Via PhotographyBlog, World Press International has announced its photograph of the year for the year 2007, Tim Hetherington, UK, for Vanity Fair, of an American soldier resting at bunker, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, 16 September. Jury chairman Gary Knight says that "This image represents the exhaustion of a man – and the exhaustion of a…
Some folks at Viz are having an interesting discussion about Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” video which I blogged about below. Melanie also points to this hilarious (and somewhat frightening) parody in which the performers try to find three words from John McCain that can inspire as much as Obama’s “Yes we can”:
Marshall at Read/Write Web has a useful new post “Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche.” The real discovery for me has been the Ask.com Blog Search. For the last hour I’ve been looking at the results of a search for “education“—the link to Weblogs in Higher Education was worth the…
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, "Playing God in the Garden" (which I used to give to my first year writing students when I was at Rutgers and now give to my Engineering writing students here at Rowan), and others, talking about the ecological implications and benefits of considering nature from the point…