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May 16, 2008
NXT Radio: Stuff White People Like

In our second installment of scenes from a ROFLCon, we bring you Christian Lander, Canadian and would-be authority on things that the White People like.

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May 06, 2008
NXT Radio: Geekspeak with Whitney from Pop Candy

A lot of things happened at ROFLCon a few weeks back. I gained a new understanding for LOLCats, my faith in Rick Astley wavered, I was blinded - and changed forever - by Leslie Hall's gem sweaters and I sat in the back of a science lecture hall and did not fall asleep, just to name a few.

But I also got to meet a lot of cool people.

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April 28, 2008
What was that? (ROFLCon Edition)

It was somewhere around the 1 millionth Rick Astley reference when my eyes started to glaze over and a dull hum overtook my thoughts. The surroundings at MIT - a giant walking Firefox, guys in Anonymous masks, the inescapable glare of Leslie Hall's sweaters the gentle, ever-present smile of the Tron Guy and the other Branwndo-fueled insanity had all become too much.

I was ROFLCon-ed out.

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April 26, 2008
ROFLCon: Fighting the Anonymous Fight

The masks are symbolic, but also a necessity for Anonymous, the group/movement that has stepped up their criticism on The Church of Scientology over the last year.

Which makes it all kind of complicated, weird and spooky that they're sitting in a packed auditorium talking about their fight against Scientology.

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ROFLCon: The round-up

It is a bit odd being back on a college campus, sitting in a cavernous lecture hall and not having a "did not study" cold sweat.

You break out of that after looking up on the chalk board, which has several stick figures performing inappropriate acts on one another.

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April 25, 2008
ROFLCon: Let's LOL it up

It's not a big secret that I've never quite understood the LOLCATS and the whole phenomenon.

But it is a juggernaut. A big, cute, funny speaking juggernaut.

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ROFLCon: Get Fame, Get Paid?

First session of the afternoon just wrapped up and I'm still digesting all the geekery and chumminess around this place.
Although I know almost no one here, walking around feels like you're at a party with a bunch of friends or acquaintances.

And I'm sorry I can't keep typing, "Chocolate Rain" just started playing somewhere though the halls and people are singing along.

"They're rainrolling us," says a guy next to me.

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Live from Cambridge it's ROFLCon

After a should-have-been-expected traffic delay and inevitable parking chaos I’m on the ground at ROFLCon 2008! HELLO CAMBRIDGE!

A beautiful day in Cambridge and we’ve got a room full of geeks, nerds, smartasses and a few geniuses all inside a slightly darkened room.

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Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the Monday Magazine.

If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture," covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.

Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer, redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life would sound like.

When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain America.

Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and what they do.






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The NXT Roundtable: The economy & doughnuts
South by Southwest Interactive: Talking with Jay Smooth
The Night at Greendrinks
The NXT Roundtable
Day at the Newseum
Subject Bias: How to Feel
ROFLing with "Stuff White People Like"
Geekspeak with Pop Candy
A Green Eye for Fashion
Not My Job
What's next for Justin Alfond
Sittin' down with Stew n' Crew
Lessons with the Portland Music Foundation
Catching up with Opportunity Maine
Discussing Freedom Space
Spinout's Class of 2007
Free for All in Space
Flipping Records: WMPG's Annual Record Sale
An evening at the MECA art auction
Beats, award shows and life with Mike Clouds
The NXT Halloween Special
Chat with Davy Rothbart of FOUND Magazine
When Turtles Make Love *Warning: mature material
Derby night in America
The debut of Halo 3
A sit down with Santiago




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