This is Bennett.

Bennett is a seventeen-year-old white bro who "thinks he's a Crip" and has trouble spelling. Also, he is hilarious. Inexplicably, Bennett has a really bright, well-spoken (well-texted) cousin who he texts regularly about things like "lasanya" and whether it's cool to bring an Indian girl to Thanksgiving dinner.

Author William Gibson has been called the father of cyberpunk and coined the term "cyberspace" back when Internet was little more than a twinkle in DARPA's eye. That's enough to mean that he's probably developed a fan base devout enough to build shrines in his honor, or at least commemorative iPad apps.

But if you ask Gibson himself -- like one audience member did during a Brookline Booksmith reading at the Coolidge Corner Theatre last year -- it still doesn't make him a celebrity.

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Citizens Bank (Kendall Square)
Peter G. Nelson Jr.

GOOGLE ATTACKS!

Scared? We are too. And so is author Siva Vaidhyanathan, who read from his recent release The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) at the Harvard Book Store earlier this afternoon.

But if you happened to miss it -- or if you walked out of there craving more, MORE -- we've got just the ticket for you, pulled from our own bottomless podcast vault: two readings from similarly tech-wary authors Nicholas Carr (The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains) and William Powers (Hamlet's Blackberry):

Green Goose - Hands down the BEST company in the LAUNCH demo pit from Daniel R. Odio on Vimeo.

The big winner out of San Francisco's Launch conference is GreenGoose -- a company that, BostInnovation reports, had been working out of the Cambridge Innovation Center, but may be relocating out West.

You may have heard of a company called Google. They say they're not evil. And to prove they're not evil, when Google was caught collecting people's private email and data when Google's Big Brother vans swept through neighborhoods collecting photographs and scanning for unsecured wi-fi networks, they promised that they would safely discard all the very private information as soon as they felt like it.

There are far too few advocates in the world for teenagers navigating the difficulties of dealing with shit IRL, and even fewer who give a shit about how teens actually relate in digital spaces. As for researchers who manage to make sense about the way real life and digital life interact -- well, there's pretty much only one must-read digital ethnographer, and that's Boston's DANAH BOYD

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Silhouette Lounge
Mercer Smith

How long have you been coming to the Sil?
Four months. I had just moved here, and I didn't know anybody. Someone told me this was a good place to meet people.

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Fóumami Asian Sandwich Bar
Liz Polay-Wettengel

All I know about Asian cuisine I learned from the Food Wall down the street from my apartment. They don't serve sandwiches. What gives?

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South Street Diner
John Angelo Gnassi

I see from how you just rolled up on a motor scooter that you're a bad-ass as well as mayor of the diner. How's that working out for you?
Well, scootering is actually one of the best ways to get around the city if biking isn't available.

Last week, we touched upon the net neutrality issue to help explain and add context to the buzz around a forthcoming Google-Verizon deal. That "deal," as you may have heard, was announced on Monday.

The first thing to note is that it's not an actual deal.

This morning, the social-media bible Mashable reported on yet another of those annoying Twitter bugs -- a "large-scale phishing attack" in which a message that says "This you???" prompts users to enter their Twitter passwords on a fake Twitter login page.

Sure enough, we had two such messages waiting for us in our inbox.

Spoiler alert: if you're a film geek, the rest of your work day is about to go up in flames.

Criterion launched a long-awaited new web site this morning, taking the first step towards digital distribution for the most coveted catalogue in film. Warning: It's still in wicked beta. But the plan is to let users stream full-length movies -- as well as Criterion's extras, from the accompanying essays to the directors' commentaries, behind-the-scenes vids, and short features -- on demand.