Category — Cool Stuff

We are pleased to announce that the CDDC is providing web hosting and maintenance for Fifth-Estate-Online. This “International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism” publishes peer-reviewed academic articles, as well as commentaries, book reviews, and multimedia galleries. Since its launch in 2005, the journal and its contributors have been examining the role and power of mass media, both in historical and contemporary terms. Fifth-Estate-Online is a timely and welcome addition to our Center’s holdings, and we invite everyone to visit – and perhaps even contribute to – this fine online journal. [From center for digital discourse and culture]

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great news, congratulations brent.

Yet another blog meme, courtesy of folks at Chronicles of Dissent (by way of Threat Level). This time I’m supposed to grab the nearest book, open to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence and type up the 3 following sentences. Not sure why, or if someone is going to be patching all these together into some kind of mash-up, but I’ll play along… [From 123 Meme: michaelzimmer.org]

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“And I constructed mesoscopic analyses, chronological accounts, through a qualitative and simple quantitative examination of the twelve participants’ session in terms of their local activity systems and the genres they used. I describe each of the three analyses in more detail below.” In Tracing Genres by Clay Spinuzzi. I just picked this book up form a used bookstore online.

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and I’m just reading it now, but… overall it is written from a rhetoric understanding of genre more than an organizational analysis of genre, it seems to me. That’s interesting though and it makes some interesting corollary points.

[From The N: Games & Quizzes: Quizzes: What Time of Day Are You?: Results]

The storyteller is deep inside every one of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is ravaged by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise. But the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us -for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

[From Doris Lessing - Nobel Lecture]

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i hold this to be true too, we are all storytellers.

Jeremy Hunsinger Q5570

[From Jeremy Hunsinger (60612) - QDOS search results]

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lots of people are more famous than me….

A. A Thinking WorldTM task is a challenge that will take place in a 3D world. For example you may be answering multiple choice questions about how blood gets around the body, whilst exploring a 3D set of lungs. Or you may be bringing different characters information about bullying in a 3D classroom.

[From Serious Educational Games Online | Game Based Learning | Games]

more on thinking worlds

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seems like it would be interesting, but it is pc only. now i have my old linux box…

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sometimes i get the feeling that most people in most parts of life are doing this.

What Everyone Should Know About Their Own Minds: 6 Introspective Insights From Psychology

[From PsyBlog: What Everyone Should Know About Their Own Minds: 6 Introspective Insights From Psychology]

some great insights here.

The reading cure

The idea that literature can make us emotionally and physically stronger goes back to Plato.

[From Books | The reading cure]

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This is actually one of my major insights, luckily i share it with many people. It is pretty simple. Great fiction, great books provide models for being, ways of coping, ways of understanding. They help you understand that yes, you are not the great lonely person confronting your challenges new, but that yes, this problem of yours is more or less the same as everyone else’s problems. Literature opens doors for realizing and empathizing.

Ten Japanese were sickened, including a child who fell into a coma, after eating Chinese-made dumplings contaminated with insecticide, police and health officials

[From Chinese dumplings sicken 10 Japanese - Yahoo! News]

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where do they such a huge supply of police and health officials….