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Tweets
- RT @kjhealy: The scary things that can happen when you attempt to film Swedish police officers: http://bit.ly/b8Kus7 3 hours ago
- NYS to get wireless--believe it when I see the bars: http://is.gd/dTiwi 4 hours ago
- Daft Punk's Tron Legacy sountrack leaked: http://is.gd/dTf3m 5 hours ago
- I need to either learn more languages or trim my twitter feeds. Guess which one will win? 1 day ago
- No net yesterday *should* mean I got lots of work done, if we agree that the net is a distraction. Nope. 1 day ago
- Twitter peer review? http://needle.csail.mit.edu/wgat/ 2 days ago
- RT @eszter: trust in SEs paper http://webuse.org/p/a30 has gotten some press: http://bit.ly/drFMPx http://bit.ly/cyg1k8 http://bit.ly/bhjNnD 2 days ago
- RT @PublicAgenda: The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers http://nyti.ms/ar1xL9 Teaching For A Living http://bit.ly/6ZMoTS 2 days ago
- Interesting column (and comments) on the virtues and dangers of anonymity in comments (and Buff News experiment): http://is.gd/dOJz6 2 days ago
Archives
Tag Archives: Culture
Don’t weeze the thaumaturgical juice
As my Mom notes earlier this week, the royal touch is regarded as capable of curing, so you aren’t supposed to, as Michele Obama did, touch the Queen, because this could lead to a reduction in her healing juice, or something. Or at least that is the interpretation that Time offers for ruffled British feathers. [...]
When weird is normal
It is, I think, a reasonable corollary of symbolic interactionism, that you are only as smart as the people around you. Some of that smart rubs off, and even if it doesn’t you see yourself, and become yourself, through their eyes. As a strategy, therefore, it’s a good idea to surround yourself with smart people.
The [...]
Very Mashed
I generally use the video for the Gray Album when I talk about the cultural effects of mash-ups. I’d love to use this in class instead, but I suspect it would be… less than appropriate. Equal parts brilliant and deeply disturbing.
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Suitless future
You know what people in the future used to wear? Jumpsuits and shorts. By Blade Runner and Fifth Element, we had pretty much done away with that. But in a future in which air conditioning is shunned as unhealthy for ourselves or our planet, can we assume folks will be trading in their three-season wool [...]
Does Adlai Stevenson matter?