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Tweets
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 1 day ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 1 day ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 2 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 3 days ago
- I believe it is presently colder in my office than it is outside. But they have screwed shut my window, so I can't check. 4 days ago
- Chatting with Ron & Jon about "interactive media" on Hangout live. (Still getting a handle on the process.) http://t.co/0V7qKRIF 6 days ago
- Seems that an old blog post of mine, "Does Mitt Romney Hate Noodles" is suddenly getting new traffic: http://t.co/ELSrWuHG 6 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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