Although I am inclined to agree with many of the observations below, as they
are of course self-evident, I think that Jonah Brucker-Cohen has clearly
defined the major problem of media labs in general: isolation from local
production.
I have witnessed the dissolution of various programs and labs
[slashdotted? fine. amazing nonetheless. it's more than a
little interesting to speculate about what region-enocding
could infect next. money? :) --mod (tb)]
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB110593238031627672-IFjgYNmlad4nJysa3qHa6yAm5,00.html
Electronics With
According to NPR, Pres. Bush said the word freedom 27 times in his
21-minute inaugural speech yesterday ? an excellent example of
misleading framing (in the sense recently popularized by George
Lakoff).
Even worse, Bush spoke again of the 9/11 attack as being an attack on
freedom. This is