[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhHKWtrGggA&w=480&h=390] Water on the Brain One night in December 2007, I was hanging out with two of my friends and we were bored. On television two news pundits were debating whether or not ...
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What Twitter Looks Like During a Revolution
This is a fascinating info-graphic depicting Egypt’s social media organization and uprising. Kovas Boguta, the creator of this map, describes the connections between Twitter users on his blog. He does a great job at explaining ...
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Mystery of the Sphinx: Egypt and Tactical Media
Protester attacked by camel at recent demonstration. Egypt is Demonstrating Tactical Media and the power of Social Networking The key to ignition. Facebook, Twitter, SMS and blogs were crucial organizing tools that ignited the social ...
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What do memes mean?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea5XfEVGRkk&w=480&h=390] How did this cat get over 40,611,000 hits on Youtube? More ominously, is this feline a threat to humankind as it propagates itself through cyberspace? It’s time to investigate the debate over the nature ...
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Killer Clowns
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKlpMxBX-jk&fs=1&hl=en_US] Counterculture Consumerism Woop, Woop! I wrote this cuz juggaloz are realz. They’re havin babies and burying babiez. Cradle 2DA grave. Juggalos are more than a family. It’s like Juggaloz are its own ...
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You want another rap?
Neopatrimonialism and Dominant Party Stability: The 2011 Ugandan Elections A video recently uploaded to youtube features the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, at a conference podium addressing an audience. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZZKPxsGDo&fs=1&hl=en_US] “I can even give you some ...
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Cutting out the Story: School Knifings in China
When two teenaged boys took revenge upon their high school in 1999 the world took notice. The Columbine tragedy quickly became the year’s top story. In a Pew Research Study 70% of Americans said that ...
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Theoretically Speaking
Behold beautiful Colorado and its magnificent autumn aspens! Actually since moving here I haven’t made it out of my house very much. I took this picture at the end of peak color. There was a ...
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That’s Apple Cider For Ya Folks!
For 35 years a close group of family and friends have met for a weekend in October to make homemade apple cider. This tradition of autumn in the country is locally known as Squeezins. I ...
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Zsolt
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qck2IF5w-yc&fs=1&hl=en_US] When it comes to talking to strangers at public pools I’m probably not the best person to give advice. Several years ago a man with a billy goat beard rolled by me in a ...
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