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balance, anyone?
Aug. 25th, 2009 09:58 amOne of the most famous classical musicians of our time, playing famous pieces on a gorgeous instrument, is essentially ignored. This article is long, but it's worth reading to the end if you're interested in beauty, decluttering, time a balanced life, etc.
Makes a guy think.
Now I just have to find/make/prioritize time to listen to (not likely watch much...) the clips. !
Buffy vs. Edward
Jun. 23rd, 2009 02:22 pmFrom BlipTv (http://blip.tv/file/2261825/)
"In this remixed narrative, Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer at Sunnydale High. It's an example of transformative storytelling serving as a pro-feminist visual critique of Edward's character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy's eyes some of the more patriarchal gender roles and sexist Hollywood tropes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed in hilarious ways. --- Team Buffy, you can now download an ipod/iphone version, 3gp cell phone version and a large take home version of the Buffy vs Edward remix at rebelliouspixels.com --- This transformative work constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. The remix is licensed under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license."
*Enders Game* gets started...
Jan. 5th, 2009 09:28 am(this is just a snippet of the article)
Urban Tool in Recruiting by the Army: An Arcade
PHILADELPHIA — Amid the last-minute shopping bustle, the voice in the Black Hawk helicopter simulator shouted with an urgency that exceeded even the holiday mall frenzy.
About 35 visitors have enlisted.
Triggers squeezed. Pixels exploded. Shopping waited.
At the Franklin Mills mall here, past the Gap Outlet and the China Buddha Express, is a $13 million video arcade that the Army hopes will become a model for recruitment in urban areas, where the armed services typically have a hard time attracting recruits.
The Army Experience Center is a fitting counterpart to the retail experience: 14,500 square feet of mostly shoot-’em-up video games and three full-scale simulators, including an AH-64 Apache Longbow helicopter, an armed Humvee and a Black Hawk copter with M4 carbine assault rifles. For those who want to take the experience deeper, the center has 22 recruiters. Or for more immediate full-contact mayhem, there are the outlet stores.
(.... and lots more from there)
sex ed gets a lift in CA
May. 24th, 2007 11:33 amThe SJ Merc reports that a whopping 89% of parents support comprehensive sex ed, across political/religious boundaries. It also talks about how scientific studies report how much more effective comprehensive education is compared to federally-mandated abstinence/sex-in-marriage education.
I am struck by how, nonetheless, the article spends at least three paragraphs (at least they're far down in the article) reporting on uber-religion-conservative views, in little interviews. I grok showing both sides of a story. I also note that the calm reporting of science isn't nearly as exciting a read as a little frothing at the mouth. Yet frothing at the mouth on the science side would look really silly (of course, it also looks silly on the religious side).
Anyhow, I wonder if these little interviews don't sorta fan the flames of fervor, just by paying paragraphs of attention to them. That might be in service of getting people to read the paper, but not to the news itself. Interesting to consider.
