeklies Wire
Anonymity & the Internet: No Commentnew
Why do websites let anonymous commenters just say whatever the hell they want anyway?
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
05-25-2010 |
Tech
GeoCities Shut Down Last Week. Does That Even Really Matter?new
GeoCities represented an era; amateur designers and avid hobbyists and internet enthusiasts made web pages that, compared with today, were primitive, endearing and earnest. Unless the makers of these sites made copies of or signed up for Yahoo!'s paid hosting service, all of that history seems to be gone.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
11-03-2009 |
Tech
This Year's Rock Documentaries Are Funny, Moving, Exciting and Tragicnew
This year's crop of rock docs bring us talkes about Arthur Russell, the Monks, the '80s New Haven punk scene, the Hold Steady and Scott Walker.
New Haven Advocate |
John Adamian, Christopher Arnott and Brianna Snyder |
06-30-2009 |
Movies
Ice-Cream-Truck Drivers Peddle Treats and Cruise the Open Roadsnew
Ice cream trucks seem stuck in time; there's not so much room for ingenuity. Just put some Popsicles in a freezer, get a van with a speaker system and a loopable MIDI track, and chase children. That's as advanced as that system is going to be.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
06-16-2009 |
Food+Drink
Men in Prison, and the Women Who Love to Date Themnew
Women find true love writing letters to prisoners, dating and sometimes marrying them, too.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
02-17-2009 |
Culture
Tags: prisoners, relationships
Bartering Makes a Comebacknew
Bartering is gaining popularity fast, as Connecticut barter service owner Debbie Lombardi will tell you.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
01-27-2009 |
Business & Labor
People Love to Film Themselves Drunk ... The Rest of Us Love to Watch Themnew
Some people love to watch the drunks be drunk, and the drunks love to be watched, or so suggest the thousands of videos, blogs, pictures, forums and message boards devoted to drunks and drinking.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
12-02-2008 |
Tech
Tags: Drugs, TV, YouTube, web culture, computers & technology, Intervention, A&E, Drunk History, drunks
David Sedaris Talks About Smoking, Blogging and His Personal Encounter with a Decapitated Headnew
One might expect the in-demand Sedaris to be a bit bored by the interview process, but instead he's just like his writing: affable, chatty, relaxed. He makes the not-unreasonable assumption that you know him already, weaving casual references to his life and family into the conversation.
New Haven Advocate |
Brianna Snyder |
06-24-2008 |
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