While I was in Manchester, I was surprised at how stunted and illegible the local students’ mobile phone text messages usually were. Every text message is limited to 160 characters or spaces, and if you exceed that, the phone company will charge you for two messages. Since the students are really cheap (except for when [...]
I’m pretty sure that I’ve plugged the Slow Wave web comic before, with its concept of making comic strips of dreams sent in by the readers. But even so, I found this recent strip so brilliant that it’s worth plugging the whole thing again.
Today, I happened on a site which has collection of remixes of Lawrence Lessig’s book, Free Culture. “Remix?” you say – well, yes. Lessig, a law professor, is one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Creative Commons licenses. These are simple, easy-to-use licenses that allow people to make their works accessible and [...]
My friend and one time anthropology compadre, Tore, is finally getting his blogging act together, and have started a regular output of blogging. His definion of blog writing is “a narcissistic ride towards insanity where people who have nothing to say still torment their readers with their platitudes and empty banalities.” If I have translated [...]
John, an American anthropology student currently on exchange here in Copenhagen showed me a site selling demotivational posters today. Almost all of them are recommended for disaffected college students, so there might be something there to like. Of course, this is a spoof on proper motivational posters which some business managers actually believe will work. [...]
This week, I’ve had time – or, rather, taken time – to go to the cinema twice. On Sunday, I went to see the new Danish documentary, Guerilla Girl. Two young Danish filmmakers were allowed access to one of the secret training camps of the Colombian Marxist Guerilla known as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces [...]