Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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San Diego Comic Con 2010
Given that San Diego Comic-Con is this week. I want to deliver a few posts relaying news coming from different sources during the weekend. I am checking the guest list to see who is relevant to my interests Neal Adams, author of post-televison Batman incarnations and the historic Green Lantern/Green Arrow series. Peter Bagge, author of […]
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links for 2010-07-20
Why we should clone a Neanderthal (tags: science) Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele | Amanda Palmer (tags: music fun) BBC News – Thousands of blogs shut down over 'terrorist material' BurstNet said Blogetery.com also posted "bomb-making instructions". The company said it acted after receiving "a notice of a […]
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links for 2010-07-19
Grades don't drop for college Facebook fiends . In a recent paper titled "Predictors and consequences of differentiated practices on social network sites," researchers found that heavy use of sites like Facebook and MySpace doesn't affect college students' grade point averages. In fact, it's the usual suspects such as gender, ethnic background, and parental education […]
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BBC Documentary — Prog Rock Britannia
YouTube – BBC Prog Rock Britannia (1 of 9). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt6uWZpIiMY&w=425&h=350] Now I have Procul Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" in my head. I always thought the original was sung by an African-American. After all, the music has a bit of African-American influence. It's funny how an image of the band that you see after you […]
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The Problem With.. Enrique Iglesias’ “I Like It” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With.. Enrique Iglesias’ “I Like It” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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YouTube – Obama Vs. Reagan: Who’s More Conservative?
YouTube – Obama Vs. Reagan: Who’s More Conservative?. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILg1-H6oNuM&w=425&h=350]
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links for 2010-07-17
RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales In a traditional loan, you invest the money and pay back out of your proceeds. But a record label deal is nothing like that at all. They make you a "loan" and then take the first 63% of any dollar you make, […]
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links for 2010-07-15
Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck As to this whole "unspoken agreement" business: the reason Lara Logan thinks this is because she's like pretty much every other "reputable" journalist in this country, in that she suffers from a profound confusion about who she's supposed to be working for. (tags: journalism media politics war)
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links for 2010-07-13
Study: Mixing School-age Kids And Computers Makes For Bad Stuff the professors report finding “strong evidence that children in households who won a voucher received significantly lower school grades in math, English and Romanian.” The principal positive effect on the students was improved computer skills (tags: media technology education) Citizen journalism not making up for […]
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links for 2010-07-10
South Korea: Keyboard Warriors Against Young Women The cyber-vigilantism (or bullying) in Korea, is practiced mostly by men. More reasonable voices online have analyzed this phenomenon as modern witch hunting performed by belligerent netizens, in reaction to Korean women gaining more power while men struggle under heaping social and economic pressure. The ‘girls' are everyday […]
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