The Diebold Variations

Even if Kerry "wins" the Republicans have a failsafe---touch screen voting.

Theory.org.uk trading cards

Just what we all need to while away these long summer afternoons, a little g&t and a little crittheory card games. Have fun.

The Independent Weekly: With trembling fingers: "The irreducible truth is that the invasion of Iraq was the worst blunder, the most staggering miscarriage of judgment, the most fateful, egregious, deceitful abuse of power in the history of American foreign policy. If you don't believe it yet, just keep watching. Apologists strain to dismiss parallels with Vietnam, but the similarities are stunning. In every action our soldiers kill innocent civilians, and in every other action apparent innocents kill our soldiers--and there's never any way to sort them out. And now these acts of subhuman sadism, these little My Lais. "

What more is there to say when hope is gone?

Tiny Mix TapesThis is so much fun. Time to crank up the p2p and get some of these mixes together.

Cool tool via Kevin Kelly 

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools: "The ultimate lightweight backpacking camp light. A tiny 4 gram chip sits atop a regular alkaline 9-volt battery which acts as body, handle, stand and power source. "

Instructor Resources

Where oh where are they now? Carrie, Derek, Shaun? Art thou working? Art thou playing in the fields of the Lord? Art thou getting jiggy with it? Pray tell. 

The road to my home. 

Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay

Been here, done this, good to know someone else is with me.

James Joyce Music in Ulysses | Dubliners | A Portrait | Finnegans Wake

Music to soothe Pog's savage beast.

The CCI Dictionary - Chat Symbols

Got acronymphobia? Don't go here. SETE=smiling ear to ear, TIC=tongue in cheek

John Seely Brown storytelling narrative social network complexity knowledge: "Yesterday I heard an amazing comment from a 16 year old named Colin. Colin said: 'I don't want to study Rome in high school. Hell, I build Rome every day in my on-line game.' (Caesar III[2]). And in so doing he is continually building a new narrative space that goes on evolving. Of course, we could dismiss this narrative construction as not really being a meaningful learning experience but a bit later he and his dad were engaged in a discussion about the meaningfulness of class distinctions - lower, middle, etc - and his dad stopped and asked him what class actually means to him. Colin responded: 'Well, it's how close you are to the Senate.' 'Where did you learn that, Colin?' he said, 'The closer you are physically to the Senate building, the plazas, the gardens, or the Triumphal Arch raises the desirability of the land, makes you upper class and produces plebians. It's based on simple rules of location to physical objects in the games (Caesar III)'. Then, he added, 'I know that in the real world the answer is more likely how close you are to the senators, themselves - that defines class. But it's kinda the same.'"

Simulations in Education---why aren't there poetry simulations? What would they look like? Is the idea absurd? Perhaps we could have a game LitCrit--the simulation . In it various critical approaches to a particular text in a collaborative effort to eke out meaning and connection. Mr. Mustard with the feminist rope in the vomitarium?

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print

Pretty good idea especially if you have to do some close textual analysis on the 'puter, e.g. finding all the references to ships in The Great Gatsby

Beloit Daily News - Thursday, August 24, 2000



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