

A Checklist for the Culturally Insecure
by Maurice Fitznuggly, Culture StudiesEditor
Part III. Cyber Stuff
___ 1. Give yourself +1 for each cellphone in your household.
___ 2. Give yourself 1 for each landline over 1 in your household.
___ 3. Give yourself +1 for each broadband connection in your household.
___ 4. Give yourself +5 for each T3 connection in your household.
___ 5. Give yourself 1 for each dial-up internet access in your household.
___ 6. Give yourself +1 for each time you used Google in the last week.
___ 7. Give yourself +1 for each hand of an online card game you played in the last week.
___ 8. Give yourself +1 for each video game you have become addicted to in the last year.
___ 9. Give yourself +1 for each time youve look at Internet porn in the last week.
___ 10. Give yourself +1 for each of the following web sites youve visited in the
last month: www.slashdot.com, www.metafilter.com, www.theartnewspaper.com, www.lasvegascitylife.com, www.alternet.org, www.edge.org,
www.killingthebuddha.com.
___ 11. Give yourself 1 for each of the following web sites youve visited in
the last month: www.wsj.com, www.drudgereport.com, www.fark.com, www.weeklystandard.com,
www.microsoft.com.
___ 12. Give yourself +1 for each 1,000 songs your have on your iPod.
___ 13. Give yourself +1 for each p2p music file youve downloaded in that last week.
___ 14. Give yourself +1 for each flat-screen monitor in your household.
___ 15. Give yourself -1 for each charitable thought youve had about Bill Gates in
the last week.
___ 16. Give yourself -1 for each negative thought youve had about industrial
designers in the last week as you attempted to press tiny buttons on any of your essential
cyber-gadgets.
Cyber Stuff Score: _____
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