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remember remember the fifth of September?

Can anyone identify this monument? I wonder why not. (If you can, you are admirable, and somehow well taught in this regard. I couldn’t have identified it.) For a bit of a lesson (I read it this morning, but I know I read it in Zinn at one point as well), follow follow follow follow. [...]
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In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man ain’t Bing

(1st post from within context of 4020 w/ Dr. Kinzer.)The lens through which you look at this ‘content’ is an electric, networked, programmed lens (even if you printed it). These natures affect the content. The electric nature does not seem to do nearly so much as the networked and programmed natures, although the programmed/networked natures [...]
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Reasonable Persuasion: teachers, poets, liars, and language

The following is an essay written for a class at Teachers College, with Robbie McClintock. The online residence of the class is here. It’s a great reading list. If you’d like to read this paper as it’s ‘meant’ to be read, please download the pdf. If you’d prefer to just read it as HTML, well [...]
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SEO, advertising, language, articles

I have both an academic interest in SEO, and a desire to engage in the practice. I want to understand the present and future of how people make decisions, and how they become who they become. This has always had to do with public/cultural narrative, and clearly in the past several hundred years, especially the [...]
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music mix-indices

A mix for my math students, and for anybody else. All songs came from CD’s that I purchased full price, in person, from a shiny-toothed employee of a large record store. I even keep the cellophane wrapping and the stupid protective tape. here’s a picture of one of the cds for proof. mix at mirror [...]
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final post #4010 #911 #hamlet #grief #antigone #enlightenment

The following was written by Thomas de Constantius, who is perhaps the last man in the world to sound the alarm. It is merely a dance attempt, and a quick one at that. This little girl was up on the fire escape somewhere around 10th street I think on Broadway. She had a conch shell, [...]
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Hitler and the Census

I posted a question for my 4010 class (Communications) here. It’s about Barthes’ Mythologies.
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groundhog gyges

A Ramis/Murray take on the Ring of Gyges: groundhog-gyges.avi Currently reading the Republic again. In Groundhog Day, Phil’s Ring is one of daily reincarnation. However, this wouldn’t be a Gyges Ring if he had to drink from Lethe each time. In this way he is like Er. LUCKILY, he keeps his memories between cycles, and [...]
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The 500 hats of BarthambleW Strugglins

While walking, I am arrested by a van’s license plate. I am writing down the number. But the number is vain. It is “NOW SOLD”. At first I think it is from an artist, an adman in a deep sense. Not a madman. But then the frame- “Consult a Realtor”. The meaning has changed. As [...]
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h.o.p.e. conference #hacking #future #freedom

Hackers on Planet Earth is happening in NYC in July. This is through 2600, the hacker quarterly published by Emmanuel Goldstein since the (early 90s?). If I am in town, I definitely want to go. Future talk, freedom talk, computer talk. main theme of the conference is ‘visions of the future from the past’. sentences [...]
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