Digital Sextant

ThunderfOOt: You’re in denialism.  You can know nothing, you don’t even know that you’re here having this conversation. Ray Comfort: Well, you can know the Truth.  It’s all in the scripture. ThunderfOOt: Well, yeah, but you don’t even know whether you exist, let alone whether the scripture… Ray Comfort: Oh, I know I exist. Takes [… Read More]

Recommended by Columbia colleagues Rob Lagueux and Doug Reichert-Powell:

Brilliant editing. Via RevolutionSF

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Via Pharyngula: She goes by Deborah Gibson now.

One of my favorite YouTubers explains the basics of avoiding swine flu, with a bit of epideology too.

An interesting overlap of two ethical dilemmas.  First, one of my students mentioned today that one of his friends had been murdered recently, shot 47 times in revenge for having stolen something.  As part of our conversation afterward, my students referred to the “no snitching” rule that keeps people from saying anything to the police [… Read More]

So off and on, I’ve played around with GameCam Fraps to record games. It’s a cool little app that I spent some birthday money to buy a year or two ago. One game, when I happened to be recording, I had a string of three extremely lucky (not skillful) kills in Counter-Strike: Source, and I [… Read More]

I went to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Philly this last weekend. A good time was had by all, or by me at least. 1. My paper My presentation considered my same ol’ shtick, what happens to the detective as we enter electracy. This time I took a run at the [… Read More]