Googlism is a fun site that tells you what Google “thinks” about you by posting short excerpts of Google search results on your name (or whatever). Google squelched Googlism’s capabilities by preventing the application from gathering fresh data, so… Read more
It is no accident that Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas’s new book, opens with a discussion of the Spice Girls. The Spice Girls represent the negation of feminism by commercial cooptation. Girl Power, which the Spice Girls placed front and… Read more
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April 1st, 2010 | ~LS~ |
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Today I spent the day working on Voxygen. I got quite a bit done. None of it is loaded up yet, of course. I won’t do that until the whole thing is updated, obviously. But I’m moving right along, page by page. One thing I did today that was… Read more
Pardon me while I whine a bit.As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, one of my summer goals is to update my website. This is a daunting task. I counted up how many pages I have on the site and there are over 130! The website is pitifully out of date in… Read more