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Insignificant Wranglings
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Steve Jobs Rocks
What rocks more than Jobs’ 90 minute talk? This great 60 second remix of his 90 minute talk. I love how the entire world seems willing and able to accommodate my growing attention deficit disorder.
Video Games, Narrative, and Hollywood
So, although I really don’t have time to write this, I have to react to the recent article in the LA Times warning movie executives to stay away from video games. I found the discussion over at Joystiq. Here’s a … Continue reading
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(Quick n Dirty) Search Tools
To friends- yeah, I haven’t posted in awhile. I’ll try to get something up here soon. This post is for my research methods class, I’m hiding it from them to see how they search the net on their own. Google, … Continue reading
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Blogging as Composition
Since I’m another of the mad scientists who birthed this approach, I’ll throw in some quick reflections. For those who don’t know, three colleagues and I piloted a new approach to introductory composition this past fall. 80 students were divided … Continue reading
Sane Intellectual Property Laws, Take 237
Here’s a follow-up to my rant over at Mxrk the other day (which followed up a rant during an MLA interview), my first intellectual property rant of 2008. Chances are it shouldn’t be the last- though daughter and dissertations will … Continue reading
Wait…what
The Pats are comfortably handling Miami so I’m surfing the web for comics (following a conversation at lunch last week). For some reason I need to share this with the world [you can click on the post title to see … Continue reading
Nintendo needs to hire Johnny Chung Lee
I’ve spent the last couple of days playing the online mode of Medal of Honor Heroes 2. Nothing special (it really suffers from a lack of player communication–no voice plus grenades equals frustration. But the immersive wii interface makes the … Continue reading
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One in a billion (of billions)
Today science loses one of its most significant public speakers. In an age in which science and technology becomes exponentially more complex, we need more people like Sagan who can connect university research to the general public. I just finished … Continue reading
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I Am Legend
Incredible. I give a big thumbs up to Warner Bros. marketing department for not giving anything away in their commercials. I hadn’t read the book, so it was fresh to me. This is the best movie I’ve seen in a … Continue reading
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Show about Nothing
As a baseball fan and a rhetorician, I feel compelled to write something on the Mitchell report. But since I’m in the midst of grading, and my baby’s making that “you better be ready to pick me up” face, I’ll … Continue reading
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