A Response To Frank Furedi

Sociologist Frank Furedi recently published an article at Spiked about “Our unhealthy obsession with sickness”. The arguments he makes all, it seems to me, are mistaken. It’s rare I disagree with someone so completely on a topic outside of politics, so I thought I’d go ahead and explain why I disagree… not with a few [...]

On Manufactured Realities…

Check out this article at mssv.net, by Adrian Hon, for a fascinating look at alternate reality games in the context of a much older tradition of reality-artifice stretching back 3900 years (at least).

Cat And Rabbit No Love Can Be Make

Laura posted a link to a sorta funny Korean animation. I grinned a couple of times, so maybe you’d even laugh!

The Smack Shack Attack… (and Philosophical Excerpts.)

My friend Marvin’s been a busy boy lately. Aside from posting links to things like films about Kung Fu Fighting toy hamsters on heroin, he’s also posted a magum opus on postmodernism and empiricism to New Sophists’ Almanac. You can see the first post here, and follow up with part 2, part 3, part [...]

You Belong in Pictures

So there’s a theater where you can watch an animation that includes characters based on the face scans of everyone in the theater. Yes, you get your face scanned and show up as a character in the movie, in Grand Odyssey Futurecast System.
As the blogger at The Speculist from whom I thieved the link [...]

“Official” Definitions of Culture, The Deviations of Reality, and Linguistic Imperialism (In and Out of the ESL Classroom)

Apologies for the title. Sometimes you just cannot do better.
You know, it’s funny how I came to think about all of this.
Chapter Three of the textbook I’m teaching to the majority of my students is about living situations—where people live, landmarks near their homes, who they live with, how they like it. Really [...]

Test #1

I’m off to give a test to my class. It’s the first test for this Freshman screen English class where nobody speaks more than few words of English, it takes a team effort to translate a phrase like “Next week,” and the students have trouble following the video.
The test is fair, but I [...]

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