Facebook gets a lot of abuse. And it’s earned most of it. They routinely make privacy an opt-in feature, and then compound that problem by making it hard for people to find the right settings to change if they do, in fact, want to opt in. They mine our friends’ profiles for pix and prose […]
More found haiku (more grad seminar reading) [Rerun Sunday]
must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post above originally appeared on 26 January 2012.
Found haiku of the day (grad seminar reading edition) [Rerun Sunday]
to uphold basic human justice you must do so for everyone – Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual, p. 93 [And I know I’m sorta cheatin’ the syllable count in the last line a bit, but no one really enunciates that second E in “everyone,” do they?] You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun […]
Lies we tell our students [Rerun Sunday]
It’s the start of another semester, so I thought it would be a good time to share what has become a standard part of my Day One spiel for my undergrads. I’ve taken to giving some version of this, no matter what the course actually is, partially because Day One is a good time for […]