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Canadian Philosophical Association (Yours Truly is now "Special Advisor to the Executive on Communications" having served previously as Associate Web Editor for two years, previous to that, as Web Editor for five years) |
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Society for Philosophy and Technology (Yours Truly is a member) |
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Canadian Political Science Association |
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Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science |
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Art and Aesthetics |
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Æ Journal of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics |
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American Society for Aesthetics: Aesthetics On-line |
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Canadian Society for Aesthetics (Yours Truly is a member) |
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Privacy and Information Technology |
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Canadian Internet Law Resource Page |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation |
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Electronic Frontier Canada |
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Electronic Privacy Information Center |
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SHOT publishes the on-line academic journal Technology and Culture. |
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The Center for Democracy and Technology |
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Propaganda and Technology Hype |
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A Palace of Progress The Smithsonian Press, in association with the National Museum of American History |
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Chinese Propaganda Poster Page Stefan R. Landsberger, International Institute of Social History, Leiden University |
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CONELRAD: All Things Atomic CONELRAD.com Described by the New York Times as an "eerie, creepy look at cold war culture." A collection of pop culture sources, civil defense and public service announcements from the 1950s and 1960s. |
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German Propaganda Archive Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College |
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Jayne Loader's Public Shelter Featuring materials from The Atomic Café (1982) |
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PR Watch describes itself as offering "Public Interest Reporting on the PR/Public Affairs Industry." What it in fact provides is often a bit more partisan than that phrase would suggest and it is often delivered with a kind of sophomoric smugness/cuteness à la Michael Moore (make of that what you will). Still, I like it. Somebody has to keep tabs on the PR industry and if that was left up to the US Public Affairs Council or the Canadian Public Relations Society, the whole lot of them would invariably come off looking like a bunch of angels. |
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The Actor Network Resource Science Studies Centre, Lancaster University That's the social theory, BTW. Nothing to do with drama. |
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one has yet proposed a scheme for students to evaluate teachers
that hasn't resulted in complaints from someone. At most Canadian
universities, students at least occasionally have an opportunity
to evaluate their professors by means of anonymous term-end questionnaires.
Sometimes, for some purposes (e.g. tenure and
promotion), these official surveys do actually carry some small
amount of weight. And, for just that reason, faculty associations
typically insist on rules governing how the results of such questionnaires can be used. So,
owing to such rules, evaluation results are almost never made public
as a matter of course, even as aggregate data (U. Ottawa, I'm told,
is an exception). And, even when aggregate data is made public,
student comments are virtually never included (since they are anonymous
and therefore cannot be effectively challenged or rebutted.) That's
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Alter-Net.org Independent Media Institute Think of it as what to reach for when you can't find your copy of the Utne Reader. Seriously though, for all its occasional Birkenstocks-and-wheat-germ ambiance, there is research and reporting here that needs to be done and which you will find nowhere else. |
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How Stuff Works Marshall Brain, HowStuffWorks Inc. Every wondered how, say, an automatic transmission works? How about dry cleaning? Or jet engines? How Stuff Works provides concise, reasonably (but not excessively) detailed information, intelligently presented and carefully edited with lots of links to additional information. Totally cool. One of my all-time favourite sites. |
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Certainly the best online encyclopedia in philosophy. Though not, IMO, quite as good as some people seem to think, especially for topics in continental philosophy, value theory or political philosophy. Since the SEP is a dynamic reference work , however, there is good reason to hope that over time these deficiencies will be rectified. |
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A cheesy tribute to the culture of disposable artifacts. What mainly surprises me, paradoxically, is precisely how banal most of the examples are -- 20 plus years of pre-packaged, portion-controlled everything and this is the most variation you can find. |
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A logical extension of the foregoing. More interesting to investigate, perhaps, but to my taste it lacks the Condiment Packet Museum's purity of concept (all sorts of things end up counting as moist towelettes, e.g.) |
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Highly recommended if, like me, you occasionally crave something just plain silly (in a pleasant, Saturday morning cartoons sort of way). There is stuff worth checking out throughout the site but by far the best part, IMO, is Strong Bad Email. |
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