Monthly Archives: August 2006

Bespoke Blogging: Elmwood Strip

By alex | Published: 8/24/2006

Congratulations go to Paul Visco, who presented his MFA project to his committee (Josephine Anstey [chair], Loss PequeÃ±o Glazier, and me) today. The project, which I’ve written about before, is the Elmwood strip community site, which has existed in various incarnations since 2002. The initial site was started as part of a Virtual Communities class, [...]

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Jet Blue: Arabic = Terrorism?

By alex | Published: 8/24/2006

If this is true, Jet Blue has some serious explaining to do. Raed Jarrar wore a T-shirt on his flight from JFK to Oakland reading “We will not be silent” in English and Arabic. The Jet Blue staff (and possibly others) disagreed, and told him he had to remove or cover up his shirt if [...]

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Movie: The Protector

By alex | Published: 8/20/2006

Went out to the Museum of the Moving Image to see a pre-release screening of The Protector, second film–after Ong-bak–in which Tony Jaa plays a starring role. The curator of the martial arts series at the museum makes the case for Jaa being the “it” martial arts star of the 00s. Bruce Lee had the [...]

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NY Times providing child porn

By alex | Published: 8/19/2006

A lot of newspapers have been shy to link outside of their own news organization: so much so that it is almost a truism. They followed the corporate credo of keeping users on the site. That has changed over the last few years, with more and more traditional news sites willing to include hyperlinks. The New [...]

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Instead of blogging

By alex | Published: 8/18/2006

So, I haven’t been blogging because I need to: 1. Religious blogging paper. Finish my part of the data analysis and writing for a co-authored paper to be presented at AIR next month. It’s way overdue. (I might do some posts on this once the analysis is done.) 2. AIR Membership systems. There were “issues” with tracking [...]

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Your lips say no, but…

By alex | Published: 8/15/2006

Mark Frank joined the faculty at UB a year before I left. Seemed to be doing some really interesting work, and had a cool lab to play with. Had a chance to poke around just before I left, and they are doing some fun stuff. Now you can do a quick visit too. CBS News ran [...]

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What not to bring

By alex | Published: 8/14/2006

I was a little bit freaked out about not being able to bring my computer on the trip to Australia next month. It’s a lot of time to spend in the air with very little to do, so I had planned on finishing off a couple of books and still doing some writing. Luckily, according to [...]

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