Archive for October, 2007

New Graphic Novel: Say “No” to Internet Piracy (Wired)

Posted by on October 23, 2007 * Comments(0)

Initially, I was skeptical about a comic strip deploring online file sharing. But the 18-page story does what the NCSC set out to do: explain the court system in an interesting way. I guarantee you I wouldn’t have been able to read a black and white document on this stuff but I whizzed through it […]

category: Comics, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

Superman Writers Won’t Return (IGN)

Posted by on October 23, 2007 * Comments(0)

Things aren’t looking super-duper for the next Superman movie, after Warner Bros. announced Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris – the writers from Superman Returns – don’t want to pen the follow-up. […] However, Singer’s future has now come into question too because of his long-running collaboration with the Dougherty and Harris – stretching back to […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

Whole-Grain Cereals May Lower Heart Failure Risk for Men (MedPage Today)

Posted by on October 23, 2007 * Comments(0)

During an average follow-up of 19.6 years, 1,018 new cases of heart failure occurred. These included 362 of 6,995 participants who did not eat any cereal, 237 of 4,987 who ate one serving or less a week, 230 of 5,227 who ate two to six servings a week, and 189 of 4,167 who ate seven […]

category: Health    

In Some Schools, iPods are Required Listening (New York Times)

Posted by on October 12, 2007 * Comments(0)

The Union City district, which has a $197 million annual budget, places a priority on bilingual classes because more than one-quarter of its students are learning basic English skills. District officials said the stakes are high; 4 of the district’s 12 schools have been identified as needing improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind […]

category: Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology    

Mr. Kuechenmeister Action Figure (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on October 9, 2007 * Comments(8)

[Here is something Elizabeth and I imagined as a product: Mr. Kuechenmeister as an action figure! How awesome might I be as a talking 6″ toy? We pictured a figure wearing dress clothes with a pull string that said one of three authentic sarcastic phrases such as: “Suck it up!” (motivational for 8:00am sections), “Deal […]

category: Humor, Life    

Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference 2007 (Discourse Chronicle)

Posted by on October 8, 2007 * Comments(5)

[Elizabeth and I returned from our first trip together last night and we both agreed that traveling together is best. We witnessed an unusually high number of vagrants or scammers in Little Rock, AR, but nevertheless, we still experienced a great vacation. Here are some highlights from our trip: Day 0 Elizabeth drove my 2000 […]

category: Life