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Insignificant Wranglings
Author Archives: insignificantwrangler@gmail.com
New Media, Video Games, and Interactivity
Feels like forever since I put up a quality post, hope to change that today. I’ve been copyediting a forthcoming book on new media and its impact on traditional conceptions of mind and body. Essentially, the author convincingly argues that … Continue reading
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DIS iz crAZ
One technolog that I haven’t adopted is text messaging. I must admit, I don’t get it. Why not just call someone? O.k., enough grumpy old chat, but I came across an interesting post today by a secondary teacher who instructs … Continue reading
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Steven Johnson Interview
While his new book doesn’t sound as appealing to me as some of his other work, one of my favorite writers is back. Found a link to a very cool interview today. Good stuff. I like Johnson’s work because he … Continue reading
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Japan will never be the same
I’ve been having a really good week: I deposited my prospectus, set a defense date, won a multimedia writing award, gave a conference presentation without reading from a paper or notes, received a summer research grant, and got a job … Continue reading
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Another Top Ten: Albums
Sure its cliche, but I was thinking about this today on the drive into school–the ole “what ten albums would you take to a desert island?” question. Here’s what I’m packing, in chronological order. Miles Davis, Kind of Blue, 1959 … Continue reading
Just so you realize where I come from…
My wife is a member of a local baby group, recently a Red Sox and a Yankee fan have been engaging in some good natured ribbing. The Red Sox fan recently shared this photo of her son at his first … Continue reading
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Oh yeah, that’s progress
Got the new North American Levinas Society up and running, still needs some beta testing and some proofing, but I’m pretty pleased. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mcsantos/levinas/index.html I used some pretty cool Fireworks techniques (when I launched this blog it was to publish tutorial … Continue reading
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Back from NYC
Sigh. Good, no–great pizza. Dunkin’ Donuts (jelly, of course–and great ice coffee, the kind made double strength and chilled overnight). People were rude to me, it was great. Sigh.. I’ll have a longer post coming later today–while I was in … Continue reading
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TagCrowd
Came across this webtool on Colin Brooke’s blog: good, clean fun. It will read any plain text document (and you can just cut and paste from a Word document). Here’s what my prospectus looks like as a tag cloud: already … Continue reading
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Mike Greenberg & Wikipedia
Earlier this morning Mike Greenberg ripped Wikipedia on his ESPN radio show. I couldn’t take it, so here’s my response: Subject: Wikipedia and people Greenie’s problem isn’t with Wikipedia, its with people, bad people. He is potentially a bad person. … Continue reading
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