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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 2 days ago
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Monthly Archives: June 2002
Results are in
Evaluations are back from spring semester. A mixed bag. Written responses can be found here.
If memory serves me right…
Check out the “Iron Chef Drinking Game.” I am still dumbfounded that someone thought that the format of the show was its selling point and that an American version starring William Shatner ever got funded.
A Modest Grant Proposal
I put together a proposal to fund research for a book about automated public opinion gathering from the Net and sent it off to the Smith Richardson Foundation. The executive summary follows:
Sequel, then original, then book
This is the review I submitted to IMDB for the Bourne Identity. The short version: rental, unless you’ve never seen the original film or read the book and are desperate :).
Posted in General Tagged Entertainment, Fiction, Film, IMDB, Julia Stiles, Mission: Impossible, Mystery films, Narratology, Plot, Ronin, Spy films, Suspension of disbelief, The Bourne Identity, United States Leave a comment
Life Immitating Art?
What would you do if you were accused of a murder, you had not committed… yet? (tagline for the new Fox film Minority Report) “Jose Padilla, the American citizen accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ in the U.S., is just one of many ‘would-be killers’ the United States has arrested, President Bush [...]
Posted in Policy & Politics Tagged Bush, Dirty bomb, Islam, Jose Padilla, Judicial Event, National security, Nuclear terrorism, Nuclear weapons, Politics, president, United States Leave a comment
Creating Buffalo
An article in the Buffalo News today discusses how Richard Florida’s ideas about the creative class might affect Buffalo. It’s a little funny that this has been so embraced here, given that Buffalo (and it seems Florida was once a prof here) ends up the fourth from the bottom of the list of creative cities.
Minority Report