Archive for February 11th, 2008

Power crazy senior general

wiredpoet.jpgThat drippy little valentine that pierced the heart of the power crazy oppressor of Burma.

DIY video dispatch

A the USC 24/7 DIY Summit this weekend, the speakers managed overwhelmingly not to be academic droners. Mike Wesch, one of an increasing number of internet-famous professors (The Machine is Us/ing Us and more recently A Vision of Students Today), presented some of the YouTube ethnographic research he and his students at Kansas State University [...]

Bye pig, hello rat!

Occasional contributor and facts-and-figures fiend Foster Landis writes after the weekend caucuses with this eye opener: according to Meet the Press, which was aired before results from the Maine tallies came in, the Obama and Clinton campaigns are separated nationwide by a mere 200,000 votes, which is just crazy, given that roughly thirty states worth [...]

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