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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 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Making Copyright Contingent for Porn
Ann Bartow (on Sivacracy) points to a new article available on SSRN entitled Pornography, Coercion, and Copyright Law 2.0. Bartow argues that, particularly with the growth of user-generated erotica, there is an increased potential for people to be depicted–either at all or in particular contexts–without their consent. To curb this abuse, she argues copyright should [...]
Art gallery frequenters
Sorting through some of my old papers from when I was a graduate student, I find an exercise one of our professors (John Bowes) had us do, sorting through some of the General Social Survey. The following sentence leaps out from my analysis: Those who visit art galleries, when compared to those who don’t, are: [...]
Festo AirJelly
You know how to get my attention: encephalopod robot dirigibles Those three keywords are enough to get me excited. But who wouldn’t get excited by this:
The fairest of them all
Look at the images to the right and pick the one you find most attractive. I know, they are all dashing. But many psychological studies have suggested that we find faces with more symmetry (as well as faces closer to the “average” face) to be more attractive. Also, it seems more attractive people get higher [...]
New York and Formal Infrastructure
New York is a great place to live, in large part because of the informal infrastructure: the texture of neighborhoods that deftly interweaves the past, the present, and the future; the “texture,” for want of a better word, that New Yorkers seem to love, and visitors often dismiss as “grime” or urban decay. Call it [...]
Kudos to (ex) Chronicle Staff!
The administration at Quinnipiac, uncomfortable with some of the stories reported by their students in the campus newspaper, has taken a series of steps to gain closer control over the content of the paper. They have clearly indicated that they want student media to be independent of the university, but what this really means is [...]
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