I am going to make a facebook page for the class as part of my project (in addition to a powerpoint with information about facebook). I have finally decided! I was thinking about all the neat things that I can add to it, since there are a million and one applications for it now (music, graffiti, videos, gifts, quizzes, etc), and quotes, pictures, friends, groups, and blogs.
I’ll put a link up here when it’s finished so you can add it!
Original post by Ashley
I am going to make a facebook page for the class as part of my project (in addition to a powerpoint with information about facebook). I have finally decided! I was thinking about all the neat things that I can add to it, since there are a million and one applications for it now (music, graffiti, videos, gifts, quizzes, etc), and quotes, pictures, friends, groups, and blogs.
I’ll put a link up here when it’s finished so you can add it!
Original post by Ashley
“Try It Again.” This infamous (or not) line uttered by one fictitious character named Selden Bishop in Clifford D. Simak’s short story entitled “Immigrant”, in which Selden encourages one of his peers to “Try It Again” after she unknowingly uses her mind powers to stop a glass in mid air from shattering onto the floor. What does it mean to be urged/encouraged to try something unknown? Does it shed new light? Does it allow you to see something in a different perspective? Acquire a new skill/knowledge/power within yourself? Follow a path lead by curiosity? Is this what we need in order to make computer/human symbiosis a plausible and actual thing?
Do we need the curiosity to keep on trying to figure out a way where computers and machines can work together to accomplish some greater good, unlock something that will better society? Will we retreat with fright when this idea of […]
Original post by Peanut!
I have been incredibly behind on this reading but today I am pretty sure I am up to snuff with the days four, six and seven. Hopefully that’s right. If not… well, dang.
To begin, the seventh day just screams out “The Canterbury Tales.” Each work was about how a woman tricked her husband in some way to stay with her lover. The most shocking one I found was the story with the bath, in which the stupid husband cleans it while the lover has his way with the wife. I honestly couldn’t picture this situation in my head. It was too odd. one huge difference I noticed between this chapter and the general vibe of Arabian Nights was that sex and love making was a natural part of a woman’s crazy gene. But for the Decameron, sex is either a very grave subject or an incredibly funny subject. It’s like […]
Original post by badspellar
I know that there are some underlying, important ides centered around Dante’s obsssion with Beatrice and he even states that if you don’t get it, you’re not cool. Well, I can confidently say that I am not worthy of this guy’s time. I get that there is this near obsession with love and that she has a key to his vulnerability and hopes. But when he begins to create this holy air around here I become completely lost.
She is god-like and yet she barely even gives him a second glance. I can understand why there is a sudden relief for him when she dies. I mean, he needed those chains broken. I also don’t understand why he lavishes these poems with gushy imagery and what not but then has these incredibly simplistic and plain explanations. Is there some sort of greater significance involved here?
I’m no real romantic. I’m too skewed […]
Original post by badspellar
I know that there are some underlying, important ides centered around Dante’s obsssion with Beatrice and he even states that if you don’t get it, you’re not cool. Well, I can confidently say that I am not worthy of this guy’s time. I get that there is this near obsession with love and that she has a key to his vulnerability and hopes. But when he begins to create this holy air around here I become completely lost.
She is god-like and yet she barely even gives him a second glance. I can understand why there is a sudden relief for him when she dies. I mean, he needed those chains broken. I also don’t understand why he lavishes these poems with gushy imagery and what not but then has these incredibly simplistic and plain explanations. Is there some sort of greater significance involved here?
I’m no real romantic. I’m too skewed […]
Original post by badspellar
I’ve never read this guy’s works before. I used to think “hey! Inferno? That sounds pretty dang nifty! Nine levels of hell? Wow!” But no, no. Instead what I discover to read is a long-winded description of Dante’s encounter with Virgil (was he in hell or just a guide? I didn’t get it). Then the mentioning of that stupid woman Beatrice AGAIN. And finally a bunch of heavy language that obviously held a number of symbolic undertones that my little brain just couldn’t quite pick up. What I did get was that this guy is incredibly full of himself and has a huge immortality complex. I whole-heartedly concur with the “emo kid” connection to Dante.
Now don’t get me wrong, I found the gory descriptions incredibly interesting and creative. But I thought that this work would just be that, a bunch of descriptions. I had no idea that there would be […]
Original post by badspellar
Yup, it’s time for a blog break. There’s always something interesting to review in the Internet world, but it’s time I focused all my New Media brain power on this project for a while. So, Serena, I give you permission to critique the culture and linguistics of I Can Has Cheezburger. In the mean time, I’m going to figure out how to really cultivate intellectual discourse on the Internet. I’ll report back in a few days or so.
Original post by humanisticmystic
Too bad Dante’s not around to hear Taking Back Sunday.
From the very beginning of Vita Nuova, I get that Dante has elevated Beatrice beyond just Beatrice, some girl he bumped into a couple of times during her life. Rather Beatrice becomes a heavenly entity through Dante’s work. In fact, early on I believe he actually refers to her as a god(dess)– in one of the phrases that required a translated footnote. Dante even devotes an entire section or two of Vita Nuova to the dazzling effect Beatrice has on the people who encounter her, almost as a religious experience. When Dante encounters pilgrims, his first thought is that they must know nothing of the death of Beatrice, the tragedy that his town has suffered. (His second thought is an almost haughty assertion that, were he able to communicate his plight to the pilgrims, Dante could certainly cause them to weep. […]
Original post by jordan
I really really enjoyed watching “The Thin Blue Line”. Any doubts I had about Errol Morris after watching “Gates of Heaven” are now gone. I was fascinated from start to finish.
Our society is very determined that justice should always be served. The root of our desire is to ensure that bad acts are followed by bad consequences. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. However, Morris has eloquently shown us how good intentions are severely distorted by the flaws of human nature. We are peppered from every direction (movies, TV, books) and told that there is good vs. evil and good must win at any cost. Again, I believe this is a basic human instinct and it is a good one. The problem occurs when people allow themselves to be overcome with selfish desires. In this case, the investigators were selfish in […]
Original post by kcannon
