Author Archives: Reverend

TEOTWAWKI

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Reverend

Having taught online for years and being one of those overproduced PhDs who was forced to work in the for-profit sector to eat, I think we are at Chomsky’s stage 6. I developed a course for Embanet and it was … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: The 400 Blows

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Reverend

Just watched François Truffaut’s 1959 masterpiece The 400 Blows again tonight because I needed to be transported back to something else, something other, and few, if any, films can do it like this one. This may be one of the … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Bava’s Twitch of the Death Nerve

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Reverend

I recently saw the above movie poster for Mario Bava’s Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971), and I just love the whole sense of occasion created by the hysteria: “The first motion picture to require a face-to-face warning!” The exaggeration … Continue reading →

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umw.edu and WP 3.0: some initial architectural thoughts

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Reverend

While nothing is in stone yet, it looks pretty certain UMW will be moving its entire website to WordPress over the next year. This is really exciting for me, and it goes a long way to illustrate the impact UMW … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Domain Mapping

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Reverend

Image credit: This cheesy t-shirt over at neatoshop that I love. My love affair with domain mapping has been well documented on this blog, and last week, before I went on vacation, UMW quietly took a big leap forward in … Continue reading →

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“Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there”

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Reverend

My recent feature post on UMW Blogs. What is quickly apparent is that what’s happening on UMW Blogs is continuing to cross pollinate in the community. And the quote from Thomas Fuller (which I have made the title of this … Continue reading →

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Into the mud, Scum Web! Or, picking through the ruins that was WPMu

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Reverend

Image credit: Thomas Hawk’s No Dark Sarcasm in the classroom I’m not sure when I got derailed from the Summer of Love, it was all going so well. And then the bastards, scum bags, and profit-driven web denizens seemed to … Continue reading →

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“It’s every bastard for himself, the last century hasn’t ended yet”

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Reverend

everything is a commercial. we advertise our memories we leave our shit on silver platters and THEN we buy whatever’s left (empty life? ? fine?) These days I can’t help but turn on Unwound’s magnum opus Leaves Turn Inside You … Continue reading →

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Psychology, Brain Trauma, and Phineas Gage

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Reverend

Professor Mindy Erchull’s Psychology 100 course is covering everything from brain trauma to memory to Freud in their blog posts. And the range of reflections and incorporation of the ubiquity of psychology in popular culture makes for a fascinating and … Continue reading →

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Crises of Capital Animated

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Reverend

This is a remarkable talk, and once again David Harvey nails it. What’s more, the RSA animation crew make the talk that much more powerful and entertaining—there’s really a there there with this kind of visualization. Hat tip to both … Continue reading →

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