Digital Culture Studies

Thank you MichaelH for your help in upgrading my Wordpress software. Now, a month of school, and then some redesigning and tweaking - I know there are problems with the css in places, and a few links are messed up.

But fixing it has to wait all these papers are written!

• Fashionspace.com: What MySpace did for music, Fashionspace hopes to do for design. Ganked from Second City Style.
• UN Data: The section on internet users is probably most relevant to this blog, but the life expectancy and refugee statistics will break your heart.
• Scottish Geneology Records online: Now we can all prove our claim of being directly descended from Rob Roy MacGregor.

Ben Stein has a new movie out, called Expelled: No intelligence allowed. The tagline is pretty precious: Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom. What they forgot is every generation has its rebel…Ben blows the horn on supression. Apparently, Big Science also expelled grammar from the classroom. Its hard not to automatically reach for the joke on this one, but the movie is dead serious about ‘exposing’ the stranglehold so called Big Science has on …. science…and how unaccommodating they are about teaching things that….aren’t scientific….in science classrooms.

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Of late, I have become very interested in representations of women in the media, as part of my ongoing theme of interest that can be best described as how women consume media, and how media consumes women. Tell me what is wrong with this soundbite, from an interview in Elle magazine (scroll down to the headline, “Ashton Kutcher talks sex, drugs with his stepdaughters.”

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• Beware the curse of YouTube: Lore Sjöberg explains why having every bit of pop culture online is a dangerous thing, using the lyrics of La Isla Bonita his example.
  
• PDF Pad: Excellent free source of templates - from Cartesian graph paper to blank sheet music.
• Wesabe: A social networking site for your bank account.