Katie Hamilton, a U of I student who’s majoring in public policy is now the face of one of the great newspaper battles of recent memory. She’s been interning at the Chicago Tribune and before that she did press work for the Illinois Student Senate. Bravo!
Full disclosure: I’m a Cardinals fan so I’m not as invested in the Cubs as most people in this area are but even I think selling Wrigley is a bad idea.
After stumbling home from a long night last Friday, I turned on Vh1 and came across the music video for the Academy Award winning song, “Falling Slowly.” The song was written for the independent Irish film Once, and it’s sung by the movie’s two main characters, “Guy” (Glen Hansard) and “Girl” (Markéta Irglová). Hansard’s and Irglová’s harmonizing compounded by the song’s acoustically driven melody struck a chord with me, and I think it may do the same for you. Enjoy!
I just finished watching the rock musical, Across the Universe, and I’m very tired (look at the time I wrote this). However, its soundtrack was so good, I had to publicize it.
Below is a scene that takes place fairly early on in the movie. It captures two funerals; one is of a young boy who died in Detroit’s 12th Street riot, and the second is of a young man who died fighting in Vietnam. The scene is underpinned by an outstanding gospel version of the Beatle’s hit, “Let It Be.”
In order to illustrate the discrepancies between Jean Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development, my Educational Psychology TA showed my classmates and I a video of a second grade class learning simple addition and subtraction. However, while watching the video, it wasn’t Jean Piaget I was thinking of. The video reminded me of democracy in its simplest form, and how, despite all of the education we may receive, nothing can save us from the inner child within all of us.
I planned on posting two videos. Unfortunately, however, the embedded code for the Jean Piaget video was “disabled by request,” so I can only post a clip of the British Parliament’s House of Commons during one of their weekly “Questions for the Prime Minister” sessions. Please, please, I strongly advise that you click on this link to the Jean Piaget video before viewing the Parliament video. If you do, the parallels between the two clips may be surprising.
A friend of mine traveled from Long Beach to Hollywood on Sunday to be a part of the worldwide Scientology protest put on by members of “Anonymous,” a loose organization of online activists (not hackers or terrorists as some would lead you to believe…alright, some of them are hackers, but not all).
Anyway, below is one of the dozens of videos that were made on Sunday. You can see my friend at 0:36, holding up the Xenu.net sign. The Guy Fawkes mask suits him.
There’s a war going on, and no, it’s not the one against terror. On January 16th, a legion of Internet goers, rallying under the code name “Anonymous,” posted a decree declaring a war on the the Church of Scientology. Below is the video they posted.
If you want to get an in-depth look at the intentions of “Anonymous,” check out this link.
Even though I was all of 14 months old at the time, today marks the 20 year anniversary of the Max Headroom pirating incident. Apparently, somebody managed to hijack the signal of WGN for a few minutes and broadcast this creepy tape. Whoever did it has not and probably will not be found.