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An Object Lesson. At the 68th Golden Globe Awards, a visibly pregnant Natalie Portman ascended the stage to collect the Best Actress award for her work in the psychological drama Black Swan. Her earnest three minute speech is standard Hollywood fare; she thanks her grandparents, her parents, her manager, her co-stars, and her director. Political Rhetoric. Suggest to many minds an associated idea of empty declamation, or of dishonest arti ce”(1828, p. xxxi).
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Political language: "Gun safety" versus "gun control" Reading, Writing and Video Games. How to Manufacture Desire: An Intro to the Desire Engine. Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it.
Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or even “Pinterest addict” and you’ll soon get a slew of results from hooked users and observers deriding the narcotic-like properties of these web sites. How is it that these companies, producing little more than bits of code displayed on a screen, can seemingly control users’ minds? On Archer's Underground Comix Roots, by Charles Bock. In my review of the animated spy show Archer (FX) in the March issue of Harper’s, I began by tracing the show’s sensibility back to The Simpsons, and to one sequence in particular, the infamous Rake Scene, in which Sideshow Bob steps on nine consecutive rakes (the clip shows only the first few): By the time the episode aired, I wrote, “The Simpsons had permanently colonized the territory of the absurd and freewheeling.”
The show was at the vanguard of the adult animated comedies that emerged in the mid-1990s, helping spawn the anticomedy movement before reaching its apex in Archer’s own razor-sharp, NSFW absurdism: As you can see, Archer is so outrageous it’s hard to believe the show even airs. Beneath its filthiness, however, lies a recognizable anarchistic urge.
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Transforming vice into virtue, they’re social engineering spectacles that use aesthetic tricks to disguise the profound ethical issues at stake. This isn’t an academic concern: Zuckerberg’s vision (as portrayed by the ads) is being widely embraced — if the very recent milestone of half a million installations is anything to go by. Critics have already commented on how the ads exploit our weakness for escapist fantasy so we can feel good about avoiding conversation and losing touch with our physical surroundings.
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The pitiful man, who works in development and design at the Seattle-based software company Woot, told reporters he takes time out of every day to “promote and further [his] brand” and to extend his “social and online presence.” “I am my own product,” the little worm said while staring at a laptop and depressingly shuffling between his Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Plus, and Tumblr accounts, which he claimed are “essential tools for growing [his] personal brand” on a daily basis. “I think of myself as the creator, developer, and marketer of Brand Phillip Cathin. And the ideas I come up with are products produced by that brand.”
When Jim Crow Drank Coke. Politics and the Dancing Body - Exhibitions Republicans Ask 'Are You Better Off?' and Many Reply 'Yes' Early on Tuesday, the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Republicans took to Twitter and moved to shape the conversation on the Internet about the state of the country since President Obama was elected in 2008.
Using Twitter’s sponsored hashtag feature, they promoted a question that was anything but rhetorical: #areyoubetteroff Americans across the country are talking about how #ObamaIsntWorking. Join the conversation: obamaisntworking.com #AreYouBetterOff— RNC (@GOP) September 4, 2012. The Unexpected Impact of Coded Appeals. After signing into law the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B.
Johnson famously told an aide, “we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come.” Indeed, the Johnson-Goldwater contest was notable in two important respects related to race: it featured the first appearance in almost a century of racial animus as a central dimension of partisan conflict in a presidential election, and it was the last time a Democrat received a majority of the white vote. Attention to matters of race has surged in recent weeks with the appearance of a pair of purportedly race-coded ads. One, paid for by the Republican National Committee, alleges that President Obama intends to weaken the work requirements provision in the 1996 welfare reform law, and another, paid for by Romney for President, states that “the money you paid for your guaranteed health care is going to a massive new government program that is not for you.” .... wore khakis. Anxiety Culture.
Information wants to be free. "Information wants to be free" is a slogan of technology activists invoked against limiting access to information. According to criticism of intellectual property rights, the system of governmental control of exclusivity is in conflict with the development of a public domain of information.[1] History[edit] The iconic phrase is attributed to Stewart Brand.[1] who, in the late 1960s, founded the Whole Earth Catalog and argued that technology could be liberating rather than oppressing.[2] The earliest recorded occurrence of the expression was at the first Hackers Conference in 1984. Brand told Steve Wozniak:[3] The Past, Present, and Future of Ownership. Unintended Consequences: Fifteen Years under the DMCA.
Unintended Consequences: Fifteen Years under the DMCA March 2013 This document collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against “pirates,” but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors.
Sports and Pop Culture from Bill Simmons and our rotating cast of writers. Magazine - Host. [Click the phrases within the colored boxes to read the commentary.] Mr. John Ziegler, thirty-seven, late of Louisville's WHAS, is now on the air, "Live and Local," from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. every weeknight on southern California's KFI, a 50,000-watt megastation whose hourly ID and Sweeper, designed by the station's Imaging department and featuring a gravelly basso whisper against licks from Ratt's 1984 metal classic "Round and Round," is "KFI AM-640, Los Angeles—More Stimulating Talk Radio.
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Why the 'I Voted' Sticker Matters - Derek Thompson. It's a form of social payment -- and an advertisement Reuters They're everywhere on election day: "I Voted" stickers. I've seen them on jackets and shirts and faces. Was Petraeus Borked? When a D.C. video store revealed the Supreme Court nominee’s list of video rentals, it sparked a privacy backlash and a new law. Hold! Petraeus!!! President Obama Would Choose to Fight the Horse-Sized Duck - Conor Friedersdorf. ‘Viva La Revolucion!’ Obama Campaign Rolls Out New Typeface Inspired By… Visible Language. Common-place. MediaShift Idea Lab. Emoji Explained. Emoticon Origins :-) In Praise of the Hashtag. Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. WW2 Cartoons. AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials. McDonald's Big Mac TV Commercial, 'Mouth Soiree'
New Skin Cream To Do Something. CINCINNATI—Representatives from Olay skin products confirmed Monday that their new skin cream does something, like “something that has to do with aging, or smoothness, or some other skin thing.” “You apply it, and it makes your skin good,” said Olay spokeswoman Christina Lowell, adding that the new skin cream more than likely does stuff with “skin tone and has a bunch of vitamins and minerals or whatever.” AriZona Iced Tea's Open Letter to Miley Cyrus from Dashiell Driscoll. Dear Miley, Jim Sterch here from AriZona Iced Tea’s marketing department. 23% Of Americans Supported Martin Luther King When He Marched On Washington. Just Sayin'.
In cold type. Teaching Copyright. Some Statistical Habits to Add, or Subtract, in the New Year. The Misremembering of ‘I Have a Dream’ Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood. Watch Free Documentaries Online. Docs I Love - Free Online Documentaries And Lectures. Documentaryjungle.com. Obama takes on the press. Politico's Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To. Conflict of Interests.
In a year saturated with political conversation, can there be any topic that has not yet been discussed? George Edwards and the Powerless Presidential Bully Pulpit. The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Quartet: A Columnist's Farewell: How to Read a Column. Working the Room. Well-Liked Leaders Know The Secret: Make Us Laugh. Listen to Well-Liked Leaders Know The Secret: Make Us... from Talk of the Nation online. 6 things you can miss while reading a newspaper. A Look Behind Designing The State Decoded. Watzlawick's Five Axioms. Persuasive Tech.
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