My understanding of biased polls is… (choose one)

  Similar:All About Those Facebook 'Like' Scam PostsWhen you click “like” for a cause in Fac…BusinessWhere the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe. —Thomas JeffersonEducationMedia Bias Chart 7.0 (Left vs Right Bias; High vs Low Value and Reliability; Ad Fontes Med…Don’t reject a news source just because …CultureThe Hitchhiker's…

Teen girl standing in front of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" poster (with cartoon Romans)

I played Pseudolus freshman year in college. Haven’t seen the show in a while.

Similar:Seeing the Barebones production of The Sound Inside. (Support the arts in your community!)PersonalTo all these tools I've loved before…While cleaning out my desk at home I add…AestheticsThe daughter missed her graduation ceremony because she was performing in Kinetic Theatre'…The daughter missed her graduation cerem…AcademiaShould a Journalist Covering Rocky Horror Live Attend the Show in…

How Facebook is killing comedy (and other indie content creators)

Facebook has monetized access to online content. The mobile apps make it difficult for you to actually leave Facebook to follow a link, which means Facebook is increasingly showing other people’s content, bypassing the creator’s own ads (and their “subscribe” and “comment” and “contact us” and “archive” buttons). As Internet comedy writer Matt Klinman puts…

A rare win for Dad.

  Similar:Why Fan Theories Are Destroying Film Discourse Fan theories are no substitute for cri…CultureCarolyn and Nick in Beauty and the BeastAestheticsExcessive Copyright Strikes Again in 2016Current US law extends copyright for 70 …BusinessWaiting for the house to open. @prime_stagePersonal2001: Stanley Kubrick’s Exasperating MasterpiecePosting this mostly to prove that I can …AestheticsA WELL HOUSE FOR…

How Star Wars was saved in the edit

I learned a lot while watching this video. I didn’t realize how much of this movie was driven by off-screen narration. The whole “The Death Star will be in range in five minutes” sequence was added in post. Similar:Kimmel's Jab at Pence's "empty box" joke illustrates a bi-partisan #fakenews problemIf, like pollster Matthew McDermott, you…Current_EventsPhoenix…

Fie upon your multi-page, ad-stuffed crapfest of shame. (Don’t click!)

What I wrote is not actually a list, just a narrative rant against clickbait listicles. Similar:Visionary #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 3, Episode 17) Time-jumping O'Brien Must SufferRewatching ST:DS9 The episode starts …BusinessJust remember: what you’re seeing and what you're reading is not what’s happening.Words apparently spoken by the President…Current_EventsWho is the more dramatic — my…

Apology of Socrates, By Plato

Aristotle classified Plato’s work, representing Socrates’s defense against charges that he corrupted the youth of Athens, as a fiction. But what words! What a defense! (“Greatest mind of history / Solving life’s sweet mystery.” —Schwartz) For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your…

Is your child texting about recursive acronym palindromes?

Is your child texting about recursive acronym palindromes? lol = linguists overinterpret lol gtg = gtg tokenizes gatekeeping mcm = man-crush-monday connotes mania wcw = whoever created woman-crush-wednesday brb = befoggedly redefine brb   Similar:America’s Real Digital Divide If you think middle-class children are…CulturePage Weight MattersUnexpected consequences, when a develope…CybercultureBroken on Purpose: Why Getting It…

If I am not a pedagogical god, at least my marking app has no ungraded submissions.

  Similar:A rare win for Dad. CultureThe other day I did a socialize with some of my Humanities colleagues. (I am proud of myse…PersonalMy precious is fifteen.PersonalThis weekend! GeyerPAC.comPersonalRossum's Universal Robots (Act 1) Artistic ProsperityThe first act of Artistic Prosperity’s v…CultureSo glad to be attending another live theatrical production. @quantumtheatre never disappoi…Projections, live music, sounds, props,…

Certainty vs. uncertainty: “In which are we more likely to be deceived, and in which has rhetoric the greater power?”

I’ve taught Plato’s Phaedrus before, but in the past I have mostly focused on brief passages in which the characters discuss writing, which is really just a side issue. The purpose of today is mostly just to accustom my “History and Future of the Book” students to oral classical culture, in the hopes they’ll get…