January 2012
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Jonathan Franzen is worried about e-books. Should...
At the Hay festival in Cartagena, Colombia, acclaimed author Jonathan
Franzen discussed at length the woes of increasingly popular e-books (1):
“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right,
just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it
in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change
that, move it around. So for a...
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No posts today - stop SOPA/PIPA →
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What Occupy can learn from the Hunger Games by... →
This is a fascinating examination not only of the popularity of dystopian novels among modern young adults and how that reading, from Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games to Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta, affect their perceptions of the real social issues we face today:
Unlike in escapist fantasies such as “Star Wars,” where the rebels unambiguously deserve our support as...
SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA... →
MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBC have dedicated no time to covering the Stop Online Piracy Act in their evening newscasts since Oct. 1, according to a report by Ben Dimiero of Media Matters For America.
CNN, meanwhile, has dedicated a single evening news segment to the issue. All of the companies covered in the report have either publicly supported SOPA or have parent companies that have done...
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Would Alabama and LSU have played if UA had won...
After last night’s 21-0 win over LSU, Alabama is enjoying it’s 2,342th national championship win. The two teams facing each other again has been a contentious topic after the teams’ November 5th 9-6 ‘game of the century.’ My theory is that we would not have seen a match up if the Crimson Tide had edged out the Tigers. This is because the BCS is basically an arbitrary...
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