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Insignificant Wranglings
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We’ve Run Out of TV
Meg and I are regular TV watchers, but, through the magic of netflix, we’re running out of quality TV. Lost–season over. House–season over. Battlestar Galactica–gone forever (its still to soon for me to talk about it). Dexter–we’re all caught up. … Continue reading
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I (Still) Love You Papi
This is uncomfortable. I don’t want to break up or anything, but I think we need to take a break from each other. Or, at least, think about moving things around. Maybe you could get your own place… In short: … Continue reading
Lost reference
In the spirit of playing the game (and thus, Casey might say, denying the experience), I’ll posit that Jacob reading a book drawing its title from a radical Christian teleologist is probably not coincidental. Especially given Jacob’s line about how … Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Lost
Before tonight’s show, I wanted to share my theory on this season: that Jack has already “missed” his opportunity. I believe the entire series now revolves around Jack saving the young Benjamin Linus, preventing him from ever joining the others. … Continue reading
Proof the Web3.0 will be a smashing success:
Like customization? How about personalized beer bottles (via SILYP).
Course Evaluations
Today is the last day of class at USF, so I passed around a course evaluation of my own design. This semester my class has focused on “digital citizenship”: students maintained a blog all semester long dedicated to a topic/hobby … Continue reading
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Free Your TV?
My wife and I always complain about our insane cable bill, but we’re both TV junkies–so what’s our alternatives? Well, it looks like “internet-TV” is about to take a huge step forward. Via /. via NYT, Adobe is about to … Continue reading
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Clinton on Johnson is Really about Rhetoric
Stephen Johnson has a neat post today on Bill Clinton’s reaction to The Invention of Air. I haven’t had a chance to read this one yet, but I am looking forward to it this summer. Anyways, in his praise for … Continue reading
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Help Support Net Neutrality
I posted this to Facebook yesterday, and a few people have passed it on. Time Warner, a large ISP, is making a serious political and legal effort to counter net neutrality. I am presuming they are attempting this early in … Continue reading
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Hi There, Let’s Talk Google
I’ve been writing in other places and neglecting the blog, but I thought I might try to spend some quality time here. To get started, there’s an interesting story over at the NYTimes on the Google library project. I have … Continue reading