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...virtual Darfur refugee camp in 2006 in the online role-playing game Second Life, it caught the attention of KallfuNahuel Matador, a bald, blue-skinned avatar. "It was like somebody had thrown a virtual bomb," says Matador, a Canadian who asked to be referred to by his online name so as not to blend his real life with his second one. What he saw motivated him to organize a team of online superheroes to secure the camp, make patrols and recruit players to stop similar acts of vandalism. (Read: "U.K. Couple to Divorce over Affair on Second Life...
While Bernanke deserves a certain amount of recognition for his role during the financial meltdown, you missed a golden opportunity to name the collective unemployed as Person of the Year. It shouldn't be ignored that the unemployed have endured the edge of the financial storm while government looks for answers. The millions of unemployed Americans deserve to be recognized for the impact they've had on society and for the impact they will have for years to come...
...understand all of the criticism surrounding TIME's decision to name Bernanke Person of the Year. You throw a small man in a small boat into raging, uncharted waters, and he takes it to a calm, safe place. What more could...
Thanks to Laura Fitzpatrick for mentioning my initiative to name this decade the Unies in her Brief History [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. It is nice to see people taking note of the efforts being put into finding an appropriate way to refer to the 2000s. The "unification of the Unies" is also a great phrase to describe what happened during the past 10 years, as we saw the world become a smaller place. We saw the rise of Twitter, blogs, Facebook, MySpace and Wikipedia. We have more ways to communicate. During this decade, we became more unified...
...What to name this now passing decade? Why, it's obvious to me. The forgettables will do just fine. There is not much that I feel we should try to remember about it except to make sure there is no repeat...