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Entries from January 2009

Women, culture, and feet

July 12th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m currently reading the novel, The Binding Chair (or A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society), by Kathryn Harrison. While the book has received a healthy dose of criticism in regards to its fragmented narrative structure, which seems to cause some readers to trip, I personally think it reflects the novel’s content-that of two women [...]

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Tags: Articles, Books, and Essays · Culture

SL Spaces and Places

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

SLED (Second Life Educator’s discussion) recently had a few discussion posts about architecture and space within Second Life that I found to be interesting. Indeed, why are we creating spaces within SL that almost always mimic RL? But even when they utilize really unusual colors and lines within the space, you still find very typically [...]

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Tags: Second Life

Kentucky musings

July 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Well, we’re back in Chicago! The lack of internet access all the way up in the cabin (and practically everywhere else we went in the mountains of Kentucky) kept me from being able to blog while there. But here are some highlights of the trip. We stayed in this beautiful cabin called Echo Falls Cabin. [...]

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Tags: 1st Life