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Taylor Hatmaker writes about gadgets, games, social media and sometimes other stuff for Autostraddle. She draws cartoons on occasion too, if you ask real nice. Twitter: @ouroboring // Email: taylor [at] autostraddle dot com

April 25, 2012

A-Camp by Rail: An Ode to Amtrak

Come along with Taylor as she makes her way from Portland to A-Camp by train!

March 15, 2012

Honoring Gillian Anderson's Newly Revealed Lady-Dating Past: Top 5 X-Files Episodes That Made Me Gay

As an unsuspecting proto-queer I loved the X-Files something fierce. I watched it loyally through nine seasons of sci-fi glory, and I’ve been branded ever since.

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February 28, 2012

10 Things I've Learned About Flying and 5 Things I Never Will

“It’s like being an anonymous bear in an anonymous bearcave 30,000 feet in the air.”

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February 02, 2012

Playlist: 13 Degrees of Sleater-Kinney

From ragged riot grrrl roots to Portlandia, we pay homage to the late, great Sleater-Kinney.

February 01, 2012

17 Things on My Computer That You Need Too

These 17 things will make you well more than 17% saner if you download them. I’d venture to say 170%!

January 18, 2012

On Booth Babes, CES, and Why This Female Tech Journo Thinks We Deserve A Better Apology

In which I respond to a BBC interview featuring yours truly on the matter of “booth babes” and call for a better apology from Gary Shapiro, all-around really influential technology guy.

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December 23, 2011

Gaming OPEN THREAD: What Are You Playing Over the Holidaze?

What secondary pixelated world will you be occupying to avoid your respective untold holiday horrors this year?

December 23, 2011

New My Drunk Kitchen Ep: Hannah Hart's Gingerbread Shanty Edition

My Drunk Kitchen’s Hannah Hart is full of the holiday spirit(s)!

November 14, 2011

19 Things About Living Alone

Because hell is other people.

November 12, 2011

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, A Boundless Fantasy World to Devour You Whole

“Skyrim is an example of a game that pushes the bounds of gaming as we know it, peeling back the surface layer to reveal just what video games can do as a medium for something more.”

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November 01, 2011

Every Single Homo-Offensive Joke From Friends Crammed Into A 50 Minute Video

Taylor’s Team Pick: Relive every single homophobic and oppressively heteronormative moment that ever aired on Friends.

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October 28, 2011

12 Geeky Halloween Costume Ideas To Perplex Friends, Onlookers

Because it’s no fun when people can guess what you are.

October 21, 2011

28 Things About Portland That Seem True

I have lived in Portland for one month. Here are 28 of my 100% accurate observations to date, translated with some fidelity from the bar napkin I scrawled them on.

October 15, 2011

Should You Upgrade? The 411 on the iPhone 4S

“You can probably see a line winding its way from an Apple store to where you’re standing.”

October 07, 2011

Remembering Steve Jobs: The Day Technology Went Dark

“I remember my first iPod; it had the four red illuminated buttons and it never left my side. I remember my first smartphone: it was an iPhone. I remember picking up an iPad with skepticism and setting it down and knowing that I didn’t just want one — I needed one.”

September 30, 2011

Why Facebook's Biggest Change Ever Will Make You Freak Out (Maybe In A Good Way)

Facebook’s Big New Thing and why you’re going to totally love it or want to kill it with fire.

August 29, 2011

My Drunk Kitchen's Hannah Hart: The Autostraddle Interview

“My favorite color is plaid.” Autostraddle cozies up with rising YouTube star and homo-next-door heartthrob Hannah Hart.

August 17, 2011

Spotify & Turntable.fm: Streaming Music to Forever Please Your Heartparts

Two totally sweet ways to let an endless, all-you-can-stream cascade of music wash over you at all times.

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July 21, 2011

Circles, Pokes and Profile Holes: How Google+ Queers Facebook

How Facebook’s approach to online identity is inherently flawed, especially if you like to queer things up.

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July 09, 2011

Google+ Social Club: Highlights and Invite-Fest

Google+ is taking the interweb by storm! Read up on what you need to know and snag an invite while you’re at it!

June 14, 2011

Gamingsplosion: Taylor's Inside Scoop on Video Games to Watch Out For

Taylor went, saw, and conquered at E3 2011 last week. What are the hottest upcoming games? Well, wouldn’t you like to know! (Elder Scrolls V, BioShock Infinite and more!)

Taylor's Team Pick: My Drunk Kitchen

Exactly what it sounds like: One queer in a kitchen making half-assed grilled cheese sandwiches. And it is sublime.

March 21, 2011

Does the iPad 2 matter? Yes, No and Kind Of

What really counts about the iPad 2 isn’t the iPad 2 at all.

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