Miscellaneous Links n Things

Some stuff from reddit today:


A bit of fun
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Create your own Dan Brown novel at http://tobyinkster.co.uk/Software/dan_brown/

Read some hilarious warning labels whicj have been prompted presumably by our highly litigious society:
http://www.mlaw.org/wwl/pastwinners.html



Other General Interest
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"Sound Off" - a blog about remix culture, open society, and collaborative works:

http://mutednoise.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1879



An extremely interesting article about sexuality and social roles in male prisons:

http://www.spr.org/en/stephendonaldson/doc_01_lecture.html


The author is an academic/activist/counsellor who has himself spent a total of four or five
years in a number of different US prisons.

This (probably fairly unusual ) perspective has given rise to one of the most thought-provoking and
heart-wrenching indictments of our own main-stream culture I have read in some time.

I am surprised that this area has not been covered more extensively in the popular post-modern
academic realms of cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, sexuality, gender identity, and so on. The
article seems to be quite old - 1994?, and maybe there has been more study since then - I am not
sure. It is perhaps a mirror into which we would usually prefer not to look.