The Banana Peel Project

I love this video on a couple of levels. First, it’s hilarious if you’ve ever seen five minutes of 24. It really calls attention to the fabricated, melodramatic tension that makes it such a successful show. Second, it’s a great example of how our culture treats history. We laugh at lines […]

Here’s Michael Wesch’s short video about the “information revolution.” It’s a Quentin Fiore-style collage piece about the changing role of information in society. It’s pretty clever in a lot of ways. (The video seems to be a bit slow to load, but hopefully it’s a temporary problem that will work itself out.)

When I learned about the American Psychological Association’s decision to formally condemn the Bush administration’s treatment of war prisoners, I smiled. A good day for psychology, I thought.
Unfortunately, the feeling was short-lived. Now, it seems that some psychiatrists at Tel Aviv University have decided that “Internet addiction” is a pathological condition that, like […]