The Boston in Me

The horrible events at this year’s Boston Marathon have put me in a melancholy mood, and I turned to MetaFilter to make better sense of the senseless tragedy. After reading the thousand-or-so comments that came before, I said (in...

Posted by mistersquid on April 15, 2013 10:05 PM

Notes About Networks

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...

Posted by mistersquid on September 29, 2010 9:09 AM

Conservative New York Times Columnist David Brooks Nails What’s Wrong With Slightly Misinterprets James Cameron’s Avatar

New York Times Columnist David Brooks Nails What’s Wrong With Slightly Misinterprets James Cameron’s Avatar ENTRYURL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/08brooks.html viaName: Pam viaURL: http://www.facebook.com/pamela.snyder TIME: 09:56:26 //--> Neytiri and Jake Sully (source) On Saturday night (9 January 2010), I posted and retracted a...

Posted by mistersquid on January 11, 2010 7:01 AM

Barack Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance...

Posted by mistersquid on October 9, 2009 7:41 AM

Taking It Lying Down: A Short Addendum to The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception written for the Age of Ubiquitous Television

On Friday, 10 July, Pam and I were in Manhattan, KS, which with bathroom breaks and fuelings is about ninety minutes outside Topeka. Two largish little league baseball teams were also staying where we were lodging, and the breakfast...

Posted by mistersquid on July 18, 2009 8:33 AM

Editorial Board of Ohio University's The Post Thinks Racism Is Funny

Photo of Chris Yonker(Image source) On 7 September 2007, The Post, a student newspaper funded by Ohio University, published an editorial by Chris Yonker titled "Broad Stripes and Bright Stars" which features, among other things, a photograph of Yonker striking...

Posted by mistersquid on September 18, 2007 8:44 AM

Tommy Sweatshop

At my undergraduate alma mater, USC, the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE) staged a knit-in on the steps of the Pertusati University Bookstore. Lori White, associate vice president for Student Affairs, asked the students to relocate to Hahn plaza...

Posted by mistersquid on February 9, 2007 7:57 AM

Still point, or the beauty of symbolic links1

Since 3:20 am on Tuesday, 6 June, my servers allowed three pieces of email to be queued for delivery. Thanks to procmail, two of those pieces of junk email never made it past /dev/null. The third piece of junk...

Posted by mistersquid on June 8, 2006 10:42 PM

Go Cavaliers!!!

My girlfriend earned her Bachelor’s of Science On Sunday, 16 May 2004. (Don't forget to click the pic) I’m so proud of her. As you can tell if you follow the link above, Mandy is now in Belau (the largest...

Posted by mistersquid on May 16, 2004 12:58 AM

rictus

Sometimes a cigar . . . Discredited with good reason during the rise of feminism, Freudian psychoanalytic theory and psychological models nonetheless do have their uses and insights, whatever apologies must be given and counterbalancing achieved before citing work...

Posted by mistersquid on August 31, 2003 12:26 AM