Paper Submission
Jeff and or Marty Where do you want the final paper submitted? There isn’t an assignment slot that I saw on oncourse. Thanks!
*sigh
RIAA Shenanigans
Another brick in the “we sue you long time” file sharing wall…
Oops…
So, the fun thing about technology and the availability to the average person is their ability to create “stuff.” We talked in class about viral videos and game videos and anything else you can do with youtube and other online places that create networks. So my question is, wtf is Britney Spears still making money…
Creating the world in…
I really thought the discussion in class today about people creating based on preexisting items instead of creating a brand new object was interesting. And if you stop and think about it…. what’s happened in the last 10 years or even the last 20 thats really been “new?” Google, which according to Digg is in…
Who doesn’t have a life?
THIS GUY. And probably some of you too. I came across the following video, http://www.break.com/index/we-didnt-start-the-viral.html on Digg today. I’m kind of a Billy Joel fan so I decided to watch it. How many of those videos do you guys recognize? I knew a saddeningly high %. Anyway I posted that mainly because I thought a…
Prewriting
I spent some time on my flight reading through a couple of articles about my topic. I really enjoyed the process, although I’m also eager for feedback because I’m not entirely sure I did it correctly. I followed the outline that Marty did in class and I made some lists of ideas from the two…
Guns
I didn’t want to make the comment in class, plus the video is way funnier. Eddie Izzard who you might know from Ocean’s 12 and 13 and the Riches, is also a comedian and has a great stand up routine (Dress to Kill) from a few years ago. Here are his thoughts on guns! (Guns…
CHI Questions
I know some of the people (and by some I mean the VAST majority) in the class are second years and therefore have had some access to CHI in the past. I had dinner at Scotties with a few people last night and we talked a bit about what all went on last year and…