from Phantomcity: our results:You are Jean-Luc Picard Jean-Luc Picard 75% Geordi LaForge 65% Spock 57% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 55% Worf 55% Chekov 50% Mr. Scott 45% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 45% Data 44% Will Riker 40% Uhura 35% Beverly Crusher 35% Deanna Troi 35% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% Mr. Sulu 30% A lover of […]

Four Things: A Lists of Four meme that’s going around the Internets. I haven’t been tagged by anyone to do it, but it looked interesting: Four jobs I’ve had in my life: Instructor of Political Science, Director of VTOnline Director of CDDC Teaching Assistant Student Building Manager at the Gym Golf Caddy Four movies I […]

lala-land is a Theory of Justice?: You’re Brave New World! by Aldous Huxley With an uncanny ability for predicting the future, you are a true psychic. You can see how the world will change and illuminate the fears of future generations. In the world to come, you see the influence of the media, genetic science, […]

Metafilter | Community Weblog: “Drove my Chevy to the levee…”? That’s a lawsuit. “Pass the Courvoisier”? Yup. Lawsuit too. Artwork using Barbie Dolls? Lawsuit again… It’s all part of the Trademark Dilution Revision Act, which would eliminate the non-commercial “fair use” protections of trademarks in art, literature, and speech– To amend the Trademark Act of […]

*** EXTENDED DEADLINE *** By popular demand, we have extended the deadline for paper abstracts to 21 February – for full details, see below. —— Internet Research 7.0, Brisbane 28-30 September 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia 28-30 September 2006 Pre-Conference […]

Phantomcity is Spider-Man?: Your results:You are Iron Man Iron Man 80% Superman 65% Spider-Man 55% Supergirl 55% Hulk 55% Batman 55% Catwoman 50% Wonder Woman 50% Green Lantern 35% The Flash 30% Robin 18% Inventor. Businessman. Genius. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Pedestrians, bikers being run down in college towns: —— Personally, I think this sort of thing has gone on for too long without any real attempt at resolution. we’ve heard about future changes, but what are they doing to prevent this from happening tomorrow?

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Dispatches From Adjunct Faculty at a Large State University: —— This is funny.

Dying to Avoid Rape: Dying to Avoid RapeFemale soldiers in Iraq are having to make an impossible choice: Risk being raped , or risk dying of dehydration. Many of them have ended up dead. In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military […]