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Archive for July, 2008

Stockholm Syndrome and the Online Captive

July 31st, 2008

Wikipedia defines Stockholm Syndrome as “a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger (or at least risk) in which he has been placed.”
You may have noticed this phenomenon in certain child abduction cases wherein the child strangely starts to [...]

What’s Up Wednesdays: Turning Thirty

July 30th, 2008

While previous editions of What’s Up Wednesdays have focused on success and girl bloggers, this week’s mashup is a much more of a mixed bag. You’ve got everything from international fashion to some geeky web code. Whatever it takes to get over hump day, right?
Let’s start off with Richard Eriksson, the guy that serves as [...]

Contest Reminder and Second Place Prize

July 29th, 2008

The main reason for this post is to serve as reminder that the make fun of John Chow PhotoShop contest is coming to a close on Thursday night. If you want to win a big box of cool stuff, you’ll want to get in your entries very soon! Be sure to check out the original [...]

How to Introduce a Blog Post

July 28th, 2008

No matter what kind of article you are writing, one of the most important factors you should be considering is your target audience. As you can imagine, producing a research paper for your university psychology class is distinctly different than writing a sketch comedy skit for a local talent show. Blog posts are no exception [...]

Dot Com Pho - Just Pho Phun

July 27th, 2008

The video for Dot Com Pho comes a little late this week, because Stephen Fung was waiting around for Tyler Ingram to send him the video for the gadget of the week. You see, the Flip Mino that Stephen brought ran out of storage before we had a chance to record the gadget of the [...]