Tag: Culture
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Ms. Doonesbury’s Lament or Why She Can’t Take Our Class – Henry Jenkins:
Wherein we live in a world in which an MIT prof can respond to a Doonesbury MIT plotline on his blog, then run a contest involving mashing up the strip. I like this world. Ms. Doonesbury’s Lament or Why She Can’t Take Our Class – Henry Jenkins:
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So I don’t get it wrong again
Here’s the physics joke I’m always trying to retell: Professor Heisenberg is cruising along the highway when he suddenly gets pulled over. The motorcycle cop sidles up to Heisenberg’s window. Heisenberg rolls it down. “Do you have any idea how fast you were going?” asks the cop. “I have no idea,” Heisenberg replies. “But I…
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank
Banksy makes me want to be a better subversive. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank
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Laptop Slides Into Bed in Love Triangle – New York Times
I’ve never brought the laptop to bed, I swear. Which is good for my marriage. Laptop Slides Into Bed in Love Triangle – New York Times
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All your snakes are belong to us
It works on so many levels… [youtube]ihAoSwQqo44[/youtube] This is the part where I’m supposed to make some intelligent comment about how the nature of the Web, social networking, cheap bandwidth, and digital video are encouraging content creation and remixing on an unprecedented scale, but I think I’ll skip that in favor of snaking about the…
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Doing the South(east) Asia thing
No, not me, but lots of my friends this summer. Daniel went to Nepal, Diana went to the Phillipines, Kent went all over the place, and Tom is back in Laos, after rambles all over Thailand and Myanmar and those sorts of places. All of them are photographers or writers or both, and not just…
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Making the inconvenient accessible
We finally made it out to see An Inconvenient Truth last night. Remind me again why Al Gore isn’t running for President in 2008? Sorry, but I haven’t heard a good enough reason. Personally, I’d like to see him grow his beard back, put on a flannel shirt and a pair of jeans, and go…
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Organic Food industry org chart
Who owns the companies that produce your favorite organic food brands? Organic Food industry org chart
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Independence Day
It’s July 4th in Santa Cruz, which means thousands of pie-eyed tourists will be giving the locals puzzled looks when they tell them there are no fireworks here tonight. More accurately… there are no sanctioned fireworks here tonight. Santa Cruz, for whatever reason, decided years ago to not put on any sort of official fireworks…