New. Paul. Beatty. Novel. OMG. Okay. It looks like I’ll need to wait until March to actually get my hands on The Sellout. But I’ll be counting down the days till then. I’ve already gushed briefly here about Beatty’s first novel, The White Boy Shuffle, and I could do the same about his third novel, […]
Monday not-quite-randomness: Labor Day edition [Rerun Sunday]
As mentioned in this space last week, the University is facing a strike by clerical, technical, and health-care workers that’s slated to start Wednesday. Last week’s bargaining[sic] session found the University coming back to the table without budging from the very same offer that workers had rejected when they declared their intent to strike. So […]
Video of the week
The US Supreme Court goes to the dogs … and I am eager to see just what sort of use the interwebs actually make of the free resources provided here.
3rd ACS Institute — 7-12 December 2015
The formal announcement of the keynote lineup for the next ACS Institute is below. But I want to add an extra plug for the event. To be sure, as ACS Chair, I’m a little biased. That said, I’ve been a part of the first two Institutes — in Ghent and in Klagenfurt — and they […]
Last week’s links
Call off the dogs! We’re back up to a half dozen this week. What goes around comes around? What goes around doesn’t quite come around What goes around could be made to come around What goes around makes pretty pictures Digital music distribution… …and other copyright conundrums
Lost in the flood [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 29 Aug 2007. As I type these words, the lead story on the CNN website is a classic example of “good” moral panic reporting about the “blistering pace” of murders in New Orleans. Nearly one per day this month […]
Video of the week
This week’s video is technically about YouTube trolls, rather than Gamergate. Since it’s from 2012, it precedes Gamergate by a while anyway. And yet it feels just as fresh and relevant (and, sadly, necessary) today as it did two years ago.
I am what I play…
As I mentioned last week, I had the honor of being a guest programmer for about 20 minutes worth of “FutureMixtape“. (Thanks again to Matt May and Jess Havens for the invitation and the long-distance hospitality). Technical difficulties got in the way of the plan for me to say a few brief words on air […]
Grades. What are they good for?
One of my all-time favorite stories to come out of my teaching dates back at least a decade, when I was still living in Tampa and working at USF. It was a lazy Saturday afternoon, and I was having a bite to eat at a restaurant a short walk from my house. It was sometime […]
Last week’s links
Once again, it’s a threesome rather than a sixsome. You feel cheated, I know. I’m sorry. Dance and education Social media and status Monkeys and QEII