February 2012
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“The moe character is..." →
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sunwheel:
“The moe character is a product of the breakdown of the grand narrative and rise of simulacra (Azuma 2009), and its form is one of unbounded virtual possibility. Concretely, a moe character is what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari describe as a ‘body without organs,’ or the ‘virtual’ dimension of the body that is a collection of potential traits, connections and affects...
“Readability” is freedom from the actual sensation... →
Here’s the quoted article, behind a New Yorker paywall, if you are curious. I am linking mostly for that one line!
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Sauer: For the last decade we've been watching each one of the No. 1 films at the box office each weekend and tracking all of the identifiable brands and product placements in each one of those films and then adding to a searchable database by brand, film, year, and everything.
Ryssdal: Do you actually have to like go to the movie theater and sit there with a pad and a pencil?
Sauer: Absolutely. It's sometimes awkward because people wonder what you're writing about and you're by yourself. This last week I went and saw "The Vow" by myself with a notebook. That's kind of creepy.
Ryssdal: It's a fun date, man. All right, so who are the winners? Roll it out for us.
Sauer: The No. 1 product that appeared in more of the U.S. top films last year than any other was Apple.
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Madonna's Superbowl Halftime Show
It’s basically this:
January 2012
9 posts
The Future of (Free Online) Education →
One day I am going to finish watching the Loups-Garous anime. (Which is a dystopian take on this sort of thing.)
Update on the Eurodebt Crisis →
Which by the way we still haven’t talked about for even a second in my course! I think the most recent “contemporary issue” brought up in the class of the same name was something specific to the field from about 10 years ago.
Is this for real? Also,
Interviewer: What American artist would you like to collaborate with?
Tablo: I would like to collaborate with the youngest of the Jonas Brothers. Not on music. I would like to make a humongous pizza with him. Like, take a lot of dough, and shape that into the biggest pizza you’ve ever seen.
Interviewer: Why is that?
Tablo: I don’t know, he just looks like a guy that would be really good at making pizza.
Interviewer: Pet peeves?
Tablo: My pet peeve is that I’m not a member of the Jonas Brothers. I could pretend to be their brother, but people could tell.
Interviewer: They have purity rings, they can’t have sex until they're married. You didn’t know, now you don’t want to be a Jonas Brother.
Tablo: Well, that purity ring is fine, but that would get in the way of making the pizza. While we’re making the pizza just take it off for a second.
Interviewer: He can’t!
Tablo: We’re making a pizza, it’s not like we’re gonna make love.
Update on US Economic Recovery →
Read the comments too.
December 2011
7 posts
Flooby is a derp: From a friend of mine: Words... →
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fuckyeahforeignlanguagemajor:
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions
Shlimazl: (Yiddish) a person...
Settled, I WILL see this movie in Scotland
Interviewer: Tell us about your relationship with Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law: Oh, I love him.
Interviewer: You have a bit of a bromance going on there.
Jude Law: What is this new term everybody's using? That's a horrible term. What about just a 'romance'?
Interviewer: No, that's not the same, 'cos then you'd have to star in a romantic comedy together or something.
Jude Law: We just have! Have you not seen it?
“[TW: CISSEXISM & MISGENDERING] Private Manning has endured horrendous...”
– Emily Manuel, Why does the media still refer to “Bradley” Manning? The Curious Silence Around A Transgender Hero (Global Comment)
If you really want to show support for a trans woman, you can start by gendering her properly.
(via kiriamaya)
wow i didn’t know any of this. i haven’t been following...
Someone please tell me
… why the “treatment” for knee pain brought on by cold weather involves ice packs? Can it really be true that after all that walking around in the cold, I am supposed to add MORE COLD?
t__t
Amsterdam is a lot of fun so far! Minor gripes aside XD. I will probably post a report to Dreamwidth later.
Put your address in the ask box if you want a postcard! Choice of Amsterdam,...
November 2011
22 posts
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“The article doesn’t quite come out and say it explicitly but I think...”
