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Cut and paste for your troops

By ~LS~ On November 11, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Obama, Politics, Slacktivism, War

On this Veteran’s Day, stop fake support of your troops.

Today is Veteran’s Day, a day that spawns a number of cut and paste micro-memes on Facebook. After last month’s screed on pinkwashing, I feel compelled to repeat my rant pre-emptively as the first posts start to trickle in.

People see the “Support our Troops Cut and Paste” and they dutifully follow directions without taking a moment to honor the sentiment, and without admitting that they’ve accomplished absolutely nothing meaningful in any way.

I find flag waving “support your veteran” statuses on Facebook amusing. They’re pointless. I might as well cut and paste a status from a status generator app (they do exist) – that’s about how interesting and meaningful those memes are.

Last year when this sort of thing went around, a lot of posts falsely claimed that Obama was cutting Veterans’ benefits, giving more money to welfare, [...]

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Pecha Kucha in Public Speaking

By ~LS~ On October 23, 2010 · Add Comment · In Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Technology and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Speech, Teaching, Teaching Activities

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A funeral for my e-texts page

By ~LS~ On October 20, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Facebook, Voxygen

My first version of Voxygen was posted in 1996. It was fun building the most rudimentary webpage and exploring what could be done on the internet. Since then, things have changed so much so that I feel like I’m on another planet. Sometimes I wonder whether not I am suffering from “information fatigue.” Wondering? No…I know I am. I don’t feel the extreme levels of anxiety or sleeplessness that it presumably provokes. I have noticed, however, that I can’t keep up with Facebook — I bookmark hundreds of things my friends post and then spend too much time deleting them without reading any of them because the list is obscenely long. I no longer surf any of my usual reading spots. RSS readers have made blog surfing incredibly easy. The downside, however, is that with a simple click of a button, I flood my RSS reader with [...]

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I like it without pinkwashing

By ~LS~ On October 6, 2010 · 17 Comments · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Fashion/beauty, Gender, Pop Culture, Science, Sexism, Slacktivism, YWCA

This week I received many Facebook messages urging me to tell my friends “where I like it” in my Facebook status. I’ve seen my friends post such mysterious statuses as “I like it on the chandelier” and “I like it on my car seat.” This morning I posted, “I like mine without pinkwashing.” Many people didn’t understand my status or why the meme makes me so angry. I have two simple answers:

1. I hate pinkwashing.

2. This is nothing but Facebook slactivism.

Put differently, I do not believe that if I post an “I like it…” status on Facebook, I have done something significant to advance women’s health.

Instead of pinkwashing, send a $5.00 check to the YWCA who will spend it helping poor women, primarily women of color, get free mammograms.

What is pinkwashing?

pinkwashing is the commodification breast cancer. I’ll let Wikipedia explain (quoting the [...]

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10 reasons why Blackboard Learn sucks

By ~LS~ On October 5, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Technology and tagged Tagged With: Educational Technology, Teaching, Work Sucks

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Pre-grading Procrastinatory Thoughts

By ~LS~ On September 29, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Pop Culture, Silliness, Teaching, Work Sucks

1. Procrastinatory is a real word. I looked. But Webster’s online dictionary is now subscription based. WTF?

2. I’ve decided to wave just like Willow — with large smiles and much enthusiasm. I’ve put this decision into practice. It seems to be going well.

3. After many years of trying to explain in simplistic language why we don’t call Asian people “Oriental,” I’ve finally decided just to show a picture of the world “upside down.”

4. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the same movie? Way too much hawtness in one movie. However will I stand it?

5. My fifth post today. Obviously I’m feeling chatty.

6. Ben Affleck is a better storyteller than he is an actor. To this day I still don’t understand why Kevin Smith let his monologue in Chasing Amy go on for fifteen minutes. He’s [...]

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Cut and paste for your troops

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