Mediated Humanities

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Here’s the audio from Obama’s speech today at UT. The best part was when he quoted the cornerstone:

“Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth.”

RACER DEMO 0.1 – video game mashup from sputnic on Vimeo.

Some odd birds I saw

I’m on an exercise bike.

Saw a sign of the future.
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BP is spewing oil, killing my favorite bird (the pelican), and for what? Transpo? Guess that’s worth it. Although One might argue that biking is better for you and more fun. Shipping? Seems like steam was doing a fine job. (Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the steampunk nostalgia has gotten to me.) Even though I would never admit (in public) to tolerating them, personal watercrafts–jetskis and the like– wasteful as they are, at least represent an all-American kind of fun. But leaf blowers? Come. On. This is what we are destroying our earth for? What kind of a statement could leaf blowers possible be making? I’m too thoughtless to buy a broom? I like to play god by pretending I’m more powerful than the wind? I like noise and air pollution? I like using way too much technology for any given job? Leaves are sinful and must be banished from the garden at great expense? My boss is making me do this, and I don’t have the spine/time/energy/papers to argue about it? I hate compost? What!? The best possible statement is this: “I like to get a marginally important job done quickly and loudly, and I don’t mind wasting a bit of gas on it.” But I fear it is implicit statements like these that, when aggregated, pose a significant attitudinal barrier to change. Do leaves really pose that much of a threat? 

Ironic bc I am on a bike.

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