Journal of Media and Culture is an interesting online journal of cultural studies, very broadly defined. Every issue has a single word as the theme. The current issue is on the theme “bad.” I was especially interested in finding this, because the theme I chose for last year’s NCTE conference was a [...]
Archive for April, 2005
Media and culture
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Elizabeth Moje
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Elizabeth Moje will speak on Monday, May 2 in in the Dean’s Lounge, SZB 238, 4:45 P.M.
Social Bookmarking
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2005 | 2 Comments »
There are two cool sites to do social bookmarking. One is del.icio.us., which Randy told me about. You can list all your links there for public browsing and you can read the related links of other people with similiar interests. Here’s my del.icio.us site If you click register you can start your own social bookmarking.
Another [...]
Peer review gone wrong
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Check out this link. It’s pretty funny!
http://theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4116&n=3
Utah Snubs No Child Left Behind Law (from Yahoo News)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Utah Snubs No Child Left Behind Law
U.S. National – AP
By JENNIFER DOBNER, Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY – Snubbing President Bush’s education changes, the Utah Legislature on Tuesday passed a measure giving state education standards priority over federal ones imposed by the No Child Left Behind Act.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has said the state bill [...]
Emily Dickinson
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
From bartleby.com
Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.
Part One: Life
XXI
He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
Part One: Life
XCIX
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands [...]
Funny Comment
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Overheard at Barnes and Noble last night. A nine-year-old (approximately) said to his mother:
“Mama, this is just like a big library!”
Quiz–Which Fantasy/Sci Character Are You?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Click on Yoda to take the quiz.
A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light.
Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not – for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life greets it, [...]
Quiz–Which Pooh character are you?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!
April–National Poetry Month
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Read more about:
Kids need poetry in school
Also:
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” –Percy Bysshe Shelley
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.–Rainer Maria Rilke
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life [...]
