When the first trailer for video game Resident Evil 5 came out, I wondered about its potentially racist implications. Now the second trailer is out and, in a game set in Africa, includes the lines “there is no reason here… no humanity”. Phew! Good thing there’s not an established, well-documented history of Africa being described that way or that would be horribly inappropriate…

Dodai from Jezebel goes through why she hates the Sex and the City movie. Haven’t seen it and probably won’t and this just increases my ‘meh’ reaction. (and the idea that Jennifer Hudson’s character kinda’ ‘graduates’ into being a vapid, materialistic white woman is really fucking weird).

This site that lets you covertly read literature at work feels delightfully retro (remember those screensavers from the nineties?) and subversive at the same time.

I’ve been obsessed with theorising Twitter lately, and this BBC post on using Twitter as the new watercooler for discussing TV shows in real-time is one more reason why I shall continue to.

From the “obvious but someone needs to say it” files, this Salon piece looks at two new books that argue that brands not only sway what decisions we make, but are also used to carve out our identities.

Snarkmarket points to a great comment on Metafilter about the joys of being of a grownup. As someone whose ‘temporary stay’ with my parents is almost pushing 2 years, this made me laugh – and ache a little inside.