The Secret Life of Transgender Rocker Tom Gabel | Music News | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-secret-life-of-transgender-rocker-tom-gabel-20120531?print=true
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The Secret Life of Transgender Rocker Tom Gabel | Music News | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-secret-life-of-transgender-rocker-tom-gabel-20120531?print=true
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The Wire: Adventures In Sound And Music: Article
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/218/
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[Squick. -egg]
The Believer - Sweatpants In Paradise
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201009/?read=article_young
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[Huh. Maybe raises more questions than it answers. -egg]
The Long, Fake Life of J.S. Dirr: A Decade-Long Internet Cancer Hoax Unravels
http://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-decade%20long-internet-cancer-hoax-unravels
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Ms Stetten is a twenty-something model living in New York (though possibly not a native). Yesterday she was on a plane when the fellow sitting next to her, wearing a wedding ring, tried hitting on her. She turned him down, and tweeted about it. He kept at it.
Over the course of the conversation, Brian mentioned not just his first name, but also that he’s an actor, and born in Oklahoma. Eventually he brought up that he’d just been working on a project with Matthew McConaughey, and that’s all it takes nowadays. Inside a minute, one of Stetten’s followers had found him on the IMDB.
Things got worse for Brian from there — lied about his marriage, turned out to be lying about being “clean and sober”, etc. The story’s been picked up by a Hollywood gossip site, so I imagine he’s got some ’splainin’ to do back home. I’m interested in this not so much for the sake of schadenfreude about some actor I’d never heard of (although it is fun) as for the implications for science fiction. How much have you read recently that gives you that glimpse of the possibilities of heavily networked societies? How many authors (other than Charlie Stross) are really writing about the possibilities of a crowd-sourced panopticon? And how many are still living in the ’70s?
[Paul Ford thinking about what time is becoming. -egg]
10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/10-timeframes/
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The original is a centuries-old village of 900 and a UNESCO heritage site that survives on tourism. The copycat is a housing estate that thrives on China's new rich. In a China famous for pirated products, the replica Hallstatt sets a new standard.
The Chinese Hallstatt features a church spire, a town square ringed by pastel-colored buildings and angel statues. They're among architectural flourishes inspired by the original, a centuries-old village of 900.