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...Mass. Ave. got a bit of a makeover this week with three new self-service machines and a new look upstairs...
Most notably, the counters in front of the stairs have been removed and replaced with three automated self-service machines, one of which was still being installed earlier today. The machines, which include scanners and bagging stations, allow shoppers to take care of transactions by themselves. They're fairly intuitive and are similar to those found in other grocery stores...
When the online self-described “legal tabloid” Above the Law reported on Stephanie Grace’s now infamous e-mail—which suggested that African-Americans are predisposed to be less intelligent—two weeks ago, they should have been able to predict the blogosphere storm that would ensue. Shortly after Above the Law’s post, which attempted to keep the author of the e-mail and the individual who forwarded it anonymous, Gawker released their names and pictures to the public. Public Internet sentiment comes out strongly against Grace...
...ways in which we misrepresent our feelings through writing. How often does a response of “LOL” actually correspond to laughing out loud, or “OMG” to a legitimately shocking event? Taken together these phrases indicate a pattern of falsely self-representing oneself as being in a heightened emotional state. Perhaps overcompensation of emotion in these electronic messages stems from the lessening of actual human contact we experience over digital mediums. In any case, our communications, in almost every occasion, become more exclamatory than the real life interaction would be. Rather than...
Keenan also cites the poet James V. Tate, known for his playful musings on human absurdism, as an additional source of motivation. Keenan says that he identifies with Tate’s “sense of humor” and his “self-alienated relationship to society...