Now that h1n1 has degenerated from a worldwide crisis to a party favor, people have been complaining about how various public health authorities handled the crisis, when the flu turned out to be a regular flu. While I’m certainly not keen on the paranoid behavior of Japanese bureaucrats who effectively shut down the Society for …
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TV vs. Movies, Part 3000
Steven Rubio has a great post about a review of the new Star Trek movie that criticizes it for aspiring to being a television show (whatever the film’s flaws, I would be surprised if this were its problem). His objection is that the writer still assumes television is a vast wasteland while movies are still …
Reconsidering the Barometer of “Placement”
A great post about what is occluded in the term “placement” over at the Edge of the American West seems really timely, given the bad job market this past year. Mostly I just agree with it even though it’s more about history than Comm Studies. I would add that the placement statistic also reifies the …
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Someone’s got my number
I read more and more Montreal blogs — ones that deal with the city and with urban (and suburban) questions in general. I’ve got a postdoc interested in communication infrastructure and the US/Canadian landscape, and I’m reawakening to old interests in urban planning and suburban form as I start to get inklings of post-mp3-book projects. …
More on Sainte-Marie: Really Reclassified
Last weekend we wandered in and out of some of the attractions of Portes ouvertes design Montreal. There were lots of highlights: I was very impressed with the augmented reality work of Moment Factory. But recycling was big this year and a number of architecture, design and fashion outfits trumpeted their ecological approach. One such …
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Ballet of Trucks now available for download
http://lo-boy.net http://lo-boy.bandcamp.com Ballet of Trucks was originally released in 2003. Now it’s available in all your favorite digital formats. Like Radiohead and Saul Williams, we let you name your price or no price at all. If you download, we will take your email address and notify you when our second album comes out sometime in …
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Apparently, blogging is at its best when it’s re-reactive
One more, last Mark Taylor response. Now I’ll cut it out.