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Archive for June, 2007

Monday’s reading.

I’m looking for the “Chaste Subjects” reading on the blog and not seeing it. Am I being a moron? Is anyone else finding it?
Original post by jordan

Just Czeching

This isn’t exactly directly related to anything discussed in class, but as it is something internet-related, I’m going to claim relevance. I was going through a long, unfruitful, and highly convoluted process to track down my ancestry (namely, which physical traits originated in which countries) involving Google Image Search and came across this site. Here’s [...]

Web 2.0: mindless vaccum? I think not.

I’ve been perused Newsvine. The “Leaderboard” seemed to be a good place to see what other Newsviners like to read. One particular opinional, The Revolution Will Not Be Socialized — The Homogenization of Social Media by Killfile, caught my full attention.
Some see Web 2.0 socialization as nothing but a mindless faux pas, a metropolis for the masses to win their fifteen [...]

Yojimbo and Star Wars

Alright, I’m promising myself this is the last video clip I’ll post. It’s just that when we were talking about the similarities between the arm-chopping scenes in Yojimbo and Star Wars, this clip is the first thing that popped into my head. It’s too funny not to post. Seriously. Watch it.
For those who like it, [...]

Yojimbo’s Style of Humor

As I watched Yojimbo the other day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen its style of humor somewhere before. It wasn’t until I was driving home after class that it hit me: it’s the exact same style of humor as is in the movie Army of Darkness.
What’s interesting about this style of [...]

Yojimbo’s Style of Humor

As I watched Yojimbo the other day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen its style of humor somewhere before. It wasn’t until I was driving home after class that it hit me: it’s the exact same style of humor as is in the movie Army of Darkness.
What’s interesting about this style of [...]

Exploring Newsvine

Once again, another webgem has surfaced. Newsvine is a completely user-controlled news website. It encompasses many of the characteristics of a self-efficiency that I am interested in studying, especially those of bound structure social networking. Newsvine works like a blog in that users create a profile and post an entry. In this case, entries are expected to [...]

Useless Body Parts

Useless Body Parts
Which body parts are useless? Go look, it’s actually pretty entertaining… well to me it is.
Original post by Amanda

Sherlock Holmes, Ned Beaumont, and Dr. Gregory House

After today’s class I naturally ran back home and checked out IMDB for some references of film noir. I never really got anything too good, but then I got to thinking of current pop culture references to 50’s-detective-sherlock-holmesy type icons (whew!) and came to a sort of obvious conclusion:
Dr. Gregory House from House, MD.
Ok, before [...]

Toshiro Mifune

Watching “Yojimbo” for the first time gave me the chance to witness, in my opinion, one of the finest actors of any generation; and for that I am grateful.  This class forces us to strip down films, and analyze parts of it that wouldn’t normally be obvious to the average film buff.  I have to [...]