Monthly Archives: May 2007

Sunday Link Giving

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 27, 2007

Glennia Campbell — Glennia reports from Sylvia Paull’s Cybersalon. Cybersalon is ongoing in Tom Shugart’s neighborhood. He should drop in. This week Tom treated us to a raft of links to many of his favorite bloggers’ initial posts, a list that he lifted (with due credit) from Jeneane! Jeneane had a stressful week with major [...]

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Belated Birthday Greetings!

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 26, 2007

Happy birthday Tamarika!  You and Bob Dylan seem to share the same natal day. [tags]tamar jacobson; robert zimmerman[/tags]

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Matrullo on JSTOR

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2007

Certain recent posts here at IMproPRieTies might seem rather random. What could Everything is Miscellaneous, JSTOR, the White House Press Corps and the Extraordinary and Plenipotent Roland E. Arnall possibly have in common? I’m not sure. All I know is, after reading David Weinberger’s book, and writing a bit about it, a certain stimulus deriving [...]

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monetiZing gonZo boZos

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 24, 2007

An Earnestine McCoin adventure… This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others. May [...]

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Enemies of our enemies are what?

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 24, 2007

“We’re in the business of creating… sectarian violence.” –Seymour Hersh – look, the American role is very simple. Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, has been very articulate about it. We’re in the business now of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia, against the Shia in Iran, against the Shia in Lebanon, [...]

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Scenario Paintball…

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 23, 2007

Ben has a new piece in Wired 15.06… The Totally Awesome, Highly Ridiculous World of Scenario Paintball It’s about… it’s about… I dunno. I guess it’s about World of Warcraft as a splatter sport.

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Arrington Barrington

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 22, 2007

Stuart Woods has written a fun series of detective novels about an upper class private eye named Stone Barrington. Stone has an off-again on-again relationship with the lovely Arrington. A chief impediment to their committed love is the fact that if they married and she took his name, she would be Arrington Barrington. That really [...]

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Hyderabad Mosque

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 22, 2007

On Friday seven people died in a mosque bombing in Hyderabad.  During the last year there have been three major bombings of mosques in India.  Who did it?  Who benefits from sectarian strife?  Throwing India off balance by setting muslim against muslim and hindu against muslim smacks of “great game” intentionality. Who benefits?

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