One for bourdieu_boy

by | Feb 24, 2006 | Uncategorized

You prob­ably already know about this one… A Chinese pro­fessor has sued a blog host for per­sonal attacks against him.  Inter­est­ing ques­tions about free­dom of speech and cul­tural clashes. A ques­tion often dis­cussed in cyber­cul­ture courses...

Procrastinatory aids

by | Feb 23, 2006 | Uncategorized

Thanks to Xanni (a.k.a Andrew Pam), friend to pro­cras­tin­at­ors every­where, for Unusual Wiki­pe­dia articles.  I, for one, shall be read­ing the art­icle “Soci­ety for the Pre­ven­tion of Call­ing Sleep­ing Car Port­ers ‘George’ ”. And maybe some of the...

Detournement

by | Feb 23, 2006 | Uncategorized

It’s funny how show­ing vis­it­ors around your city reminds you about how much you love it. In the last few weeks, I’ve hosted vari­ous people through Moon­light cinema and Brun­swick St and espresso in Degraves St and graf­fiti tours. We have the most amaz­ing food...

Equal *work* for equal pay

by | Feb 21, 2006 | Uncategorized

[ganked ver­batim from zarabee] This is fuck­ing awe­some: a Cum­brian equal pay claim based on an EU dir­ect­ive of equal value, which “allows dif­fer­ent jobs to be com­pared for skill, com­plex­ity and respons­ib­il­ity; it focuses on the work, not...