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Insignificant Wranglings
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Penny Arcade on DRM and Piracy
An outstanding post today over at Penny Arcade dealing with Ubisoft’s most recent measure to combat piracy. Essentially, the game requires you to have constant access to the internet–any break in connectivity, and “poof” you lose all your progress. I … Continue reading
Posted in ip, videogames
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Climategate…
…clearly the work of some committed philosophizers, right Casey? I’m glad John Quiggin has the rhetorical ability to set the record straight. But, seriously, yeeesh.
Posted in politics, rhetoric, this-is-not-ok
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Lanham on Style
Here’s some brief snippets from Richard Lanham’s 1974 Style: An Anti-Textbook. 30 years old, Lanham’s scathing assessment on the academic and public valuing of prose style perhaps rings more true today than at the time of its publication (during the … Continue reading
First Sentences
My two writing classes today were focused on writing first sentences. I compiled a few resources to provide lens’ for examining all the first sentences they had written the previous week. From an article over at A Tate Publishing Blog, … Continue reading
Posted in digital-citizenship, pedagogy, teaching
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Facing Myself
Casey posted a response to my post yesterday to Facebook. I ripped out a rather long reply, but Facebook is having difficulties. So (sorry Casey), I’ll just move the conversation here. Casey responded to yesterday’s post with: Santos: I’ve been … Continue reading
Maniacal Laughter
I’ve always really liked the title to Davis’ work Breaking Up [at] Totality for its playfulness and visual pun (follow the link to see the cover). Of course, I also enjoy the Gorgian–Cixiousian sentiment of the book: laughing in the … Continue reading
Disney’s Avatar?
I recently saw Avatar and must say I enjoyed it. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think this “review” of the film isn’t funny as hell.
Successful Surgery
Rowan had her medical port removed this morning after being cancer free for over a year. The surgery was very quick (about a half hour) and she is feeling fine (singing along with Dora as I write). It has been … Continue reading
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Robertson is Crazy
Sometimes rhetoric is just about identification, and I hope that subject line identifies me properly. Robertson probably doesn’t warrant any more analysis than what Olbermann provided, but Scott McLemee over at Crooked Timber has an interesting piece that examines the … Continue reading
A Brief Definition of Rhetoric
Today was Jim Corder day in my Digital Citizenship/Expository Writing classes. I use the Corder piece to provide a substantial definition for rhetoric–since I study one of the few things in a University that people rarely recognize. If you study … Continue reading
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