– From Observational Epidemiology. I’d feel bad about reblogging them all the time but the content is good so whatever. :p
The original L.A. Times article is also worth reading. Less than a third of the characters with speaking lines in blockbuster films are women! I wonder how this would...
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“During the expansion of the housing bubble, lenders felt protected because they...”
– Or, the Higher Education bubble. Something from April I just discovered now. From N+1: Bad Education.
More on why tuition costs have risen.
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Occupy protest taps anger at US campuses →
Apologies for the FT link (if you register you get 30 articles a month free). What’s really been amazing me about the Occupy newspaper coverage is that the reporters are consistently finding good people to quote (or more likely, being found by those people). Anyway, they haven’t been discrediting nearly as much as they usually do.
Also, I kind of wish I was in a US school right now…!
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Image Recognition Software Can Help Cops ID Gang... →
Like other image-recognition programs, the graffiti matching system searches for matches based on commonalities, according to Jain and his colleagues. This helps filter different graffiti that depicts the same logo or tag, but may look dramatically different based on the person or gang who created it. First, the system extracts visual features from a new image, and then letters, numbers and...
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“Indeed, emerging neuroimaging-based evidence indicates that adolescence may also...”
– http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929311001113#sec2
Middle school is when people learn social skills: the neuroscientific explanation and its implications for education policy interventions.
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If I had rebooted Star Trek →
via Feminist SF.
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Shakespeare was not a full-time writer without... →
From metafilter.
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...But they let the protesters back in. →
AND the NY Daily News wrote a sympathetic article, so I’d call this a win for the Occupiers.
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Hero's Adventure - FREE online game - Jay is Games →
charmian:
A v. short game. Play it, it only takes one min. (space to interact w/ things or choose menu items, arrow keys to move around)
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Caught up on Homestuck
In one heroic, probably not very advisable marathon session from Sunday to Monday. This comic has probably over 5,000 separate images, many of which are animated, and is 326,796 words long, only counting page titles and captions.
Anyway, I put my overall impressions on Dreamwidth because they’re a big wall of text and <span> tags (for hiding spoilers) don’t work properly on...
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So I started reading Homestuck
Thanks to fuckyeahfandomderp’s constant fanart bombing, and it’s amazing. Anything I say will only take away from the comic (which also includes music, flash animation, short flash games, and coding puzzles), so really, you should just check it out for yourself.
One thing I wonder, though - and I’m not in the fandom so I don’t know whether this has occurred to anyone else...
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Why Are So Many Literary Writers Switching to... →
It will probably always be open to debate whether these innovations are the result of writers seeking creative expression and wider audiences or a calculated move on the part of publishers who are simply trying to sell more product, even if it means slightly misrepresenting a book to its potential audience. But either way, the future seems to be stories which combine the pacing and plots of...
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Why You Should Be Drinking Cheap Wine →
THIS IS FOR KARA. Except she is even further ahead of the curve than this Salon writer, and wisely drinks box wine. :p
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Should I Make a New Tumblr
…for the stuff I was sharing on Google Reader, or should I post it to G+ the way Google wants me to do?
It’s mostly economics, statistics, public policy stuff. In my mind, the “audience” for it is R’s college friends in NYC (this is just my mental image as I dunno who actually would be reading) and they’re all on G+, so I suppose I should go there.
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October 2011
4 posts
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Happy Halloween '11
Halloween mix as promised to Kara and Sabina. I also have a longer (probably not better) version here: http://8tracks.com/subdee/happy-halloween.
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The Mexican Mafia's Business Plan →
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Things About England
When I took the train into York on Saturday, it was the hottest October 1 ever on record. I thought I’d get to wear my summer clothes and was excited.
Then the temperature returned to normal on Sunday. It’s supposed to snow by the end of the month.
Prices for processed items such as cereal are the same as in the US. Prices for fresh fruits and vegetables are higher, because - get...
September 2011
6 posts
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What Shall I Read? →
NPR uses a flowchart to tell us which SFF books to read.