A small nuance to the below: Being open to the unexpected and different is good. When one is committed to a specific outcome, however… well, that’s not good. […]
rant
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Novel & Movie Titles as Academic Papers
While in class, @raanve remarked that academic papers can have some pretty lame titles. “Can you imagine if some of your favorite novels had titles like that?” she […]
politics / rant
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Authors, Pundits, and Hegel, oh my.
Social inequality – or at least the form it takes – is not inevitable. Both structural functionalism and conflict theory (which roughly map to the political right and […]
business / rant / religion
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Official Easter
Small note to diversity folks: 1. Putting “Happy Easter!” on the cafeteria menu, but not Passover, is showing official favoritism to a single religion. 2. When you put […]
rant / status update
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Taking "mutant" back
I missed boingboing. They didn’t go anywhere – the popular blog is still going strong. I did. I still got the RSS feed on my palm, and my […]
rant / second life
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Keeping adults in control in Second Life
After she explored Stonehenge in Second Life, my wife turned the corner and walked into a shop selling fully nude skins for female avatars. With rather large pictures […]