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We've discussed lots of good examples in class recently. I'll upload info and links soon. In the meantime, I'm planning to talk about Lesbian Vampire Killers in Monday's 'Writing Techniques' class. An excellent example of syntactic ambiguity. Homework might be to find out exa...

We live in a world with information overload. Data, facts, statistics and definitive answers to specific questions are immediately available from search engines on the internet. But people want more than facts.  They want understanding.  They want meaning. They want context.  They want stories. C...

Mark and Kay Update March 4, 2009 http://www.markandkay.com Greetings in the Name of Jesus! What an amazing weekend we just had with our CarePoint youth leaders – all 35 of them! The theme was all about encountering God, and that’s what we all did – in a real and impacting way. Each of the you...

Read Zuck's post: Facebook | Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and Transparent Way.When Facebook changed their Terms of Use last week, making it look a lot more 'controlling', all hell broke loose.  Even in Switzerland (where I live), the national TV news reported on the up...

 Frank Cordelle's Century Project next week at UNCW has ruffled a few feathers, not that it was a cause of concern the first time this circus came to town in 2002. The University of North Carolina Wilmington will not publicly display nude photographs of underage girls in the upcoming exhib...

This video is a couple years old, but it makes a worthy point for those of us who sometimes get weary of hearing how foolish and vile we are when we are accused of these things by people who don’t even know us. Click here to view the embedded video....

"Dammit I’m Mad", A 224-Word Palindrome by Demetri Martin A palindrome is a word or a phrase which is the same when read from the start or the end, for example the word wow or racecar. You would imagine a palindrome is pretty hard to think up, maybe the odd word could be easy enough, and with a bi...

The newest project of Fireproof Ministries (the guys behind XXX Church) is The Strip Church. As in the Las Vegas strip (though Vegas and the other kind of strip kind of go hand in hand). And perhaps you know of some, but I've never heard of another church of its kind. As XXX Church ministered at por...

I don't know what else to call this really.You must have a look at this. A disgruntled designer has published the Pepsi band guidelines for the new logo online. They are truly hellish. There are almost no words to describe......