“Chores” — Clip from Snow White: The Musical (Stage Right Greensburg, Sept 2012)

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Dennis G. Jerz | Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism, Seton Hill University | jerz.setonhill.edu

Text, Speech, Machine: Metaphors for Computer Code in the Law : Computational Culture

On my to-read list once I post midterm grades. As computer software has become increasingly central to commerce and creativity, lawmakers have retrofitted it into preexisting legal regimes to regulate its production and distribution. Currently in the United States, software is eligible for protection under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law and the First…

While searching my bag for a cable, I found an unexpected wealth of food-substitute items.

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Banned Books Week | Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept. 30 – Oct. 6, 2012

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I think that should be "typefaces," but then I'm a pedantic bore.

Showcase of 60 Free Horror Fonts For Graphic Designers

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Angry 10yo Edits the Paper Heart She Gave Her Mother

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Yes, it’s happening here at Seton Hill. Quidditch.

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Journalism Warning Labels

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Kids Play the Way Scientists Work

Toddlers, multiple experiments have shown, can test hypotheses about how machines work—for example, they can figure out which blocks made a machine play when some but not all blocks trigger the toy. We have to be careful, though. This exploratory, quasi-scientific approach to the world doesn’t last if adults teach kids to do something else: Kids will let adult…

The Writing Revolution

When a failing high school tries to reinvent itself, it turns to writing — with amazing results. At my own high school, our science teacher was a retired nuclear submarine admiral who used to say, “Give me students who can read and write, and I can teach them to pilot a nuclear submarine.” So I’m…

KLINGON STYLE (Star Trek Parody of PSY – GANGNAM STYLE)

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Winky Winky Drudge Report

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Passing On a Torch

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