In case nobody Tweeted you the news yet, today is the second annual National Day of Unplugging. Organized by Reboot, a network of “young thought-leaders and tastemakers” who aim to rejuvenate Jewish traditions in the 21st century, the idea is that, from sunset tonight through sunset tomorrow, we all should shut off our computers, televisions, cellphones, and other electronic umbilical cords, in order to “help people become more aware of their dependence on technology and not to allow it to interfere with the important things in life.”
I learned this, of course, via the Internet, where Reboot has created a Web site devoted to the cause, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. (Actually, to be perfectly clear, I learned about it from a friend’s Facebook status, where he posted a link to his blog, where I found the link to the organization’s Web site, www.sabbathmanifesto.org.)
At the Web site, I learned that the idea behind the National Day of Unplugging is to encourage people to slow down and “reconnect with friends, family, the community and themselves.”
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Activision, the company that produced the once-groundbreaking and popular videogame Guitar Hero, announced this week that it is killing the franchise.
While it’s hardly unusual for a videogame series to run its course, Guitar Hero wasn’t just any game; some called it nothing short of a cultural game-changer during its heyday. The game [...]
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It’s that time of year again, when every self-appointed critic and self-respecting media outlet looks back and ponders the best (and worst) of the year. We’re no different around here at the Missoulian. On Christmas Day, the Missoulian will publish an issue of the Entertainer devoted largely to the year in music, film, [...]
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What’s your favorite album of this relatively new millenium? What film changed your life in the past ten years? Best book or videogame? Most memorable performance?
As the end of the first decade of the 2000′s approaches, the Missoulian is collecting guest reviews / odes / fawnings from readers about the greatest artistic products and local performances of the past ten years. We’ll run your essays in the paper and online starting Friday, Dec. 18. [Read More...]
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A certain relative gave this magnet set to our son when he was born, which was pretty awesome. Now, news has emerged that, coming soon, there’ll be a whole host of video games that’ll teach him how to sing along with the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Super!
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I’m pretty excited to announce that the Missoulian Entertainer has finally — FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! — been redesigned as its own independent online destination site. This has been a thorn in my side pretty much since I got here, so I’m both proud and relieved of what we’ve done. (I actually didn’t do much except [...]
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It’s strange how a thing that was once important to you can slip into the periphery and then be gone, without notice. So it was that I recently noted the absence of the Cyberstation video game arcade at Southgate Mall. Turns out, the arcade has been gone almost a year, according to mall management. I surely walked past the storefront near JC Penney several times since then. I just didn’t notice that the arcade was gone, and that an epoch in the history of mall culture had thus come to a quiet close.
Surely that’s not overstatement. Though I was too old to spend much time at Cyberstation in the years I’ve lived in Missoula, I know what the old Alladin’s Castle at Lexington Mall in my Kentucky hometown meant to me.
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My brother, Alan — with whom I play World of Warcraft — sent me this YouTube clip. It’s pretty hilarious, and resonates with an eentsy bit of truth as well…..
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I received a great email message today from a reader, responding to the column/post about playing World of Warcraft with my brother. Thought I would share:
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