This:

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and this:

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I recommend that you watch both in HD, and turn the speakers up.

Janelle Monae is fucking amazing. It is so incredibly refreshing to see a female R&B singer who is so self-assured and self-aware. Who is standing out because of her talent and creativity, rather than her sex appeal.

First Sarah and Ian move in next door, and now I find out that Northampton is getting a high speed rail line that will go north to the border of Canada and south to New York and DC. This place just gets better and better.

I am a bundle of contradictions ( Read more... )

When I was fifteen, I got really into this show called Roar. It was about a Celtic prince and his motley band of warriors trying to save their island from magic-wielding Romans. The writing was often awful and it was mostly an exceedingly silly exercise in how to rip off Xena. I watched it because the acting was far better than it should have been ( Read more... )

In 1970 a feminist group called WITCH (Women's International Conspiracy from Hell) devised what they called "unwedding" vows ( Read more... )

If you need a distraction from work, this is hilarious ( Read more... )

Last year, I wrote about digital technology's role in The future of university teaching. I didn't have a specific university in mind when I wrote that post, but as the financial crisis has intensified, I've been thinking that something similar to the model that I outlined in my post would make a lot of sense for the University of California, which ( Read more... )

I just got an ipod touch, and I'm wondering how best to protect it. I had a rubber skin with a hard plastic screen protector for my previous ipod and it worked beautifully. I could just throw it in my backpack and go, and not worry about my keys or pens or whatever scratching it up. I got a similar rubber skin for my ipod touch, but for obvious ( Read more... )

I have a study carrel in the UMass library on the 19th floor. I spend a huge amount of time there, and am planning to spend most of next week there doing research for my final papers. But earlier today when I arrived there to go work in my carrel, I was surprised to find a news crew standing in front of the elevator ( Read more... )

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