I was surprised by Sin City. I thought I would be bored by the story but enjoy the visuals. After all, so much had been made about how brilliantly (and literally) Rodriguez had adapted the imagery of Frank Miller’s comic book to the screen. My experience was the opposite: I enjoyed the narrative, which (despite [...]
In the comments to a post I wrote about various devices designed to get you out of bed in the morning, Tim May directed my attention to the Sleeptracker Alarm Watch. The SLEEPTRACKER watch is unique in that while it tells you the time and has a built-in alarm like every other digital watch, this [...]
A recent compendium and analysis of U.S. labor market statistics, the State of Working America, has some interesting data that is relevant to the passing of the new bankruptcy law. Bush is eager to promote the bill as good for poor people, but the statistics show a society divided between those who own assets and [...]
Last year, when I was offered the opportunity to teach a course on anthropology and photography at Haverford College, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with Flickr. I even wrote to the folks at Flickr to see if they would offer free “pro” accounts to my class for the semester. They politely declined. [...]
Two protests, two Chinas, each explaining the other. And yet, I have to admit being somewhat overwhelmed and baffled by the whole thing. So please excuse the fragmented nature of this post. First, the anti-Japanese protest in Shanghai: Possibly as many as 30,000 people were marching through the streets of Shanghai today. Some of them [...]