Archive for February, 2008
stuff white people like
While I was visiting Michigan State’s campus last week, quite a few grad students were talking about the blog Stuff White People Like. When I got back home, I checked it out. It’s an hilarious site that chronicles the behaviors of white people, poking fun at them. For Instance, from Being the Only White Person [...]
the dove self esteem fund
Via the amazing Nathan Buck, this feminist YouTube video on the media and beauty industry: I don’t know a lot about Dove’s Self Esteem Fund, but I think this ad is pretty impressive — especially because it is so quick and such an onslaught of images.
notes from the chronicle
Interesting stuff: • I have to laugh at this. To laugh is not very charitable to the instructor. I too would be a bit peeved if the technology I used lost the grades for an exam, or any project. However, I kind of detest these clickers that are becoming ubiquitous in large lecture halls. There [...]
page 123 meme
This has been circulating the blogs: The rules of engagement are as follows: a) Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. b) Find page 123. c) Find the first 5 sentences and read them. d) Post the next 3 sentences. But the fact that there are those who will exploit such a [...]
notes from the interblags: comics!
Oh, public discourse: • Problems debating those who are “irrational”? Debate in a clown suit! • A reason I sometimes stay up too late: someone is wrong on the Internet
banning wikipedia: irresponsible
David Perry has an editorial up on Science Progress in which he argues that it’s irresponsible to ban Wikipedia at a school: And this is why digital literacy is so crucial for educational institutions: we do a fundamental disservice to our students if we continue to propagate old methods of knowledge creation and archivization without [...]
banished: 60 years of making your hometown white
Chuck Tryon reminds us to watch Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings, a PBS Documentary that starts airing on February 19. The film documents the actions of white folk in various counties in the United States that expelled African Americans between 1864 and 1923. PBS offers an interactive map about these counties and some resources for discussions [...]
construction
i’ve felt this way walking on campus before. well, not quite this severe.
notes from the interblags: the childish edition
I want to write extensively on these, but given time constraints, I’ll just give some links and let you think, with perhaps a bit of musing from myself: • There is a viral video going around that is supposed to be disgusting. Viz. refers to it as “That-Viral-Video-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named.” I particularly like the response at Viz. [...]
“lesbians leave their footprint on other people’s faces”
I just finished reading For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology by tatiana de la tierra, a fantastic collection of poems (prose poems? a manifesto [sic]? a “wishful thinking”? tatiana de la tierra admits herself that it is hard to classify this book [65]). More accurately, I read half of the book, for the poems [...]
