Lackey's Ramblin's http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/ DLackey's Miscellaneous Ramblin's en Copyright 2006 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:38:01 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Defining Hip For something that is by definition subjective, hip is astoundingly uniform across the population. It is the beatitude of Thelonious Monk at the piano, or the stoic brutality of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, performing songs of drugs and sadomasochism as a projector flashed Andy Warhol's films on their black turtlenecks. It is the flow of Jack Kerouac's "bop prosody" or Lenny Bruce's jazzed-out satire, or the rat-a-tat tattoo of James Ellroy's elevated pulp lit. Walt Whitman was hip; Lord Buckley was hip; Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is too hip for her own good. Hip is the way Miles Davis talked, dressed, played or just stood - and the way Bob Dylan, after his own style, followed in kind (though both men strayed into injudicious leather in the 1980s). The streets of Williamsburg in Brooklyn or Silver Lake in Los Angeles comprise a theme park in the key of hip. Its gaze is the knowing, raised eyebrow of Dawn Powell or Kim Gordon, bassist in the downtown band Sonic Youth - skeptical but not unkind.
From HIP: THE HISTORY, By John Leland
Newsweeek Sept 27, 2004

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/10/defining_hip_1.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/10/defining_hip_1.html Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:38:01 +0000 Defining Hip For something that is by definition subjective, hip is astoundingly uniform across the population. It is the beatitude of Thelonious Monk at the piano, or the stoic brutality of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, performing songs of drugs and sadomasochism as a projector flashed Andy Warhol's films on their black turtlenecks. It is the flow of Jack Kerouac's "bop prosody" or Lenny Bruce's jazzed-out satire, or the rat-a-tat tattoo of James Ellroy's elevated pulp lit. Walt Whitman was hip; Lord Buckley was hip; Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is too hip for her own good. Hip is the way Miles Davis talked, dressed, played or just stood - and the way Bob Dylan, after his own style, followed in kind (though both men strayed into injudicious leather in the 1980s). The streets of Williamsburg in Brooklyn or Silver Lake in Los Angeles comprise a theme park in the key of hip. Its gaze is the knowing, raised eyebrow of Dawn Powell or Kim Gordon, bassist in the downtown band Sonic Youth - skeptical but not unkind.
From HIP: THE HISTORY, By John Leland
Newsweeek Sept 27, 2004

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/10/defining_hip.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/10/defining_hip.html Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:37:58 +0000 iPod history Wired News: Straight Dope on the IPod's Birth

"Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like," Jobs told the Times. "That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/10/ipod_history.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/10/ipod_history.html Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:13:13 +0000 "You were expecting poetry?" Outsourcing Homework
By CHARLES McGRATH
NYTimes September 10, 2006
Examples:
Term Paper from Go-Essays
Essay from Term Paper Relief

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/09/you_were_expecting_poetry.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/09/you_were_expecting_poetry.html Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:20:59 +0000 Informal Learning The Other 80%

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/08/informal_learning.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/08/informal_learning.html Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:39:50 +0000 The Second Coming Dick Faegler closed his column Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the following:
"But unless we form a conspiracy of sanity, as a great Irish poet once said, the center cannot hold . . . "
alluding to:

The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of "Spiritus Mundi"
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/08/the_second_coming.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/08/the_second_coming.html Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:37:59 +0000 My Dutch Ancestors My Dutch Ancestors

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/my_dutch_ancestors.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/my_dutch_ancestors.html Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:46:43 +0000 Test image Download file

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/test_image.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/test_image.html Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:04:44 +0000 Weblogs in the Classroom Weblogs in the Classroom

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/weblogs_in_the_classroom.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/weblogs_in_the_classroom.html Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:06:25 +0000 Curious & Self-directed Learners Curious & Self-directed learners - Landmarks Wiki

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/curious_selfdirected_learners.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/07/curious_selfdirected_learners.html Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:02:43 +0000 Americans Who Tell the Truth

From Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly

Excerpts from Edward Abbey - The Unpublished Letters
Orion
July 2006

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From the New York Times Archives

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/05/jd_salinger.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/05/jd_salinger.html Mon, 08 May 2006 19:03:23 +0000 Federal Hocking - One of Reader's Digest's 100 Best Ahead of the Curve

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/04/federal_hocking_one_of_readers.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/04/federal_hocking_one_of_readers.html Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:24:58 +0000 Graduates Can't Master College Text Graduates Can't Master College Text
Education Week
March 1, 2006

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/03/graduates_cant_master_college.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/03/graduates_cant_master_college.html Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:45:26 +0000 The World is Flat Wired Interview with The World is Flat author Thomas L. Friedman

It's a Flat World, After All
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
April 3, 2005

]]> http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/03/the_world_is_flat_1.html http://www.dlackey.org/prodev/2006/03/the_world_is_flat_1.html Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:47:18 +0000