Joss Whedon is a talented person. He writes. He directs. He produces. He even, well, sings (or at least composes). He is also showing solidarity for his peers currently on strike, even though the action likely means cancellation of current television shows and could kill a future deal of his own to return powerful snarky women back to primetime.
BOOM (shuffle)
My first attempt to blog about my friend Matt’s work—BoomShuffle—resulted in a request to wait a few more days. But even if I couldn’t share my delight with the world, I have benefited from five days of use of the music sharing service with an attitude. A modified version of the original post can be found here.
Nanowrimo Day 4- The Travler’s Limitations
Today’s installment involves sharing some of The Traveler’s Traveling limitations:
Why he can’t travel to earth:
The scepter can’t go to earth because of the atmosphere- the oxygen atmosphere would make the scepter crumble.
The crystal is green kryptonite, which would harm Superman, so he can only bring the scepter to earth in the Marvel Universe.
He [...]
Nanowrimo Day 3: The Traveler’s First Travel
The race of creatures in dementia six were like overgrown giant flower creatures. They were vegetarian, but they didn’t eat any of the plants there, they just ate air, basically. Air and water. There were some who also ate themselves just because they were vegetarian.
There was a race of orangish liquid creatures they ate [...]
Demographic bias exists in Social Networks
There was some controversy last June when uber Ph.D. student Danah Boyd wrote an essay for her blog Apophenia reporting on four years of ethnographic research on social networks. That essay claimed there was a demographic segregation by class between Facebook and MySpace. The current issue of the JCMC offers some quantitative evidence that Boyd’s informal observations are correct.
My brother from another mother
When things get a bit too stressful, I like to listen to Bob Schneider. Not just New Bob with his fancy web site and eclectic philosophical songs. I also love the raunchier parental-advisory party-band songs from his (continuing) stints with Ugly Americans and The Scabs. I’ve come to think of him as the cool big brother I never had. I just wish he would visit more.
Nanowrimo Day 2: Time Traveler Origins
Our Second Day of Nanowrimo and Carter:
When he was ten years old he wasn’t a Time Traveler. When he was ten years old, he liked to talk on the phone and play with Model Trains.
He doesn’t have a best friend. He just gets new best friends and then breaks up with them every time he [...]