Archive for August, 2007
this map stuff has hardly gone far enough
Being in my own little bubble, I didn’t know about the Miss Teen South Carolina maps gaff until yesterday. It blew my mind. For those who haven’t seen it (via Morning Toast): Collin Brooke has a pretty good discussion about “teaching to the test” and how this woman was given a question that none of [...]
aids ads getting creative
Via Queerty.com, InventorSpot posts some fascinating AIDS awareness ads from Europe, including this one: These ads are pretty shocking, and I especially like this one, for how emaciated and deathly Wonder Woman looks — and the statement below that “AIDS makes us all equal.” Some of these ads are pretty provocative (check out the links [...]
once again, another claim that men are oppressed too
My friend Ruben posts a link to New York Times blogger John Tierney’s post about Roy Baumeister’s APA talk “Is There Anything Good About Men”. Baumeister’s talk includes this passage in his introduction: But rather than seeing culture as patriarchy, which is to say a conspiracy by men to exploit women, I think it’s more [...]
Lethem’s “The Ecstasy of Influence”
Neurological study has lately shown that memory, imagination, and consciousness itself is stitched, quilted, pastiched. If we cut-and-aste our selves, might we not forgive it of our artworks? (Lethem 68) I just finished February 2007′s Harper’s and there was a series of great essays on copyright, citation, and appropriation. If you’re not a Harper’s reader, [...]
powerpoint is teh evil
I’m not a huge fan of PowerPoint. I tend to use Apple’s Keynote, which I think is a lot more presentation and design friendly, but occasionally I turn to PowerPoint (esp. when working with others or when it’s something I’m going to have to email out). Over the last few years, there’s been plenty written [...]
tag cloud of the thesis
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dear reader
It is, admittedly, hard to write this. Since turning in my thesis at 2:00 pm on Friday (70 hours ago), I haven’t written anything but an abstract, instant messages, phone text messages, a reply to one email, two very short comments on blog posts, and a short poem. This is not a lot considering how [...]
some test results
I decided to take some online tests after I saw that Pedagogical Gregory did so:
