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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Accepted, the review – Images of the educational process in popular culture
From the Wikipedia entry: Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they had applied, create their own college. … At one point Bartleby [the … Continue reading
Wikipedia – the Original Encyclopedia
BBC – Radio 4 In Our Time – Home Page the mammoth undertaking that was the Encyclopédie – one of its editors, D’Alembert, described its mission as giving an overview of knowledge, as if gazing down on a vast labyrinth … Continue reading
Tom Waits and the surface of text
ANTI- Album – Orphans What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear. Just … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Linguistics, Literature and narrative, Reviews
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Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview
YouTube – Team America Finale Speech PhatGun (3 months ago) HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA SO TRUE!!! Tomster22 (19 hours ago) Neo-Cons = Dicks, Peacenicks = Pussies, Islamo-Fascists = Assholes AerisRocks (2 months ago) lol! Thats a great metaphor they used…assholes want us to … Continue reading
Trouble in Ambridge: Optical illusions and hypostesized narratives
BBC – Radio 4 – Feedback Love quadrangle Things have been getting very steamy in the cowshed at Brookfield lately and Archers listeners who’ve written to Feedback talk of sensationalism and complain that some of the main characters seem to … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Literature and narrative
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Revenge of the Nerds (1984) – Review 1
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) They’ve been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it’s time for the odd to get even! I decided it’s time to start keeping track of my frequent encounters with popular culture – … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Reviews
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YouTube of the 1890s
BBC – Radio 4 – Archive Hour – 21 October 2006 Matthew Parris uncovers the remarkable story of the Electrophone, the first sound broadcasting service to operate in Britain. Electrophone (information system) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name Electrophone … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Social Science, Technology and life
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Analogies in public discourse: Negotiation of Frames and Hypostasis of Channels
Buzz Out Loud: CNET’s podcast of indeterminate length on CNET.com [click here to listen to clip] recently featured this fascinating discussion of analogies. A caller suggests an analogy and the hosts discuss both the aptness of the analogy itself as … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Linguistics, Technology and life
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Localized textual performance in everyday narrative
14 WFIE, The Tri-State’s News Leader: Manhunt Ends, Baby Found Safe A fugitive couple who hid in a camper are now behind bars. The kidnapped baby is safe, and the funeral for the social worker who cared the baby is … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Literature and narrative
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Psychological violence, cuts, bruises and world peace
Evening News 24 – Cyclist attacked by An N&N spokesman said: âAccording to sources this gang has been doing this for a while – stopping people at the bridge and demanding money to get across. âBut this was the first … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, News and media, Society and politics
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