At what point did holding our attention begin to require laser beam sounds, swooping graphics, and exploding CGI robots? Seriously, I want to know. We all know how the Fox New Channel revolutionized television news by adding flashy visuals to its programming, which, for millions of Bruckheimer-loving viewers, made the news more watchable. Of course, [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Radio Frequency
29-May-06Note To Spammers
24-May-06An email subject line including the phrase “Hell is paved with infant skulls” does not entice me to purchase your goods and services. It just creeps me out. Thank you.
Colfax Represent
22-May-06Thanks to Jon for pointing out this site about Colfax Avenue in Denver, quite possibly one of the coolest streets in the country. First line of the site’s description: Colfax: It has played host to a pope and is the workplace of prostitutes. Precisely.
A Perfect… Five.
18-May-06As legend has it, it was while stepping into a bathtub that the mathematician Archimedes discovered his law of buoyancy. Just as submerging himself into the bathtub raised the level of water around him, he determined that could other objects could be submerged in water to calculate their volume. So elated was Archimedes by his [...]
Grammar and Gramsci
15-May-06It was one year ago this week that I finally graduated college. That meant never having to open up another book on social theory again. But after a little while, I’ll admit that I started to miss those little guys and their impenetrable texts. So in honor of commencement week, and all those nerds out [...]