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Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 5:28 pm on 9/28/2004
Okay: we all know iChat AV is the optimal solution for video chat. We also all know that it doesn’t run on Windows, the platform I’m currently stuck on. Can anyone share about a cross-platform solution that is at least okay? The winner gets a cake.
(I hope I do not have to tell this audience which obvious, smirking reply is not appropriate.)
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 2:58 pm on 9/18/2004
New York Press: The ’60s are over.
I have nothing to add, except that maybe the fact that we keep ritually invoking the 60′s in large protests has something to do with the fact that our candidates can’t stop talking about a war that was over 30 years ago.
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 11:55 am on 9/15/2004
That’s right, kids, it’s a Second-Order Audit. 16 people are taking George Lakoff’s UC Berkeley class “Language of Politics” this semester, and 60 people are auditing it… one of those people is ace blogger danah boyd… and she’s keeping a weblog of class notes and links to assigned articles and books. Helldamn, if the universities won’t open up, we’ll bloody well open them.
Of equal or greater interest than the implications for wired learning is, of course, the course content. I used to think Karl Rove was the scariest motherfucker in politics; now I think it’s Frank Luntz.
[As a side note, and since I know I'll never finish a longer consideration of Nicholson Baker's place in the canon of geek literature, I'll link to this page of resources about his new book Checkpoint. It stands as a document of how many people didn't get the book's funniest joke (the comically unrealistic assassination methods, which in context are clearly a meta-comment on the likelihood that Baker would be charged with some kind of treason for getting specific) nor its ultimate point (that the American left needs to move beyond incoherent anger). And that the NYT Book Review staff still doesn't get it about nasty book reviews.]
[Edit: turns out Ms. boyd is taking the class, not auditing it, which destroys the second-order thing. *sigh* And I do so love abstraction. Oh, well.]