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It really is ironic to post the following link on my blog, and know that it will also get picked up by my Facebook profile and reposted there. But here goes:

iPhones Have Consequences

I should note that this article is not exactly about iPhones, but about digital "culture," or lack thereof. It really is worth your time to read it all the way through. You will, in fact, be proving the very point of the article if you don't, can't, or won't.

An excerpt from a recent e-mail I wrote, intentionally pretentious but completely serious:

"A sophisticated analysis might suggest that Rage used Sony, the very symbol of the corporate, political, economic machine they were raging against, to get the anti-machine message out to more people. In this sense, it's a guerilla tactic; you steal weapons from the very army you're fighting against, and use that army to defeat itself, enriching yourself in the process.