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John McCain’s a broken down crane
Published by October 14th, 2008 in edupunk and politics. 2 CommentsJefferson’s Permanent Revolution
Published by October 10th, 2008 in philosophy, politics and television. 1 CommentI have been on a Thomas Jefferson kick lately. Given this, I was really excited to read Peter Rock’s recent post “Jefferson, ideas, property, and the constitution”, which discusses the fallacious logic that ideas can be treated as property.
So, this got me thinking about Jefferson’s idea of permanent revolution, or that “every generation needs [...]
P4P: Universities as techno-corporate thinktanks?
Published by August 25th, 2008 in bitTorrent, edupunk, piracy and politics. 1 CommentI’m a fan of TorrentFreak, it’s one of those rare blogs that streams interesting news on a very specific subject and openly acknowledges its biases while providing the reader with a ton of information to fend for themselves. In fact, I have come to think of TorrentFreak as one of the outposts in a war [...]
2008 is going to be the end of an even greater error!
The Painful Politics of YouTube
Published by November 26th, 2007 in YouTube, gun control and politics. 3 CommentsNow, I understand Mike Huckabee is a conservative nut case and may possibly be the worst Republican candidate of an extremely bad pool. Nonetheless, his campaign strategy for YouTube show an unbelievable amount of pop culture savvy by playing on the general fascination with all things Chuck Norris (see the Chuck Norris Facts article [...]
James Farmer and the Great Debaters
Published by October 11th, 2007 in James Farmer, civil rights, politics and video. 5 CommentsJames L. Farmer, Jr. was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. He was a renowned orator, one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), organized the first sit-ins, and was a key figure on the Freedom Rides during the 1960s, a phrase he actually [...]
Wal-Mart, Iraq, and an Inexcusable Silence
Published by October 10th, 2007 in art, museums and politics. 0 CommentsLee Rosenbaum’s article in today’s Wall Street Journal adds another layer to the post I wrote about Randolph College selling off its art collection (inspired by Rosenbaum’s original post here). According to the article, one of the major forces behind struggling institutions auctioning off prized artwork could have something to do with the current market [...]
The blog Torrent Freak is a relatively recent favorite of mine. I have read it sporadically for a while, but it seems like things have been heating up as of late in bitTorrent land as the MPAA and other interest groups start to ratchet up their war against bitTorrent (even the porn industry has [...]
Online petition in VA to repeal unjust traffic fines
Published by July 15th, 2007 in politics. 7 CommentsUpdate: To view a pdf version of the House Bill 3202 under question click here. Thanks Martha!
A little online democracy at work right here in Virginia. Bryan Ault started an online petition to repeal the enormous traffic fines imposed in House Bill 3202, also know as the “civil remedial fees” (how’s that [...]
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