Audrey Watters

I feel silly as I type this: The World of Goo, a game involving building climbing structures out of balls of goo, is one of the most enjoyable games I've played in recent memory. I mean, I've killed a lot of dragons and shot a lot of zombies. I've deprived...

Sometimes when you skip across rocks across a stream, your foot just aces each jump and you bound across effortlessly. Sometimes you hesitate. Sometimes you stumble. Sometimes other people -- not you, of course -- just stand there, throw up their hands and give up, and decide they just can't...

A friend asked me a couple of weeks ago to help him get started with freelance writing. You know the type -- the "what should I do with this Bachelors Degree in English?" sort. And I'm the tech blogger with the degree in Folklore, so I am super sympathetic, trust...

Bunny rabbit combat. It's all well and good until there's bunny death and bloodshed. Because then, of course, there has to be bunny vengeance. Oh come on, you've read Watership Down. You know how anthropomorphized rabbits are! You know they can make for pretty good storytelling. Admittedly, Wolfire Game's bunny...

I've been saying for a week now that I'd write something about my thoughts as a new Mac user. But in all honesty, that would mostly involve pointing you to this Lifehacker post on the best free Mac downloads and saying "holy shit, Growl is the best thing ever." And...

A few months ago, one of my favorite bloggers, Temerity Jane, swore she'd become a better Internet citizen and issued a challenge to herself and her readers to become a person-who-comments. And although I agree wholeheartedly about the whole digital citizenship thing, I've never quite made it over the captcha...

Holy crap, what a week! I penned around thirty blog posts, here and there, at this place and that. I'm done rit out. So lemme summarize: The word of the week was "cloud," as I took on a new writing assignment for RWW's cloud computing channel, as I wrote about...

Christopher "moot" Poole's TED talk was posted online last week. In it, the 4chan founder talks about the culture - and the cultural impact - of the imageboard. 4chan is often credited with originating several popular Internet memes, including the Rickroll. Users can post anonymously on the board, and as...

I love my iPhone. I won't lie. It doesn't leave my side. I try to reign in my love of the device. I really do. I mean, I am suspicious of Apple's control over mobile app development and distribution. I don't like DRM. But dammit, it's a beautiful piece of...

The prank has a long folk tradition, as something we do as a rite of passage as well as an act of insurrection. Folklorists (like myself!) have argued that this makes pranks important transformative and anti-hierarchical performances -- ideal, I think, for use in political theater. I believe in the...