The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek TOS – a photoset on Flickr

I know what you’re thinking, but my story is that I’m gathering information for a research project on gender in science fiction. Yeah, that’s it. Similar:The exposition officer needs instant access to a pencil case, logbook and mission-critical…AestheticsCaptain’s Holiday (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 19) Picard’s Archeologica…Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….AmusingStack of wooden…

Playing to Learn

Advice from GameCareerGuide.com resembles what I tell my English literature majors about why they are expected to study and benefit from literary works that they might not choose to read for their own pleasure. (The same goes for students in my Video Game Culture and Theory course.) Before you begin down this path there is…

Tech trio seeks market for new game

Anna L. Mallory (Roanoke Times): The game, a takeoff on programs popular before the Internet and Nintendo, blends social-networking and choose-your-own adventure tools. It allows players to not only play games but also create and share their own adventures in user-submitted fictional lands. Mallory also includes some quotes from former Infocom Imp Steve Meretzky on…

After 10 Years of Blogs, the Future’s Brighter Than Ever

In Wired, Jenna Wortham focuses on what blogs typically look like to journalists. Blogs are re-shaping not just news and entertainment, but also publishing, politics and public relations. Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s most famous blogger, is widely credited with putting a human face on the giant company and facilitating an exchange between customer and corporation. Matt…

"Bad news sells best. Cause good news is no news."

Filing this MetaFilter thread on movies about journalism. Similar:Partisan Pa. websites masquerading as local news threaten trust in journalism, new report …People with financial interests to prote…CultureOrson Welles Radio Play "War of the Worlds" at 75 The New York Times reported “Many Fl…CultureInfluencers overtaking journalists as news source: reportTikTok influencers and celebrities are i…CybercultureThank you,…

Dear Urban Dictionary…

I’m misquoted on your December press page. What I wrote was When students are writing about some areas of popular culture, user-authored sites such as Wikipedia and Urbandictionary, or game databases like MobyGames are actually far more useful than academic sources (which take months or even years to appear).  http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink/banning-wikipedia-at-school-go/ But the quote appears as…

seagulls have no class…..

Blogged as a reference, for the next time I have to introduce students to semiotics (ytmnd.com). Similar:Higgs Boson VideoGreat video about subatomic particles, f…AcademiaHuge Collection of Free CC-Licensed Textbooks (2012)2012 Book Archive. Business, humaniti…AcademiaLet’s Make the Academic Job Market More HumaneIt’s been decades since I’ve had the “I’…AcademiaBy the way, humans sent a robot to…

Spider Attacks Space Shuttle

Footage from a NASA camera, via CBS: Similar:In discord with its own rules, the AP refers to an 18yo mass-shooting suspect as a "teenag…The AP’s own rules say an 18yo is an adu…Current_EventsTake a look at the moon tonight!I wish I had the time or energy to get o…AestheticsAmusing Reference to ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Imagine…

Nobel winner blames cultural decline on "blogging and blugging"

Doris Lessing doesn’t like those silly bloggers one bit, as interpreted here via commentary from Ars Technica: Computers and the Internet and the television have wrought a revolution on ways of thinking and spending leisure time, and Lessing doesn’t believe that society as a whole has really thought through the implications of these changes. “And…