lara croft 7.0

  Computergame-heroine-turned-pop-culture-icon Lara Croft has a new likeness: ↑Karima Adebibe. Read the whole story at ↑Evolution Of Lara Croft. Just for the fun of it I raided the web’s tombs and compiled the pics of all seven Lara-models. See pic above, from left to right and in chronological order: ↑Lucy Clarkson, ↑Rhona Mitra, ↑Nell McAndrew, ↑Vanessa Demouy, ↑Lara Weller, ↑Angelina Jolie, and ↑Karima Adebibe. Hint to the male audience: click the links if you’d like to have some sleepless nights—but do not forget to turn Google’s “safe search” off beforehand. Ah, hell yes, ↑2R, ya know, liek ↵sex’n’stuff sells, rite? … Continue reading

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volkskunde vs. völkerkunde?

kulturwissenschaftliche technikforschung and cyberanthropology    Since quite a time [the first entry is dated 25 May 2005] there is a weblog called ↑Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung published by the ↑Institut für Volkskunde of Hamburg University. The blog’s ↑about is quite enlightening, but unfortunately in German only. The about’s main arguments are culled from the ↑startpage of the Forschungskolleg Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung‘s website. There’s an English version, too, and I take the liberty to quote from it extensively, especially as I second every argument given:  […] “Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung” deals with the question of how—that is, in which ways and with which consequences—, but also … Continue reading

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