Face up and motionless, I lay floating on my bed. The pressure of gravity held sway over my body, and I felt no strength to fight it; I couldn’t imagine any force that could. The spectre of sleep hovered within reach, taunting my eyelids to close once more, just for…

The internet is a strange place. Memes and in-jokes come and go, personalities morph into cultures which morph into ironic counter-cultures which in turn morph into memes. Nothing is stable, for everything is changing. Stress at the horrors of modern life expresses itself in darkly comedic subreddits and servers, where…

[Please note I wrote this essay many years ago, and no longer fully support all the arguments presented here (not that the core ideas are wrong per say, just that the particular arguments used here are flawed). …

We’ve all heard the stories, the hype, the controversy. Do video-games make people violent? Are we creating a generation of killing machines, or is this just the latest “kids these days” worry? Well, the research is in, and the results are clear: it depends. According to one study by Scott…