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Insignificant Wranglings
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A Small Old-Fashioned American Hero
Its been awhile since I’ve written on the RIAA and ip, but a great story on how ISP’s are resisting the RIAA’s insane plan came across /. this mornin. We can also cast Jerry Scroggin as the everyman hero in … Continue reading
Global Information Killed the Local Newspaper Star
James Surowiecki has a nice and short article in this month’s New Yorker on the death of newspapers. For those who remember Danny Devito in Other People’s Money, its pretty much the buggy whip argument (movie is down below, skip … Continue reading
Posted in digital-media, internet, surowiecki, web2.0
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Cover Bands
A few posts ago I talked about my love of cover bands. Today a list of the “top cover bands of all-time” cam across Coudal. I forgot how much I like Dread Zeppelin (the Rondellus was quirky, Nouvelle Vague kinda … Continue reading
Posted in music
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Gay Marriage vs. Civil Unions
Kristen had a nice post on Huckabee’s recent appearance on the Daily Show. I wrote this as a response there, but wanted to publish it here as well. I do so a bit hesitantly, knowing what a charged topic this … Continue reading
To my students…One more(s) time….
So I’m grading final papers. You italicize or underline a major work, such as a book, journal, or magazine. You quote a part of that work, such as an article. You italicize or underline a major work, such as a … Continue reading
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Someone Tell Me If I Like This…
Something bugs me about this video. I watch a lot of the “times-they-are-a-changin’” videos, but don’t know what to make of this. But my Blink sense is tingling… Since I’m teaching my digital citizenship course next semester, I think I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in cool, digital-media, internet, movies, technology, web2.0, youtube
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Rhetoric v. Philosophy Take 1702931
Read this Machiavelli quote over at Cracked and thought it offered another (mock-Aristotelian?) way for thinking about philosophy’s Idealism against rhetoric’s pragmatism: there are two means of fighting: one according to the laws, the other with force; the first way … Continue reading
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Funny Doesn’t Belong There
I often find myself trying to come to terms with my love of rhetoric; to the point that I try to find traces of this love littered throughout my entire life’s narrative. One such trace, I tell myself, is my … Continue reading
EFF vs USA (with a little Kant)
In “Preventing-1984-in-2008” news, the Bush administration and the EFF will be squaring off today. At stake: whether ISPs should be legally accountable for illegally (or “homeland security legally”) passing information to the NSA. Panopticonic issues withstanding, I think this is … Continue reading
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Sure its too easy, but its still funny
I normally don’t waste time with Bush bashing, its sort of like challenging a sixth grader to a steel cage match, but this shit is too funny.