Kanye West just leaked a video for his new single, “Monster” featuring the Muppets and Sesame Street.
“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”
—William Gibson, Zero History
A coalition of 10 library and open-access advocacy groups has sent a letter to Congress opposing HR 3699, the controversial Research Works Act. The American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of College and Research…
Wings of a Dragon (with Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman)
What happens when a paleontologist loves a creationist?
CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…I would have also looked for “Days Where Ice Cube Didn’t Have to Use His AK”, but this is pretty thorough.
Thank you, as always, for your very kind emails, which I promise to catch up on now that my semester is over.
Here’s some fun stuff:
• Some of the students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (full disclosure: where I currently attend and teach) made a feminist-focused blog in the style of…
Simon Cowell’s new show will find the world’s greatest DJ
Cowell, who’s been developing this show for over a year now, calls DJs the “new rock stars” and says that the show will capture the trendy rise of “the “DJ phenomena.” The show, which doesn’t have a title yet, will operate similarly to the X Factor.
