Archive for 'Life in Digital'
The Digital Mirror
All of us like to think that we are completely independent people, not caring what others and the world at large think of us. That is, though, a pipe dream and in the real world we want to know what others think of us, how important we are perceived as being. So, despite [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2008 under Life in Digital.
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The Dough Boy
I surfed my way to the newest trend in online dating, the matchmaker. With the traditional online dating sites all but dead in the water (the pool so diluted with outdated and unlikely profiles and the costs of memberships disturbingly out of sync with the features being offered) the new movement afoot is to produce [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2008 under Life in Digital, Relationships.
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Online Dating 101: Dating Site Don’ts
It always amuses me when people pretend to be horrified that their friends are trying online dating. It even amused me ten years ago, when it was still a relatively new concept. After all, you’re just as likely to meet an axe murderer squeezing melons in the produce section as you are on [...]
Posted: August 5th, 2008 under Life in Digital, Relationships.
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iPhone Marriage Update: Rights Extended to Out-of-Staters
Earlier this month, SmartReMarxcom reported that marriage between human and iPhone had become legal in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As this ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court went into effect, its scope was immediately limited to Massachusetts residents when the administration invoked a little-known 1913 law. The law prohibited the state from providing [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2008 under Humor, Life in Digital.
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Breaking News: Scrabulous No More?
Following up on our earlier articles about Scrabulous, the highly popular knock off of the board game Scrabble hosted through Facebook, SmartReMarxcom has learned that the game has been shut down. According to a message posted at the application’s Facebook link, “Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice.”
The creators of [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2008 under Life in Digital, Tech News.
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Massachusetts SJC Rules iPhone Marriage Legal
Following up on a comment made on yesterday’s iPhone review, SmartReMarxcom has learned that the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has opened the door to nuptials between a man and his iPhone. This is the most significant ruling of its kind since the Goodridge decision in 2003 legalized marriage for same-sex couples in the [...]
Posted: July 18th, 2008 under Humor, Life in Digital.
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