A while back I posted a link to an online flash game called the De-Animator. A fun, simple game wherein you kill zombies. Pretty straightforward, and a lot of kicks for a Night of the Living Dead fan like me (which, by the way, is freely available as a high res movie here [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Deanimator Re-visited, or the Post that just keeps on giving!
Published by May 30th, 2007 in video games. 20 CommentsFrom what I understand, this is Canada’s latest smoking campaign. Nice to see our neighbors to the North have finally caught on.
Re-blogged from Coeruleus’s post here.
Keira, when in NYC you must “Shoot the Freak”!
Published by May 26th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 20 CommentsThis one is for you, Keira McPhee!
Image courtesy of Default Punk
OK, Keira is going to NYC in the next few days and she sent a request for recommendations of places to go, eat, see, etc. via twitter. Man, what a fun request! I started putting together a google My Maps page of some of [...]
WPMU permissions hack for new users
Published by May 25th, 2007 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 0 CommentsIf you are using or administrating WordPress Multi-User you may have come across the following error message for new users creating just a login name (not getting blog):
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
This problem can get pretty frustrating if you are using a single blog on WPMU that has several [...]
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: Discipline and Punish
Published by May 24th, 2007 in WordPress. 10 CommentsOK, so last night’s class was so inspiring (a.k.a. sick) that I thought I would blog about it right quick. I have been leaving traces of some of the resources I have been finding on YouTube, and alluding to some ideas about categories, tagging, and WordPress -but last night demonstrated a couple of amazing [...]
Did you know this amazing talk by Stuart Hall is freely available on YouTube? My class is quickly changing before my eyes thanks to this amazing resource. Below is a lecture by Hall on media and representation -ever more relevant in this day and age -but in continual need of being re-articulated and re-formulated [...]
What do you think? Does this sound like a great new b-movie coming to a theater near you? Read this crazy bit about the Pentagon, MySpace, and conservative talk show hosts via BoingBoing here. Man, the 50s cold war tactics of fear, terror and misinformation are all too close to us these days.
Pretty remarkable explanation of copyright laws using bits and pieces of a wide range of Disney animated cartoons. A lot of fun! Eric Fadden, a professor at Bucknell University, is responsible for this Fair(y) Use Tale.
Well, I have been furiously putting together my syllabus for the class on Early American Crime Narratives I’ll be teaching this first Summer session, which starts tomorrow! The class will be tracing a series of narratives from the colonial period through the U.S. revolution. More specifically, we will be examining the reformulation of crime and [...]
The recent discussion and commodification of “Reverend Jim” at Faculty Academy 2007 might be better understood with a bit of context. I have to admit that I’m a bit scared that without a stable referent -or at the very least some clarification- this little joke may be misinterpreted. The reverend Jim is not [...]
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