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By Вen Li
I don’t care that a drunk on some plane kicked down a cockpit door a week ago. Really. Giving "breaking news" coverage to every inconsequential airplane-related incident wastes not only my time, but that of everyone else who tuned in for real news that matters.The time has come to move beyond our collective obsession with… Continue reading Terrorphilia
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Rarely has a Political Science class ever received so much attention.On Fri., Jan. 18, Federal Con-servative Party leader Joe Clark addressed over 200 students and faculty who crowded into a POLI 225 classroom. Clark focused his 40 minute speech on the House of Commons and the accountability of its members in the wake of recent… Continue reading Learning from the wiliest
By Вen Li
Why do we need over 120 channels of mindless drivel on digital cable? With the exception of a few gems like the BBC, some movie channels and Discovery, most of the "specialty" channels are filled with low-quality crap that even the Vision network wouldn’t touch. The shows are better suited to fulfill CanCon requirements than… Continue reading A million channels and nothing on
By Вen Li
It isn’t difficult to make the label ‘mindless drivel’ stick to much television content, but mindless moments are vital to our survival and if we get 120 channels of it instead of three, we are better off. Decline-of-civilization alarmists blame television for dumbing down our culture, pointing to our herd-like fixation as evidence of our… Continue reading A million channels and nothing on
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Last week, an esteemed colleague of mine invoked the names Richelieu and Tremblay while drawing an analogy to his current situation. I proclaimed rather condescendingly that "I’m a science major," implying that it was valid excuse for my ignorance, allowing my degree program speak for what I don’t know rather than what I do. Effectively,… Continue reading The beauty that lies in balance
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I could try to convince you to see this film by writing about lesbians, football, politics, casual sex and teens sleeping with each other, but I won’t. You can watch that for yourselves. I could say it’s good because the film is about socialism, diplomacy, alliances, the fall of the Soviet Empire and the dictatorship… Continue reading Marxist socialism in Stockholm
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While the movie Amélie deserves and has received accolades, Yann Tiersen’s soundtrack should not.Beginning as a mediocre sampling of Western-European sounds typical of the French composer’s work, the tracks quickly blend into four amorphous blobs of audio. Only three tracks, two of which were composed by others–distinguish themselves by having the variety lacking on the… Continue reading Amelie
By Вen Li
by Вen Li 09.13.2001 Athabasca University was one of the pioneers of distance education in Canada. Today, AU is a leader in the online and distance education field. As such, they have a unique perspective on the development of online learning from distance education. Athabasca takes after the British Open University’s distance learning model established… Continue reading We live, die and learn on the web
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Every day in the bowels of Old MacEwan Hall, teams of monsters, some human, some grotesque, and some bearing a resemblance to Rosie O’Donnell, battle to see who will live and who shall die. For those who are resurrected, the battles never truly end. That was the case with the University of Calgary’s own Butros… Continue reading Magical split decision
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To most people outside the computer world, the word “Linux” means little. Many think that Linux is a difficult-to-use, geeks-only operating system, perhaps with some connection to the Internet–but this isn’t entirely the case. Although 31 per cent of Internet servers used Linux in 2000, most Internet users are barely aware that it exists.