Saturday, August 31, 2013

The Uses of Snowden: The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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When Ed Snowden, our pissy and so self-righteous Defender of the Faith and of All Truth, who Sees the Higher Path and knows What is Right w...
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Lawrence in Damascus

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I can not think of anything more pointless and certain to backfire than getting involved in the internecine wars between various factions i...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Uses of Snowden: Perception of the Death Penalty in the World at Large

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This is the second of three essays on how Ed Snowden has been very helpful in bringing matters to our attention outside of the area which ...
Monday, August 26, 2013

The Uses of Snowden: Passports are Given and Passports are Taken Away

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[revised 8/27/2013] One commonly held theory is that Snowden is useful for stimulating dialog and discussion in America on a variety of ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Review of SIGGRAPH 2013 (in progress)

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[Being written... very difficult for some reason] This is a review/synopsis of SIGGRAPH 2013. I have been remiss in getting this ...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Humor in Archaeology

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Many Americans see academia as dry and formal, elite and lofty palaces of higher thought staffed by dedicated monk-like professional educ...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Scorsese on the History and Nature of Film

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The online version of the New York Review of Books (August 2013) has an essay by Martin Scorsese about the history and meaning of film.  ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Post SIGGRAPH Brain Rot

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SIGGRAPH always seems to fall on my birthday, and between the two of them I am ready to be completely dysfunctional for a month.   When we ...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Vast Government Conspiracy to Make Bad Movies and Influence Third World Revealed in Foreign Affairs

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Isn't it convenient that Ed Snowden forgot to expose our Government's secret multi-decade program to influence world affairs thr...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Art, Fine Art and Ender's Game

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If one wants to know the very essence of Hollywood creativity, look no further than Ender's Game . It is the very height of what ma...