Archive for December, 2006
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
The state of the union
From IM this morning.
maura: Top Searches:
1. Saddam Execution Video
2. Saddam
3. Saddam Hussein
4. Saddam Video
5. Saddam Execution
6. Miss Nevada
maura: oh, america.
1 Comment » - Posted in Culture by Misha
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Shameless Friend Promotion
Speaking of audience/creator feedback loops, my friend Shana TiVo-blogged the John Stamos gay-marriage TV movie Wedding Wars for Planet Out last night. It’s delightful and funny, and much faster than watching the whole thing yourself.
9:49: I OFFICIALLY LOVE THIS MOVIE. Sean Maher: “What are you doing? You’re not political. You don’t even watch the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Personal, Links by Misha
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Living in the future II
It’s living in the future early-00’s stylee to push ‘pause’ on your TiVo, fire up iChat on your wireless laptop, and tell your oldest friend that her most famous relation is tonight’s guest on the Colbert Report. By this point, that’s almost passé.
But it’s living in the future mid-decade-wise to see Colbert on the […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Life online by Misha
Friday, December 8th, 2006
This “Internets” thing the kids are so crazy about
I remember, back in the mid-90s, showing a grad school friend how to use Netscape. When she clicked on a link and the screen changed, she nearly jumped out of her seat in shock.
Nice to know not that much has changed in academia higher education in the humanities. (Change as per that extremely academic […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Life online by Misha
Friday, December 8th, 2006
Technoliteracy
Yesterday, I heard the mother of two young kids talk about how her kids played with European-made toys, and educational games, and anything electronic or beeping was banned from her house or had the batteries removed.
After I put her on a mental “no fun at parties” list, I found myself thinking about those kids, and […]
