Wow, I had no idea that the birth of the ubiquitous “smiley” emoticon had an actual date (and time): 11:44 a.m. (I presume, Eastern time) on September 9, 1982.
You can talk all you want about how Internet communications make for obscurity, but I don’t think a more trustworthy and helpful invention has come along […]

Interesting article, linked via Boing Boing, about a study of who uses MySpace and who uses Facebook:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we’d call hegemonic society. They […]