Boing Boing: Comic advises women to call anti-abortion Senator to make their choices
Boing Boing: Comic advises women to call anti-abortion Senator to make their choices: Comic advises women to call anti-abortion Senator to make their choices The Minimum Security webcomic sends up South Dakota Senator Bill Napoli, who helped push through the state ban on abortion. It features a woman unable to choose what sort of salad […]
Read MoreThe Vinegar Institute – Uses & Tips
The Vinegar Institute – Uses & Tips: Berry ink ingredients: ½ C. Ripe berries (blueberries, cherries, blackberries, strawberries, elderberries, raspberries, etc.) ½ Tsp. Vinegar ½ Tsp. Salt Fill a strainer with the berries and hold it over a bowl. Using the rounded back of a wooden spoon, crush the berries against the strainer so that […]
Read More7.0 papers are accepted and look great!
Presenters, Abstracts, and Papers: Internet Research 7.0: Internet ConvergencesPresented by Association of Internet Researchers
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http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ please distribute this url widely, we’d love to have more submissions to send to review.
Read MoreMore dialogue with TMTTLT: Push back…
More dialogue with TMTTLT: Push back…: We seem to be more in agreement than not.I’ll resist the slide from “computing devices” to “technology,” but probably nothing turns on that anyway. The laptops are valuable at least as much for their interactive, networking potential as for their other computing possibilities, maybe more. Plenty of people in […]
Read MoreAxess, a magazine for the liberal arts and social sciences
Axess, a magazine for the liberal arts and social sciences: REGULATED SEXUALITY | Some Muslim women feel that the veil provides dignity and protection, but I found it controlling my inner life, even after I stopped wearing one. —— This is an interesting article that posits some of the mental effects of veiling women.
Read Morewhen one realizes the situationist word derive is the same as drift… kristeva makes more sense…
Read MorePush back on my take: Gates…
Push back on my take: Gates…: I got the support issues the first time. Yes. But it#039s not as though those are issues for and only for the $100-laptop crowd. Those are issues for bringing most of the world into network society — or allowing for the creation of network societies for most of the […]
Read MoreINTERNATIONAL LOW-RESIDENCY MFA PROGRAM INVITES APPLICATIONS Transart Institute invites applications to its interdisciplinary MFA in New Media program. Students create their own course of study working on art and research projects off-site with the support of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors. The independent study is complemented by three intensive summer residencies where lectures, critiques, seminars, […]
Read MoreGates Dismissive of $100 Laptop [1] ….
Gates Dismissive of $100 Laptop [1] ….: My take is that it may be both a publicity stunt and also a good project. Because, of course, the support issues wouldn’t go away if every child were given a $1000 laptop, would they? Nor would anyone sit there cranking the $1000 laptop; they’d stare at it […]
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