Techophilia and Social Progress

Just been trying a cool new social network that is done as a comic. You can use your own characters or pre-made characters to say your blog words or whatever. Love it! Bitstrips.com

I’m really disappointed that my Alma Mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has decided to continue banning video artist Wafaa Bilal’s show at the RPI arts dept. Giving various reasons, the administration, led by President Shirley Ann Jackson (whom I had hoped would be more progressive) has closed the show. It opened again at http://www.mediasanctuary.org/ but was closed after one day by the city of Troy citing some bylaw infraction. Clearly, they are trying to prevent Wafaa’s message getting out. Ironically, he is a pacifist. The only aspect that is good about this censorship is that it is at least generating discussion about Free Speech. But hey, wouldn’t you have thought that was already something we could agree on??