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Monthly Archives: July 2005
Chimera Discrimination
First they came for the chimeras:
S. 659: The Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005
On March 17, Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), introduced S. 659, the Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005. The bill would prohibit any person from creating, or attempting to create a human chimera. A “human chimera†is broadly defined to include various methods [...]
Guardian Erototoxins
The Guardian had a silly article on Judith Reisman’s arguments that porn produces “erototoxins” and should be regulated as a dangerous drug. Today they printed a short note I wrote in response:
Mark Pilkington (Far out, July 14) writes that Judith Reisman is concerned about “an addictive drug cocktail of testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin with [...]
How to break in?
Finally, they say, “It’s hard to make a name for yourself in Paris.” Lie! Nothing is easier today. Published every morning, printed every week are a hundred enemy journals and twenty rival reviews that do nothing but talk, and which esteem themselves only too happy when you want to furnish them with some amusing pages [...]
Afternoon distractions
Some entertaining distractions:
* Installing democracy in the Middle East
* Quicktime animation of “le building,” an entertaining Rubist short.
* Why is it that my students never break into song in my classes?
* A Japanese attempt to take over the world by giving them all repetitive stress injuries. (If not obvious, the object of the game [...]
Ran the gauntlet
Kudos go to one of my advisees, Jack Rosenberry, who today successfully defended his dissertation, entitled (for now!) The Fourth Estate in the Networked Age: How Online Journalism Can Promote Civic Discourse. Despite some slight videochat irregularities (one of the committee members was distant), the defense went pretty smoothly. Jack has already presented a few [...]
Faking a podcast
Talkr lets you podcast without actually recording anything. It takes one of your existing feeds and uses text-to-speech to create a version of the RSS feed with Audio enclosures. Here is mine. I’m not a big fan of text-to-speech, but this is actually pretty listenable. Heck, they even get my name right.
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