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Link-o-mania – A Geektastic Handful

By ~LS~ On June 25, 2008 · Add Comment · In Link-o-mania and tagged Tagged With: D&D, Geek, Humor, Jon Stewart, Movies, Obligatory Links, Silliness, Weird Stuff

I cleaned up my bookmarks today. I had too many to keep track of. Mostly they were things I wanted to blog about but never got around to. I had a handful of links that I don’t want cluttering my bookmarks, but that I didn’t want to delete. Mostly cute stuff. So here’s some miscellaneous links:

1. Marc Bousquet’s syllabus for Internet Culture and Information Society. I don’t think I could teach the cyberculture class again. I’m so out of it. I refuse to give up my text-based muds in favor of MMORPGs. I don’t particularly like the social networking. At least I blog (occasionally). Bousquet’s syllabus has them view the Daily Show’s report on Second Life. It’s worth a laugh.

2. An open letter to Star Trek director JJ Abrams. This is a list of things he should NOT do as he makes the Star Trek [...]

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Sexism Sells

By ~LS~ On June 25, 2008 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Hillary, Sexism

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Some thoughts on the Pew Forum’s religion survey

By ~LS~ On June 24, 2008 · Add Comment · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Religion

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a survey about American’s religious beliefs, and it confirmed what I’ve thought about as some crazy religious beliefs in our country.

According to the survey, most of the people who identify with Evangelical Christianity think that there’s more than one way to interpret the Bible, and that there’s more than one way to get to ‘eternal life.’ These beliefs completely counter the most fundamental of Evangelical teachings. First of all, I have to say ‘Thank God” people believe this way, but the ironies abound. My protestant students, for instance, think the Catholics are just like them, without understanding the basic conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism, never mind fundamentalist Christianity. Catholicism is a cult, according to most protestant or evangelical based religions, and many people forget that Catholics were strung up by the KKK or put in camps by the Nazis. [...]

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Link-o-mania – A Geektastic Handful

Sexism Sells

Some thoughts on the Pew Forum’s religion survey

George Carlin, RIP

Obama’s First National Ad

Amy Winehouse’s Valerie

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