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• Model Behavior – The New Inquiry

  Model Behavior: A Laurie Penny essay on gender presentation, anorexia, neoliberalism, capitalism, queerness, gender, drag, media, America's Next Top Model, and a few other things. 
  posted by latkes at 10:06 AM - 35 comments (26 new) +
  
  "Gender determines the shape of our fantasies. Good little boys are supposed to dream about changing the world, but good little girls are supposed to dream about changing ourselves. From the first time we open a book of fairy tales, we learn that beauty is destiny, and when we grow up, we’re told that this destiny is ours to command. If we can consume wisely enough to be beautiful and fashionable, we can transform everything about ourselves."
  

  tags: culture

• Go Get Windows 8 | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com

  The world was treated to a minor fiasco when various Microsoft blogs posts told of the availability of the newest Windows 8 download, the Release Preview. You can look around for it but my advice is to download an ISO image here, then burn it onto a DVD and go from there. The direct download site actually tries to download Windows 8 onto your actual machine, which I do not recommend. You should put this on a sandbox or other machine, not the one you use daily.

  tags: technology

• Engineers-Excel.com: Little Man Computer

  This tool shows the working of a computer CPU using the Little Man Computer Model (LMC).

  tags: technology

• How a trio of hackers brought Google’s reCAPTCHA to its knees | Ars Technica

  Hackers exploit weaknesses in Google's bot-detection system with 99% accuracy.

  tags: programming

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