Month: December 2008
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Funny Headlines
Just had yet another laugh out loud moment reading Criggo and realized I’ve never posted about it. Criggo is basically Jay Leno’s Headlines routine from Monday nights as a blog, with the greater, um, latitude that blogging allows over late night tv. One recent favorite: Check them out at http://criggo.wordpress.com/
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Yes We Can Ringtone
OK, so the election’s over and all, but I just got a new iPhone and wanted to play with ringtones. So I took Tana Sokolow’s remix — which put Obama’s speech over Lee Dorsey’s early seventies performance of Allen Toussaint’s Yes We Can — and created a ringtone. This’ll get annoying shortly, I’m sure, but…
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A Holiday Tune for the Rest of Us
(From The Satirical Political Report via boing boing) A version of Adam Sandler’s Hannukah song reworked with new lyrics by Don Davis, as performed by Louie Aronowitz: Put away your Fathiesm, its time to celebrate atheism: Atheism is, the festival of Enlightenment, Unlike many religions, it doesn’t depend on crazy enfrightenment Very Sandler-esque.
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Dissertation Wordle
Just for fun, here’s a wordle of my dissertation, on (nearly) the 10th anniversary of finishing it: Generated by Wordle. Technically not quite based on the final version, since I can’t find the final version. I have the PDF from University Microfilms, but the only editable version I have is ~4 months behind that final…
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Some Quotations from David Brin’s Transparent Society
Just finished reading The Transparent Society, David Brin’s 1998 rumination on the question of “Will Technology Force Us to Chose Between Privacy and Freedom.” It’s a really thoughtful book about an alternative approach to the battle over privacy based on two-way transparency, or more accurately accountability. Along the way I marked a few passages in…