1. "It happened without us even noticing. Blackberry’s user base has shifted — from business executives to the urban poor. It happened so fast that it’s hardly been noticed in the media. RIM may not even know it themselves." Via.



2. Katie Krause: "Urban rioting existed before social media. You know what didn't? Large-scale community cleanups, organized within hours."



3. Misrepresenting the riots in New York 20 years ago. Via.

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1. A good reminder that you should read every article critically because the author probably has all sorts of biases you don't know about.

2. The stories about Mark Zuckerberg are going to get weirder and weirder, right?

3. Lawyer complains that his opponent is using a large-breasted woman to distract the jury.

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1. Good article about Anonymous and the Westboro Baptist Church. Via.

2. Destructoid loved Bulletstorm. So did Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

3. A newspaper was caught photoshopping an image to make it look like its home team got robbed on an offsides call.

*Buy Bulletstorm at Amazon.

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1. Warren Ellis describes the origin of Valentine's Day (it involves werewolves). (I'm sure his site is NSFW.)

2. Especially with the nonsense this week about how video games cause rape, this is a particularly interesting observation:

For years we've been told that violence on TV creates imitation in real life. What, are police exempt from this theory? If a TV network makes felonies committed by a cop under color of authority entertainment, network standards and practices is complicit in fostering an atmosphere of lawlessness and disrespect for the Bill of Rights that can only encourage more official lawlessness.

3. Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso have deals with Nike. ESPN claims that it didn't know. (Herbstreit called the national championship, if I remember correctly. It'd be interesting to listen to the broadcast and see if he praised Oregon's uniform.) Via.

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