Nerd alert!

30Sep08

All screen Mac being developed.  Mock Ups imagined here.
Where was your favorite album recorded?  Map imagined here.
Crazy quiz on hue.  A hue test!

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Instead of a basic competencies test…

29Sep08

Earlier in the week, my facebooked self was ruminating about giving Sarah Palin a basic competencies test.  In the wake of her confusing claims to “foreign policy experience” and her occasional deer-in-the-headlights interview persona, plus that awful awful interview with Katie “The Cougar” Couric…well, it had crossed my mind that the prospective Veep might not [...]

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Little Women, Big Dollars

27Sep08

Thanks to sociology (ish) blog newbie Abject Lessen, Object Lesson, I have been made aware of the fantastically crass series “Target Women” over at Current TV.  The best description I can provide of these videos is that they’re like funnier, more media-rich versions of a class lecture, on one of the days we handle gender [...]

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The Naturalist Turn in Sociology

27Sep08

In 1965, Doctor Peter Witt delivered small doses of several common mood-effecting substances to a set of common Wood Spiders, known for their web-building prowess.  Here are the results of his study, where the dependent variables include both the quality and type of web (an aesthetic measure, as it were) and social and behavioral effects.  [...]

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Wiki Wiki Wah Wiki Wah

26Sep08

As you head into the weekend, I want you to remember that the Renewed Mind is the Key to the Christ in Me.  Thanks to the SS for keepin’ it real.

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Crazy, awesome

24Sep08

Is this video of people photographed at 1000 frames a second. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but something REALLY cool happens.

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I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch.

24Sep08

It turns out that there are now agencies that specialize in getting product placements into the lyrics of popular songs.  We know this because one such agency (The Kluger Agency, to be precise) sent a “cold call” email, promoting said services, to the Anti-Advertising Agency.  More about them in a second, but first and just [...]

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The Long View

24Sep08

I find this cheerful little piece on university teaching truly terrifying.  Perhaps it is because I got my “five year pin” (yes, you read that correctly), today.  Perhaps it is also because I had three gossipers, two Facebookers, several “absence due to illness/surgery/dead grandmother” emails, and an irate student who couldn’t articulate the nature of [...]

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And Russia, too!

23Sep08

Unfortunately, the Vanity Fair profile on Putin is one of the articles unavailable on-line, but is worth the cover price.

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This just in, from Myanmar

23Sep08

So-called “political prisoners” freed, over 9,000 of them, according to the Myanmar government.  This includes long-term prisoner and author Win Tin.  However, Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest, and more added, every day.

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