The Disclaimer comes first
The following post is a ton of stuff I have collected over the last year or two on BitTorrent and its implications for educational institutions. This will all be fodder for an article in the EDUCAUSE Quarterly I have been promising for months, and I found the only way to [...]
Archive for June, 2008
BitTorrent: An Educational Autopsy of the Hydra
Published by June 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 12 CommentsThe Many-Headed Hydra, or a Useful Figure for the Quotidian Revolution
Published by June 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 9 CommentsJon Beasley-Murray recently posted about the political term multitude, the concept itself is rather complex and can be traced through the political texts and philosophical thought of Machiavelli and Spinoza, and more recently the concept has been employed by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their book Empire. After a little digging I realized Jon [...]
Internet Archive howto for digitizing LPs
Published by June 26th, 2008 in Internet Archive. 4 Comments photo credit: amy_b
I thought this was pretty cool, the Internet Archive blog has a recent post on the process they follow to digitize vinyl. And they share this information all in the name of preserving and distributing ephemeral culture. Nothing like an organization that preserves some of the coolest stuff on the net [...]
I was doing a little YouTube nostalgia surfing with the bambini, and after our fair share of old cartoons I decided to dredge for early 80s music videos. After enjoying the brilliance of “I Ran” by Flock of Seagulls I searched for “Saftey Dance” by Men Without Hats. And after watching that video, [...]
Reading Capital, Part 1
Published by June 24th, 2008 in Reading Capital and Uncategorized. 5 CommentsThe D.I.Y. Lego Karl Marx (Image courtesy of Dunechaser)
So while I am waiting for my very own copy of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 to arrive in the mail, I figured I ‘d get to work (in the spirit of Frank Sobotka) on some ideas I have been playing around with for a while now. [...]
To quote the inimitable Luke Waltzer, Frank “It ain’t about me!” Sobotka is “one of the great characters in TV history.” I have to wholeheartedly agree, the stevedore who “knew he was wrong, but believed for the right reasons,” was an amazing presence on television—a working class guy whose not a ridiculous stooge like The [...]
Web Spaces of Hope: David Harvey shares his Capital
Published by June 20th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 7 CommentsIf you follow this blog with any regularity then a) you’re a masochist and b) you know every so often I start talking about the City University of New York. I can’t help it, I was a wayward English Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate School, and before I got sucked into the vortex of [...]
Fifteen seconds into this clip comes one of my favorite lines from one of the best films of the last century, Night of the Hunter (1955). The other eight and half minutes is just a bonus
BEN HARPER: “What religion you profess, preacher?”
HARRY POWELL: “The religion the Almighty and me worked out betwixt us.” [...]
One from the archives for all you fathers out there today. A scene taken from the 1986 classic At Close Range, starring the great Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, and the sorely missed Chris Penn (his death in 2006 hit me kind of hard ’cause I always imagined my older brother was like Sean Penn, and [...]
I had the great pleasure of re-watching one of my favorite films of all time recently with Shannon during our lunch hour. We saw the The Ultimate Director’s Cut version of The Warriors (1979) released in 2005, which I had not yet seen —and I must say the digital transfer of the film is [...]
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