Strange Apples
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Theoryheads and Postmodernism
I’ve added a new page – “About VirusHead.” There is a short explanation of why the blog is named VirusHead. There is also a long rambling section about theoryheads and postmodernism (only for the intensely curious). I’ve also added a page dedicated to Jehovah’s Witnesses issues, news and resources. In addition to page links (to bits of the main VirusHead site), the page lists all the titles of the blog posts on this topic, so that you don’t have to…
Media Vocabulary Guidelines Needed
When you see it, protest. I wrote to Brad Kalbfeld (Deputy Director, Managing Editor, a member of the AP senior management team) to recommend vocabulary guidelines: “I am writing to you to request that you draw up some vocabulary guidelines for the Associated Press. As an objective reporting service, you surely cannot have missed the fact that vocabulary choices resonate. In the political climate of the United States at this time, I think it is important that you consider very…
419 Nigerian Email Scam
The people who respond to these propositions are easy marks for these con games. What I like about the Salon article is that the focus is on the language. Douglas Cruickshank writes that he has fallen for these emails, “not for the scam part, but for the writing, the plots (fragmented as they are), the characters…