The penultimate speaker in KLRU's 2007 Spark Series is the ever-fascinating Douglas Rushkoff, a hugely prolific author, teacher, and documentarian who's written extensively on new media, pop culture, religion, and technology as it pertains to society in general. Rushkoff first exposed the world to the emerging cyberculture phenomenon with his 1994 book, Cyberia, and has since published at least ten best-selling books, including Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism (2003) and Media Virus: Hidden......

While you sit on the couch tonight, toasting democracy, check out these resources to pass the time. Also, feel free to use the comment section as an open-thread all night long. Your friends tell you they voted? Don't trust them? Check on them. We're surprised this is even legal! | link Can't wait for Rather or Blitzer to let you know what's going? The Secretary of State lets us watch the real-time election results roll......

Soon, we'll be able to add the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and all the good they've done this country to the list of progressive measures our country has taken over the last 100 years, a list that already includes Social Security, the Kyoto treaty, and innumerous social and governmental practices, that the Bush administration has attempted to dismantle. In what seems to us like an effort to silence all dissenting press, even if that......