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Wax Interlude: Warpaint
When I was younger, at least part of the thrill of new music was the way it seemed to open up aspects of the culture I lived in. There was something more to a great new track than just the song itself;...
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Read/Write, I/O, Tree/Tuber
Edit: So, this started out as a conversational post, but descended into academic-ese, ’cause I got excited, and that’s just what happens when I do. But! As it turns out, Joanne was thinking along some...
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Libya and the Synecdoches of State
As I watch updates from Libya pour with sickening frequency through my Twitter feed, I found myself wondering about how one might ‘help’. This is, I freely admit, futile and abstract and stupid. Still....
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Great Movies About the Internet?
If you had to make a list of “Things that got huge in the 21st century and were kinda’ a big deal”, you’d pretty much have to include the internets. Maybe even the webs, too. So why, then, do there...
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The Coke Studio
Update: An earlier draft of this posting incorrectly labelled the singer in the last two videos. His name is Sain Zahoor. Years ago on this blog (which, if you can believe it, has been around in one...
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[Guest Post] My Racist Advice Animals
The following post was written by Rea McNamara for the Ethnic Aisle. It’s pretty great – and some of those images will make you actually laugh out loud. Enjoy! This is too internet, isn’t it? Advice...
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And in the imagining is something, too…
Though I do try to keep the ‘links to writing I’ve done elsewhere’ to a minimum, I think (or hope, at least) this one may be up of interest to SiW readers. At the Standard, I wrote about the both our...
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Fixed Writing Machines, Bendable Bodies
A couple of weeks ago, I half-seriously started yammering on about ‘Project FNDL’ – that’s, er, ‘Project Fix Nav’s Disastrous Life’, for those not in the know. While it started as a bit of joke with...
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Dancing Behind the Tree of the Real
For all its cachet and global recognition now, I grew up hating Bollywood films. That’s not a terribly original thing for a ‘South Asian child of immigrants’ to say, but there you go. When I was...
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Idea #1: A Networked Moment of Silence
Download: 08%20Si.mp3 A dying man organizes via social media a listening session in which a small, vital group of people all across the world sit and listen to a song all at the same time. Nothing...
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Raymond Carver, We Hardly Knew Ye?
While it may be true that I’m neglecting this blog much like I will any future children, I just can’t resist linking to anything to do with Raymond Carver. And though I might love Carver’s writing –...
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Pressing Buttons to Make Meaning
No, not really. We’ll get to a much longer, rigorous post on the semiotics of video games. But let’s at least start here, with a quote from video game theorist Gonzalo Frasca: Traditional media are...
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Help! Apps and Software for Academics and Writers?
Look mom! I’m crowdsourcing! So, here’s the deal: I have to give a short presentation next week on web apps and software that will make life easier for people doing a dissertation in English. There are...
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The Academic Dilemma, Summarised in Cartoon Form
This is for my grad school nerds. [h/t: M]
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Fucking with Fucking
Of all the many contradictions of modern North America, few are confusing – and yet emblematic – as the double-standards that surround female sexuality. That we live in a world in which the image of...
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The Aspirational Index
When it comes to measuring the state and potential of cities, most of our metrics are, well, rather dry. Almost axiomatically, they are socio-economic in nature: GDP, income breakdown, employment, the...
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Everything is an Algorithm
I cannot even begin to express how much I like this clip from Blind Type – a touch-screen keyboard that lets you type without looking. How does it work? Well, I have precisely no idea. But if I had to...
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Totally Spaced, Man
Let’s be honest, folks: if you read this blog, the chances that you have sat (perhaps in your pajamas) and blown a couple of hours of some cold, rainy morning in front of your computer watching TV or...
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So, um… *sigh*…“ask me anything”
Why, dear SiW readers, I am now intrigued enough by Formspring to start one, I have no idea. But here we are. If you haven’t heard of it, Formspring is a service where you can ask questions of...
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KFC’s Double Down: The Ecstasy of Self-Destruction
Out of what I imagine is the same slightly morbid curiosity that others have experienced, earlier this week, I ate at least part of KFC’s Double Down. But while it might be, if nothing else,...
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