Went and saw the Brazilian Girls with Michelle last night. Good show. Great venue.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Marriage
the marriage vow has been used for centuries to consecrate rape, enslavement, pedophilia, and business contracts, but you don't want to sully it by joining two healthy people who love each other. Rather than rejecting them, you should be begging them to join just to keep it holy (on balance).
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
from a student's answer
journalists as "stenographers to power"
"Perhaps in the future all textbooks will be nothing more than learning through fun and games, too? (please?)"
"Perhaps in the future all textbooks will be nothing more than learning through fun and games, too? (please?)"
Monday, May 12, 2008
neophytes
"You're such a neophyte," she announced over her shoulder.
"You're the neophyte," he quietly stumbled and got on the elevator behind her.
"You're the neophyte," he quietly stumbled and got on the elevator behind her.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
vectors
In the public forum "park" discussion presented by Sunstein, people may take many streets to enter the park based on there points of origin and destinations. These represent vectors that bring them in contact with some public expression that is happening. Depending on how accessible/relevant the expression is, they internalize some amount of the performance.
On the internet, these "street" vectors are called by search elements input by users who then follow where they lead. The "parks" on the internet are web pages. For my example, the youtube page is a public forum (park) situated at the intersection of multiple vectors. (this means that there are a lot of parks which would seem to support the notion of technology leading to fragmentation; however, the fact that these public forums operate asynchronously means that the same individual may simultaneously operate in multiple forums.)
Despite the fact that they are intended directions, some search results may lead to unintended (or at least not fully intended) content. For example, someone searching for AMVs may come across an old song they've never heard before or vice versa.
Sunstein was talking about the daily me which accessing pre-set aggregators of links. two points: one, this is not the only way people use the interent. It forgets that users also may use the net to get information (use search engines) which may not be as easily narrowed across a single set of websites (points of view); and two, how rarefied is the content that most of us view?
On the internet, these "street" vectors are called by search elements input by users who then follow where they lead. The "parks" on the internet are web pages. For my example, the youtube page is a public forum (park) situated at the intersection of multiple vectors. (this means that there are a lot of parks which would seem to support the notion of technology leading to fragmentation; however, the fact that these public forums operate asynchronously means that the same individual may simultaneously operate in multiple forums.)
Despite the fact that they are intended directions, some search results may lead to unintended (or at least not fully intended) content. For example, someone searching for AMVs may come across an old song they've never heard before or vice versa.
Sunstein was talking about the daily me which accessing pre-set aggregators of links. two points: one, this is not the only way people use the interent. It forgets that users also may use the net to get information (use search engines) which may not be as easily narrowed across a single set of websites (points of view); and two, how rarefied is the content that most of us view?
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