Billy Idol - White Wedding
Rated • 7 reviews • music, video, billy idol, 80s • youtube.com

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Rated Jul 14 2007 • 7 reviews • music, video, billy idol, 80s • youtube.com
Rated Jul 14 2007 • 0 reviews • music, seal, video, killer, adamski • youtube.com
Rated Jul 14 2007 • 0 reviews • tv, video, x files, tinh • youtube.com
Rated Jul 14 2007 • 0 reviews • literature, books, thriller, barbara vine, ruth rendell • penguin.co.uk
Rated Jul 14 2007 • 0 reviews • geography, northern ireland, photography, geology, lanzarotte • geographyinaction.co.uk
Rated Jul 13 2007 • 1 review • linguistics, thirteen, etymology, superstition • reference.com
WORD OF THE DAY
I hope no-one here has a morbid fear of today's date!
But if you do, you're in quite august company...
Rated Jul 13 2007 • 3 reviews • stumblers • stumbleupon.com
Rated Jul 13 2007 • 0 reviews • cyberculture, psychology, web rage, online behaviour • danielgoleman.info
Rated Jul 13 2007 • 1 review • cyberculture, psychology, web rage, blogs, online behaviour • guardian.co.uk
An interesting article from the UK broadsheet, the Guardian.
Of interest particularly to people here, who form part of the demographic being discussed. I often wonder at some of the provocatively rabid commentary here, and suspect those behind it are perfecly polite in real life.
It is also a curious suggestion that anonymity has very little to do with this behaviour.
From the page: "Dr Daniel Goleman, the author of the bestseller Emotional Intelligence, thinks the problems are caused by a lack of emotional and social intelligence. Last month, using the example of an email war between two engineers who knew each other, he wrote a paper about web rage and why it happens. In essence, as most of us already know, it's much easier to get mad with someone online.
He says: "Flaming is a symptom of a larger malady - an epidemic failure of social restraint. The same syndrome seems at work in bloggers who take a perverse glee in attacks and threats (such as those recently against blogger Kathy Sierra). They see web rage as cool." (danielgoleman.info)
Fullwood adds: "Some people deliberately create a different persona online, even if they use their real name, because it's like a big computer game to them."
Rated Jul 12 2007 • 0 reviews • uk, books, tolkien, birmingham, lotr • virtualbrum.co.uk
