I apologize again for all the gross porn spam that’s been showing up lately. With all its advantages, WordPress.com has some major shortcomings, and spamability is one of them. In addition, my computer has been out of commission for a couple of days so I haven’t been able to keep up with the spam or [...]
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Quit Facebook | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters "Whatever the label, I was unhappy and feeling empty. The amount of time I spent on Facebook had pushed me into an existential crisis. It wasn’t the time-wasting, per se, that bothered me. It was the nature of the obsession – namely self-obsession. Enough was enough. I left Facebook." [...]
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From Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Award-winning photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson showed images from his coverage of the Iraq War and described the war’s toll on the homefront to a meeting of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on October 10, 2008. This presentation was jointly sponsored by the Jefferson Society and the Virginia Quarterly Review to mark [...]
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Mygazines Folds – emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com "Lawyers representing a large swath of consumer and b-to-b publishers—including Time Inc., Hearst, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, American Media Inc., Reed Business Information, Bonnier, Ziff Davis and Forbes, among others—had sued Mygazines.com, which lists its address as a post office box on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, and its [...]
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October 16, 2008, 7:45 a.m. – The Guilfoile-Warner Papers – The Morning News '“Joe the Plumber” was mentioned more than a dozen times in the debate as McCain tried to use a real life example of middle class struggle to show why the Obama tax plan would be bad for the economy and bad for [...]
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Writer’s Eye 2008 The Writer’s Eye competition invites youth in grades 3–12, University students, and adults to submit original prose and poetry compositions inspired by particular works on view in the Museum. This year a major focus of the program will be the special exhibition El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios. Area teachers and writers judge all [...]
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Great story coming up on UVA Today 'Great story coming up on UVA Today about a new book, “What Should I Read Next?” that compiles reading recommendations from 70 different U.Va. professors.' Novelist Christopher Buckley Resigns After Blog Post – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "A Daily Beast post just cost a political novelist his column at the [...]
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Print and fold your own Edgar Allen Poe | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times "Edgar Allen Poe: master of mystery and suspense and short stories. A little gloomy and creepy. And now — for free! — you can have a folded paper version of the author, just in time for Halloween. Actually, you could [...]
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