Tuesday February 9, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday February 9, 2010)
(1)- COOL VANCOUVER VIDEO! -- "Vancouver City" music video is an artistic collaboration between Innerlife Project and TimeLapseHD. Linda Ganzini's beautiful and haunting vocals blend with the unique musical style of Serge Chubinski-Orlov.

(2)- DANCE RULES --Administrators at a Wisconsin high school are aiming to curb risque moves at an upcoming school dance. To assure that Union Grove High School students do not get too footloose, school brass have issued official dance rules.

(3)- JIHADI TAPES -- Flagg Miller, of the U. of California at Davis, has listened to hundreds of audio tapes that once belonged to Osama bin Laden. It's the everyday conversations among jihadis that he finds the most interesting.

(4)- RIP – Louis Auchincloss published more than 60 books of fiction, biography and literary criticism and was best known for his dozens and dozens of novels about what he called the “comfortable” world, of New York City.

(5)- GREAT TEACHERS -- For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But we are finding out...

(6)- BOOK-- Said to exemplify dramatic changes that are occurring in children’s cultural lives as a result of web technology, this book has been touted for its appeal to children known as “cyberkids,” “digital youth,” and the “net generation.”

(7)- EXAMINING -- In the 1970s and 1980s, Derrida, who died six years ago, was the most important and polarizing figure in the humanities in America. His brand of thought, deconstruction, dominated classrooms, conferences, articles, and books.

(8)- ASSAULTING ARENDT -- Reputations are too frequently made when pygmies stand on the shoulders of giants and when iconic and sometimes heroic figures are symbolically cut down to size.

(9)- DEATH OF A QUEEN -- The death of the Queen was the greatest challenge the colony had faced since the days of its founding. Yet the workers could not take action until they were certain that the Queen was dead.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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