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Dead Tree Alert: Nightmare 2.0

In the current Time, some thoughts on the Web 2.0-ness of the Virginia Tech shooting and its aftermath. Half the length of my usual columns and thus, at least by that standard, twice as good. In the essay I liken Cho’s Quicktime manifesto to a deranged parody of a MySpace page, by which I don’t [...]

Elgin Marbles in (Just a Bit of) Motion?

Diverted by Virginia Tech, I didn’t get a chance to point out this development from a couple of days ago in the battle between Greece and the British Museum over the Elgin Marbles. In brief, in an interview with Bloomberg News, Neil MacGregor, Director of the Museum, said that “in principle” he would be willing [...]

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NBC Has Done the Math…

…and calculated the precise amount of time that it is appropriate to take up with its exclusive multimedia manifesto from Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech killer. From a press release just issued: Upon receiving the materials from Cho Seung-Hui, NBC News took careful consideration in determining how the information should be distributed. We did not [...]

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Bye-Bye-a, Sanjaya

It’s not like I have anything much to say. But I figured some of our redoubtable Sanjayaphobes could use a place to comment, gloat, dance amidst the lighted torches and pitchforks whilst swinging Sanjaya’s lifeless head by its long raven tresses, etc. Have at it. Anyway, now we get to look forward to a couple [...]

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Lostwatch: Thoughts for Your Penny

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched last night’s Lost yet, go and do it now… lest you change the future! ABC/ MARIO PEREZ To those of us who hold Charlie as our least favorite major Lost character, last night’s episode presents a conundrum. On the one hand, seeing him take an arrow in the throat [...]