Archive for June, 2010

Metal and Flesh

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Ollivier Dyens’ book “Metal and Flesh” creates quite a stir among reviewers – some find his stand on the status and future of the body in a machine culture too bizarre to accept.  Others find it an interesting view into the future.  Dyens sees the body as a topographical meeting ground for biology and ideology […]

My first attempt

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

Despite several hours of frustration trying a brand new program, Adobe Premiere Elements 7, I think I have managed to create a video that sends a message. Thanks to Joe Henry for his powerful song, Stop from his CD Scar. Here is Media Production # 1

Star Trek forever!

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

“Space…the final frontier” and ” to go where no man has gone before” were the cues for us to run to the TV to catch the next adventure of the Starship Enterprise.  I know, this ages me, but science fiction fascinates me to this day.  It was my favourite genre for reading (1984, On the […]

Intellectual Property – Prime real estate

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

The discussions about IPRs  has been very interesting.  We teach about plagiarism to our students (and often add hefty consequences for their transgressions) yet  infringe on copyright in our schools – how many of the copies at the Xerox are truly “legal” to be copied?  How many of us insert images/videos/music in our presentations without […]

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