February 2012
The State Department’s Techie Exchange Program For... →
murmurandshout:
During the Arab Spring, and even before, the Internet and social services like Twitter and Facebook have been lauded as helping to bring change to the Arab world. This summer, the State Department is going to use the Internet to build more bridges to the region, with a program that will take teenage girls from the Middle East and give them a crash course in Silicon Valley. The...
Life For A 21-Year-Old In Homs, Syria
newsweek:
This is happening:
Maras, 21, awoke yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m. to the sound of bombs falling on his neighborhood.
In his world, the Bab Amro neighborhood of Homs in central Syria, this was not the part of his day that shocked him most. This was how it had been for the past six days, he said, bursts of gunfire and shelling booming through the streets every half hour or so in the...
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The Myth of "the Democratization of film...
thefortnightly:
In response to this which appeared as a featured link on IMDB.
My writing this on a blog may appear to render my following criticism meaningless. However, I am not writing to criticize the idea of the internet as a viable means of theoretical discourse. Though in terms of facilitating those discourses, the internet has a lot of growing up to do.
My main issue is that the idea...
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Nominated Songs From ‘Rio’ and 'Muppets’ Won't Be... →
WHAT.
The reason I hate song performances during the Oscars is that usually they drag on for too long. Or that they are too somber/dull. This year it would have been entertaining and brief and they cut them.
and I mean seriously THE MUPPETS. and you say “NO THAT WOULD BE A BAD IDEA EVERYONE HATES AWESOME THINGS THAT ARE CUTE. Besides, we have to make more room for the hip, current,...
January 2012
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“Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown. …There is something so hopelessly...”
– Some small-time children’s book author named MAURICE SENDAK, to Stephen Colbert, on The Colbert Report.
Where the accurate things are.
(via inothernews)
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maybe I'm amazed
I actually completed a New Year’s resolution! Over the past year I read 52 books and dang, I don’t think I’ll be up for that this year.
My favorites were (in no particular order):
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Persepolis’ by Marjane Satrapi
Four Fish… by Paul Greenberg
Astro City vol....
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December 2011
