Digital Culture Studies

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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A Capella tribute to Facebook.

After clearing out more than 10,000 spam comments, although the email for this site is still non-functional (thanks, spam!), this site may or may not be working again. New design to come, but in the meantime, the last 3 things I looked at online:

• Top 87 bad predictions about the future. I will let you make your own flying car joke.
• iPhones ad parody, via Kottke.
• Flock - the ’social web browser’.

Sleepy Urbanite: Cell Phone Art
The Kings Of MySpace (slightly NSFW, very funny)

Video The Vote: Stopping voter suppression, by observingthe vote and sharing the results - on election day.