Think Piece: Fahrenheit 451

I have begun teaching Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451″ to my ninth grade high school students. It is interesting teaching this book realizing that all of the students in the room (from varying international backgrounds) have been raised with more advanced and “faster” communication technologies than I could have dreamed of when I was their age. [...]

Contemplating the “Indirect Path” (Execupundit)

Michael Wade over at Execupundit recently posted two provocative questions under the title, “Indirect Path.” His two questions are as follows, “Is happiness something that is captured or achieved?” and “Or is it more likely that happiness will climb our steps when we are not in active pursuit?” What I would like to do here [...]

10 (+) Articles for Improving Your Mental Hygiene (Vol. 1.0)

A list of ten articles dealing with topics such as: leading, following, awareness, mindfulness, constructive living, esoteric thought, greatness, media ecology, critical thinking, and existence. 1. Lee Thayer: There is Only One Way to Achieve Greatness 2. Mindfulness: Finding Our Own Paths: Entering Awareness 3. RAWilson: Robert Anton Wilson: Thoughts 4. Lee Thayer: Excerpt from [...]

A History of the Future of Narrative: Robert Coover (Vimeo)

The post prior to this one included a link to an hour long Robert Coover reading from 2005. After posting said article, in a moment of serendipitous joy, I found a forty minute long video of Robert Coover (thank you Google Blog Search). Information on this video, from the Vimeo source: “Novelist Robert Coover’s keynote [...]

Perception Change

Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their book “Teaching as a Subjective Activity,” present the following for our contemplation: “The ability to learn turns out to be a function of the extent to which one is capable of perception change (21).” What this means is that your learning something is dependent upon your capacity for [...]

Me.dium: A Real-Time Graphical Browsing Enivronment or “The Voyeuristic Web Experience”

Image from WikipediaIf yesterday I wrote about Zizek‘s interview regarding “hysteria and cyberspace,” today I began using a quite “hysterical” add-on called “Me.dium.” Generally speaking, “me.dium” provides you with the ability to graphically see your browsing activity. It also shows other me.dium users who are on the same website as you (and surrounding websites) and [...]