the aggregate of our joy and suffering on a pale, blue dot

a repost from orbital teapot, because i agree: not enough views on youtube for this one:

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the audacity of… audacity

So Obama has captured the hearts and minds of so many over the last year, and now Jeremiah Wright is, for reasons that are totally unclear to me, attempting to undo all that. Obama tried to be gracious when this first came up, and in doing so he produced a truly wonderful speech. [...]

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More Reasons I’m In Grad School

From the “my research is dangerously close to web surfing” department, I bring you another titillating video that summarizes why I want to study the internet even better than the first (sorry, can’t seem to embed)! This one is Clay Shirky talking about his book Here Comes Everybody, which (if his talk is any [...]

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for fun

chew on this stuff while i continue to be too busy to do much online -

one of our friends made a DIE calculator. dig it.
since apparently there are a lot of people who love sociology and sci-fi at the same time, perhaps you’ll appreciate this video of some one doing the BSG theme song [...]

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tidbits

I join RFN in a call-out to Clinton: drop it, or, at the very least cut the shenanigans.  We get that you’ll do anything to win.  You don’t have to actually do anything.
Related: Reverend Wright, I would also like to ask you to pipe down.  Silence is golden.
On the other hand, kudos to the folks [...]

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The Long Tail

I love the internet.  I’ve been preaching to everyone who will listen about this long tail thing, which I do not have time to elaborate on at the moment.  However, I cannot let it pass that I have experienced a mounting surge in traffic here at the end of the semester on two particular posts:

The [...]

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time

My darling husband spent valuable time working on the following after being annoyed by someone repeatedly this semester. Apparently, this is how he vents. Note: he is actually a completely non-violent human being. If you know him personally you will undoubtedly nod your head sagely and say “Yep, that’s Michael alright. [...]

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why do you suppose

i get so bent out of shape when people pronounce it so-she-all-oh-gee instead of so-see-all-oh-gee? it seems like a silly preoccupation on my part, and i’m not even sure which is “right” (if there is such a thing).
in other news, i was motivated to give a kind, gentle version of this message to a [...]

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talk about nerdcore!

i give you: Baby Got Stats

[via WickedAnomie]

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tim robbins throws down and tells it like it is!

wow! cool. apparently tim robbins broke from script (and i mean that in a sociological sense, here) in his keynote address at a broadcasters’ meeting. really, this is a pretty fantastic skewering of the media. i’m impressed. i have to also point out that this speech is Obama-esque in both [...]

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