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Re: Timing Effects in "Many Worlds Mario"

"A Best-of-All-Possible-Worlds Recording"

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Monday, May 10, 2010 — 3:57 pm

Thanks, Christopher, for starting off the week with this interesting post. As I watched the compression of the Mario's 134 attempts to make it through the level, it occurred to me that this recording tool also illustrates a common critique leveled a ...

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Mourning and Monitoring

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Eric LeMay Ohio University

May 11, 2010

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possibilities for mourning. I was surprised the other day because I had never moved on, never moored the ... “alters,” rather than “limits” the possibilities for mourning, because mourning will certainly not disappear ... today’s video—everyday images from a 24 hour webcam that monitors Ground Zero every day—as a possible form ...

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Re: Mourning and Monitoring

Dead Time

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Christopher Hagenah UC Santa Barbara

Tuesday, May 11, 2010 — 11:44 pm

"alteration" in the possibilities for mourning. It's actually quite difficult to parse lived time from ...

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Women and Comedy: An Invisible Tradition

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Lydia Perovic writer

May 12, 2010

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Women and Comedy: An Invisible Tradition women theatre television stand-up gender film comedy Curator's Note Are women less capable of humour than men? The answer is not a simple one. The comparative lack of women in comedic traditions in theatre, s ...

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Re: Women and Comedy

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Carnelia Gipson Old Dominion University

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 — 3:01 pm

a side note, the website http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/ displays some interesting forms of female ...

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"And I Talk Pretty Too": Race, Dialect and the Beauty Myth.

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Carnelia Gipson Old Dominion University

May 14, 2010

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episode, Angelea, the bi-racial beauty from the wrong side of the tracks, finds herself at odds with the ...

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The Inadequately Violent State?

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Samir Dayal Bentley University

May 17, 2010

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side of life. In the case of this ordinary man-turned-terrorist, stupidity is certainly a plea on the ... side of life but a plea enacted by a threat against it, against other ordinary citizens of India. It ... character, possibly a conceit borrowed from Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988), and the "stupidity" of ...

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Following the Tiger Trail: The Public Trial of Tiger Woods

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Brandeise Monk-Payton Brown University

May 19, 2010

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Following the Tiger Trail: The Public Trial of Tiger Woods Tiger Woods tabloid scandal Nike celebrity Curator's Note Over the past few months, the Tiger Woods sex scandal has reached new heights of media frenzy in the amount of public scrutiny surrou ...

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