Have you ever been in a ridiculous situation that you found funny or dangerous that then became a sublime experience?
Continue reading Tempting the Ridiculous and Achieving the Sublime.
April 2008 Archives
Barack Obama is in trouble.
Continue reading Betraying Barack: What Wright Has Wronged.
Can you believe this is Madonna?
Continue reading Has Madonna Broken Her Gender?.
Do you suffer from Email Apnea? Do you hold your breath while writing?
Continue reading Email Apnea.
As I finish staring into my navel -- my gaze turns outward -- and I am, once again, reflected back in your eyes while my head explodes, in super-slow motion, all over our brand new Pair Networks QuickServe Dedicated Server!
Continue reading Pair Networks QuickServe Dedicated Server Review.
Continue reading Earth Day in America.
In a recent comments flow for my -- Disposable Women: Slasher to Gash Her -- article, we wondered about the idea of crime being the last, and perhaps greatest, religion.
Continue reading Crime as the Last Religion.
UPDATE: April 23, 2008. This Urban Semiotic blog -- and all of David W. Boles' domains and blogs are now solely hosted by Pair Networks! We will give you more information soon. We are leaving this article online to protect the chain of understanding and we will update this space as necessary.
As you know, we recently moved this Urban Semiotic blog from WordPress to Movable Type 4.1 and we were hosted by the fine folks at Pair Networks. We are grateful for their previous love and support as we announce today yet another move of this blog - as well as RelationShaping.com and WordPunk.com - over to my pre-existing Media Temple 3.5 dv-Rage server and Movable Type Open Source 4.1.
As you know, we recently moved this Urban Semiotic blog from WordPress to Movable Type 4.1 and we were hosted by the fine folks at Pair Networks. We are grateful for their previous love and support as we announce today yet another move of this blog - as well as RelationShaping.com and WordPunk.com - over to my pre-existing Media Temple 3.5 dv-Rage server and Movable Type Open Source 4.1.
Continue reading Moving Movable Type 4 to Media Temple.
It is Tax Day in America. Do you owe any money or are you getting money back? Did you submit your tax return online or through paper mail? If you don't live in the USA do you feel you pay too many taxes -- or not enough -- for the benefits you receive?
Continue reading Taxing the Burden of Society.
The Apple science site is celebrating a 3D archaeological "find" detailing -- The Amulets of Seramon, including the Dung Beetle seen blow -- where the trinkets of an ancient priest of Thebes are now revealed for the first time in 3,000 years.
Continue reading Divining the Dung Beetle in the Dead.
It is my honor and delight to announce today the creation of a new blog I'm writing -- RelationShaping -- where we try to give form and meaning to the way technology re-frames and transforms the human body in a relational universe. Here's our new semiotic semantic logo that serves our mission: "The Spear of Technology Piercing the Body In Situ ->(" and we are grateful for your company.
Continue reading RelationShaping with David W. Boles.
Is the American woman an endangered species? Is she losing the good fight for equality in the workplace, on television and in our political hearts?
Continue reading Decline of the American Woman.
Nature reports this week there is confirmation of -- A Ruthless Gene -- proving our previously argued theory of a guilty ovum and a bad seed is, indeed, true.
Continue reading Rigging the Ruthless Gene.
The Olympic flame is trying to fire its way to Beijing, China for the 2008 games. It seems, however, there are some people who wish to douse the symbolic fire to protest the lack of human rights in China.
Continue reading Extinguishing the 2008 Olympic Beijing Flame.
UPDATE: April 23, 2008. This Urban Semiotic blog -- and all of David W. Boles' domains and blogs
are once again, and now solely, hosted by Pair Networks! We will continue to leave article online to protect the
chain of understanding and we will update this space as necessary.
(UPDATE 4/18/08: We are now using Movable Type Open Source 4.1 on Media Temple. Here is the story why.)
(UPDATE 4/18/08: We are now using Movable Type Open Source 4.1 on Media Temple. Here is the story why.)
Hello, and welcome to Urban Semiotic! This blog is now running -- racing, really -- on Movable Type 4.1 hosted by pair Networks!
This blog used to run on WordPress and then on WordPress.com and you may be wondering why we decided to move to the MT4 platform. We'll tell you the whole story now.
Continue reading Why Urban Semiotic Moved from WordPress to Movable Type.
Yesterday, we were haunted by the news that a group of third graders planned to kill their teacher. What's next? A gang of contract Killers trained in Kindergarten?
Continue reading Kindergarten Contract Killers.
I do not like April Fool's Day. I find it dull. The only worse day of the year is "Speak Like a Pirate Day" -- that I battle each year with "International Never Speak Like a Pirate Day" -- because one idiocy deserves another.
It's a pain to put up with everyone trying to put one over on you on April 1. Have you ever been played as the April Fool? If so, how did they "get" you?
It's a pain to put up with everyone trying to put one over on you on April 1. Have you ever been played as the April Fool? If so, how did they "get" you?
Continue reading Playing the April Fool.
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