Category: Digital Culture

For those of you who haven't been introduced into the bizarre world of the Cthulu mythos, Kuro5hin comes to the rescue with a brief introduction. Great pulp horror, wierd and Victorian and completely different than other types of horror that most people are familiar with. Much more psychological, with characters that literally lose their mind when they see things that the human mind can't understand or accept.

In the interest of full disclosure, this IS coming from someone who bought his wife a stuffed Elder God.

Has anyone see my face?

I believe that I had it rocked off last night.

Busy, busy weekend. First off was a birthday lunch at PF Changs for Karen that ended up in the mall for many more hours than is probably healthy. Saturday was a failed bicycle riding attempt with Jean and Justin (maybe next weekend?) and today = Counting Crows/John Mayer concert at Alltel in Raleigh. Then…more school.

I've decided that I really like school…I just don't want to do the damn work right now.

Baseball pics are up!

http://www.ibiblio.org/griffey/gallery/bulls2003

Thanks to all the feedback from yesterdays post, it looks like I will be switching over to Jones' Virtual Communities class.

This has a lot to do with the fact that I'm just not really having fun in Ethics. It seems like a good class, and would be good….it just seems like a big review to me, having done much of this sort of thing previously. Virtual Communities seems like it would be more fun, and quite frankly as an elective, I'd rather have fun.

Second day of school. Faced with dilemma. Please help.

I'm currently enrolled in Information Ethics with Dr. Wildemuth. It appears to be a good class, and it will cover a lot of ground that I think I will enjoy.

However, I would really like to take Paul Jones' class in Virtual Communities. Which, of course, meets at the same time.

So…with no other info: what do you all think?

This is one of the cooler things I've seen in the world of Information Ethics in a long while. Privacy Activism has put together a Flash game which wraps up a TON of useful information for college students in one place: privacy, online tracking, copyright infringment….just tons of interesting things. Check it out.

from the Wired Article….
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Learning to Play the Prying Game. Privacy Activism seeks to illustrate the pitfalls awaiting newly minted college students through a new Flash game. Will Carabella be hounded by identity thieves and data aggregators? Play and find out. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]

While tomorrow is technically the first day of school, today sure felt like it. I took part in the UNC Summer Reading discussion section, leading a discussion of 18 freshmen concerning the book Nickel And Dimed. Prior to that was work in the Serials Cataloging Department in Davis, and after it was training in the Reference Dept. in the same library. After THAT, there was a meeting in Manning for the first year SILSer's.

I'm trying desperately to not think about the fact that I have to be on campus at 8:15am for a class tomorrow. Or that Tuesdays are my longest day at school.

Freaking fabulous news from the BBC: They're putting their archives (both radio and TV) online, for free, accessible by anyone. This is just completely the coolest thing ever…hopefully this will be a model for future open information from other media creators.

Best quote of the year (I want this thing on a T-shirt):
“I believe that we are about to move into a second phase of the digital revolution, a phase which will be more about public than private value; about free, not pay services; about inclusivity, not exclusion. ” -Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC

Read the story here.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Hizzle Last Gasp of Summer Dinner Party last night…the food was amazing from all. Hizzle needs to provide us all with the recipe for those chocolate pepper cookies, and possibly the pasta sauce as well (was it anything except tomato and mozzarella?). Trish: how do you do the Baked Brie?