Poker players share their hard-luck tales online....

Poker players share their hard-luck tales online....

Photograph by Kevin Van Aelst On YouTube, we're in a bunker, and the enemies are always, always closing in. The ceilings are low. The air is stifling. A disheveled leader is delusional. This is the premise of more than 100 videos on the Web — the work of satirists who for years have been snatching...

Photograph by Kevin Van Aelst I am stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs. Take a passage signed by zipthwung, an astute online commenter: “pornography if for the ruling classes and their violent vulgar all consuming appetites. Or their slaves.� Interesting. But so as...

Photograph by Kevin Van Aelst In 1996, as Hollywood was lionizing the pornographer Larry Flynt as the author of the real sexual revolution, the Internet was trying to decide what to do about porn. It was not an either-or question. After all, data could instantly be conveyed at low cost across vast d...

Yahoo Answers solicits replies — from everyone — to any and all questions....

Photograph by Kevin Van Aelst You don’t have to search very hard to find the excruciating online videos known as thinspiration, or thinspo. Photomontages of skeletal women, including some celebrities and models, play all over the Internet, uploaded from the United States, Germany, Holland and else...

Last night, I moderated a panel for the New York Women in Film and Television 30th anniversary. It was fun, but I don’t really understand panels, and I really shouldn’t do them because I’m a loser moderator. (I was going to link to the blogger who helpfully pointed this out, but it’s too pai...