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Freyja Haraldsdóttir is an Icelandic grad student in disability studies, activist, writer, and has been elected to the Icelandic constitutional assembly, which is rewriting the constitution as we speak, and all around awesome. She has written several ( Read more... )

LACEY, Wash. - One day last winter Margarite posed naked before her bathroom mirror, held up her cellphone and took a picture. Then she sent the full-length frontal photo to Isaiah, her new boyfriend ( Read more... )

No social movement can succeed without activists willing to take serious risks for their cause. But other factors are also important. These include a critical mass of ordinary citizens who are at least sympathetic to, if not yet actively supportive of, the activist's cause, and a strategy to reach and persuade as many of those citizens as possible ( Read more... )

Is women's greatest contribution to technology and/or geekdom their bodies? No, but sometimes it may be hard to assume otherwise ( Read more... )

New Airport Security Rules Cause Traveler Discomfort

by Sarah Gonzalez

It's called "full-body imaging," and it's the latest indignity for air travelers.

There is now one in every U.S. airport - a machine that gives security officials a look underneath your clothes.

For passengers who say no, there is an aggressive new "pat-down" policy. ( Read more... )

Meet GameCrush, a startup that manages to sound both ridiculous and very promising at once. The gist: take the millions of male gamers out there and offer to hook them up online with a gaming buddy of the opposite sex for a fee. Or, as founder Eric Strasser put it, “if you can buy a girl a drink in a sports bar, why not buy her a game online ( Read more... )

The Internet is a wild place ( Read more... )

I submit, without commentary, this Best Buy commercial. It speaks for itself, really.

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