For those interested in internet and meme culture, there's a strangely enjoyable minidrama playing out at Hipster Runoff, triggered by a purported hack of the site. It's now spawned a hilarious video post responding to the comments of the hacker's critics. Whether it is genuine or not is debatable — surely this is another Hipster Runoff heteronym? — but, either way, the video is something to behold. It reads like a painfully accurate take on anti-cultural pop-philosophical nihilism, referencing the likes of Fight Club and soundtracked by Linkin Park's "In The End".

From the comments:

"are hackers gunna be the new thing of 2k9??
Maybe they are more relevant than we knew."

— wut

24th March has been declared Ada Lovelace day (twitter), a blogospheric event to draw attention to groundbreaking work being done by women in technology, in homage to Babbage's undersung partner (though it must be said she has become a cause celebre in recent years). I've committed to writing something for it, which only seems fitting after the heavy influence that Sadie Plant's techno-feminist tome Zeroes and Ones had on Subtext. Many thrilling possibilities, and a good motivation to write.