Prove the Mayans Right…
Clay Bennett cartoons Waking Up in Middle Time: The Last Years On The Road To 2012 by Jose Arguelles Ph.D.
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Scholars Test Web Alternative
to Peer Review by Patricia Cohen “For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century. Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the [...]
John Mellencamp Likens Internet
To A-Bomb Catharine Smith, HuffingtonPost.com “Outspoken musician John Mellencamp, a fierce critic of the music industry, condemned the Internet at the Grammy Museum on Tuesday, saying, “I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. [...] It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business.”… Mellencamp went [...]
The Web Is Dead.
Long Live the Internet By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, Wired.com “Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And [...]
Censure & Wikipedia: The second occurence
On 13 July 2010 I decided to try and link my essays to Wikipedia again on the subjects listed below using a different user name. Links to Batman, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Superman were avoided because these Wikipedia entries were what appeared to be under the control of the media and movie industries and the [...]
On Google’s Facts about Net Neutrality
Policy Proposal We will limit our remarks on some basic questions and the language used or omitted in the proposal.* Google states that Net Neutrality is a “very contentious issue”. However, the contention did not appear until Google teamed up with Verizon. Why the change now? But given political realities, this particular issue has been [...]
“Land of Giants”
Architecture Buzz!! Choi+Shine Architects has sent us “Land of Giants” the honorable mention award from Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition as well as Award Winner of 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture. The project was initially submitted for a 2008 competition held by the Icelandic power transmission company, Landsnet, in conjunction with [...]
Censure & Wikipedia: “Blocked Indefinitely”
This is the third posting on the subject. We would like to share with our readers the reason(s) given for the blocking of links we added on Wikipedia on the subjects outlined below. These blocks were executed by an anonymous and ominous editor named Kurt Shaped Box. Links to: The Book of Job, Iron Man, [...]
Amadou & Mariam
Feat -M- Masiteladi, YouTube.com From “Welcome to Mali” Amadou & Mariam, myspace Got this CD in January 2010, and is still a favorite…
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