Category Archives: Love & Other Glitches

Keely Kolmes Soothes Geek Hearts: An Interview on Mental Health 2.0

More Sex @ SXSWi, this time with Keely Kolmes, Psy.D. Keely is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, who has worked part-time as a Staff Psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services at Stanford University for the past five years. Keely says, “I have been living my life online since 1993. Prior to [...]

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“We Live In Public” x2

Film critic Karina Longworth has an early review on this doc about Josh Harris, Pseudo.com, & the webcam phenom he drove with “We Live In Public”: “Harris and his girlfriend Tanya moved into a loft outfitted with motion control cameras in every room, broadcasting their relationship 24 hours a day to an audience of eager [...]

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An archive of broken hearts

At the online archive of The Museum of Broken Relationships, users/artists may upload photos, emails, and texts from lovers past, with an option to lock these messages until they have mended enough to share them with others. A physical museum has launched in Singapore, and will be traveling the world with its relics — cell [...]

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Introducing the Bubble Hotties: Boys & Girls Hot Beyond Their Means

The bubble — (blogging about) it’s so hot right now.
We don’t judge if you haven’t been paying attention to the bubble, but you’ve been reaping its benefits. It’s okay, users. No, I’m sorry, content makers. We’ll still respect you even if the thing ends up bursting its unseemly tech juices in the [...]

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And I’m Looking Forward to Getting to Know You, Now That We’ve Fucked

danah boyd (and wow, am I a pervert for getting off on her finding such good sex stories?) sifted this Salon piece on gay vs. straight dating from 2001 to the top of her del.icio.us links, and so this must bear repeating in some now-ish way:
See, a straight woman says, “I’m sorry, but I can’t [...]

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“Transparency is for politicians, not for lovers.”

Susie Bright interviews sex & relationships psychologist (no, don’t run screaming) Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, and it’s too good not to quote them both excessively…
Esther argues that erotic passion— to a certain but critical degree— is built upon distance and ambiguity. In her view, transparency is [...]

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But Who Will Love the Lovebots?

Jamais Cascio, founder of WorldChanging, writing at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies on emotional companionship and the probability of lovebots over sexbots:
The notion of human-looking robots made for love has a long history, but—perhaps unsurprisingly—by far the dominant emphasis has been on erotic love. And while it’s true that many emerging technologies get [...]

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