Monthly Archives: October 2013

Gizoogle: Amusing tribute or racist caricature? – NSFW (part 4)

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — Leave a comment

For several weeks, I’ve been writing about the website Gizoogle, which ‘translates’ internet search results and webpages into language modeled after the hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg (see my first post for more details). Specifically, I’ve been looking into the question: Is…

If you can’t write, what rights do you really have?: Literacy and the exercising of personal rights

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — 7 Comments

This past spring, I suffered a relatively minor medical emergency having to have emergency surgery to remove my appendix. I recovered quickly and without complication thanks to the excellent medical staff who attended to me 24 hours a day for…

Gizoogle: Amusing tribute or racist caricature? – NSFW (part 3)

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Nic Subtirelu — 2 Comments

In my last couple of posts (here and here), I’ve been looking at the website Gizoogle, which basically translates the language of web content into language that is modeled after the hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg (see the first post for a more thorough…