Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Makeup Your Mind: Reflections On Cosmetics And Sport Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue

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A level playing field may apply in sports, but not in gender relations. Sports Illustrated's annual paean to impossible feminine perfect...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

On Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

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I am happy to see my 2007 article about Ray Bradbury and his novel, Fahrenheit 451, cited as part a bibilography connected with the Nationa...
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Performance Enhancing Drugs

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In case you've been sleeping for the last 42 years, this Sunday the sports/media event known as the Super Bowl takes place. This penult...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Spawn of the Terminator

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The Terminator franchise finds new worlds to conquer In the recent TV resurrection of the Terminator trilogy, The Sara Connors Chronicles , ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Missing White House E-Mail Tapes

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Claims of missing e-mails tapes flies in the face of professional data center practices. A recent issue of the Washington Post (available he...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Meta-Four-Play: McLuhan's Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss's Canonical Formula Part 2.

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In my previous post I suggested that there is a fundamental similarity between Marshall McLuhan’s Tetrad and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Canonical...
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Monday, January 7, 2008

Four Play: McLuhan's Tetrad and Lévi-Strauss's Canonical Formula

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It is, perhaps, an unspoken assumption in Media Ecology that there are no differences in the intellectual capabilities of peoples of differe...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Intelligent Design

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Whither Goest Thou Today? To: All Users From: Intelligent Design Support Center (AKA IDSC) Subject: Reality (Version 2008) As of 1/1/2008 ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

On Paul Levinson and the FCC

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A contrarian stance on media consolidation points out the failures of our Fourth Estate. My friend and fellow blog critic Paul Levinson (au...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Sakai and Social Networking

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I'm attending the 2007 Sakai Conference in California this week. The Sakai Foundation, a consortium of colleges and universities, over...
Monday, November 26, 2007

My Blogging Milestone (Part 5): What Dick Cheney and I have in Common

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Updated below In conjunction of the Associated Press’s report that Dick Cheney has been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, here is my sligh...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

My Blogging Milesone (Part 4): The End of the American Republic

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The recent Pakistani constitutional crises provides me with an opportunity to reiterate some political observations concerning our own democ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2007

My 1000th Visitor

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If you look to the left you'll notice that my sitemeter has just registered my 1000th visitor. Whoever you are, if you contact me offlin...
Friday, October 26, 2007

The Bionic Woman Meets James Joyce

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I'm taking a brief respite (or am I giving my readers a brief respite?) from my reviews of past postings to ask an important mass cultur...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

My Bad: My Other Blogging Milestone (Part 2)

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(Updated below) Well, according to my blog host's count, I haven't posted 68 entries to this blog, I've posted 89 (including the...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

My Blogging Milestone (Part 1)

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Well, according to the archive list below and to the left of this post, I've penned 68 entries to this blog since I started it in Decemb...