may be crappy, but its CEO claims to have patented the search engine. Kieren McCarthy.AltaVista Similar:Life in Code and Software (Open Humanities Press)This book explores the relationship betw…AcademiaMicrosoft lays off journalists to replace them with AIMicrosoft is laying off dozens of journa…BusinessThe Protagonist’s Best Friend Would Like to Stop Having to Shoehorn So Much Exposition…
One example of metacontent: “People often pass around news articles via e-mail. Some even do it compulsively, in part because it’s so easy…” NY Times (registration required) Similar:Today's Computer Displays Distort Pixel Art Designed for 1980s CRTsAs a kid, I remember studying my CRT dis…AestheticsStudents Speak Up: Trust Us With DevicesThe students who are, in…
Once again, The Onion gets it right. Clinton Not Expecting To Collect White House Security Deposit Surveying the White House’s walls and bathroom fixtures in preparation for move-out, President Clinton said Monday that he expects to forfeit his security deposit. “It’s just not worth it,” Clinton said. “I’d rather lose the $575 than have to…
“Once we accept something as ‘good,’ we often persist in doing it even when the result is clearly bad, while telling ourselves that we just haven’t done enough of it. We are subject to a defect of reason…” Dave Kopel —Who Killed George Washington? (National Review) Similar:Journalists prefer plain language.AestheticsToday's unexpected but welcome moments of grace…
Fascinating account of DirectTV’s war against hackers. Slashdot. Similar:Source: Wenner Declined Resignation from Rolling Stone Deputy EditorAccording to a source inside Rolling Sto…Current_EventsWhy liberal arts and the humanities are as important as engineeringWe learned that though a degree made a b…AcademiaMy laptop hard drive is full & my comfort-food shelf is emptyMy laptop drive is…
, a Notre Dame football player in the ’60s, argues that “The gap between college sports and the fundamental mission of higher education has widened significantly since that time.” Allen L. Sack Similar:A trend story about millennials, by The New York Times“When it comes down to it, life is reall…AmusingThe school mocked. I turtled.Draft: “As my…
The lessons I learned in just over an hour showed me how poor most Websites are and just how easy it would be for companies to perform their own usability tests to fix a lot of the problems.–David Lidsky, Healing the Web Update: Dec 2014. I originally blogged the above back in 2001. Lidsky’s brief article, written as the…
Top 10 Tips:Â Write a meaningful subject line; keep the message short and readable; avoid attachments; identify yourself; don’t flame (and more). Jessica Bauer. —Writing Effective E-Mail Similar:The Lost Art of Paste-UpWhen I started using a word processor as…AestheticsFirst Day in the Theatre for Twelfth Night (May 3-12) Daughter: (is sad her “first day in…
“A new era of newspaper experiments on the Internet, fueled in part by the fear that the Web will not generate profits, has begun.” (NY Times… free registration required.) —Rethinking Internet news Similar:Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated ‘freelancer’Journalists who can’t verify their sourc…Current_EventsWoah there, online tech site. Let's not set that bar…
“Fighting monsters and escaping from dungeons is a whole different world when you’re a woman. Men are oh-so-helpful when they’re not busy whistling at you.” Andy Patrizio cross-dresses as a half-naked elf babe. Wired.com Similar:News report from 1981 about the Internet.A human interest story about an early ex…Business'The Meatball: Not a Funny Rhyme' says Peter…
The American Library Association is none too pleased with a new federal law requiring Web filters in public schools and libraries, and has decided to sue. ZDNet —Filter THIS! Similar:Fascinating details in reports about Trump's Russian retractionWe’re all still reeling from Trump’s sta…Current_EventsItalian journalist to be beatified for helping Jews escape persecutionJournalist who helped saved…
“As any snack aficionado knows, crunch-tastic is the ultimate snack-chip adjective, outranking crunch-riffic, crunch-rageous, and even crunch-mongous.” The Onion. Similar:This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, P…AcademiaAn Academic Conference Where YOU are the Hero: Interactive Fiction in Print and OnlineI wish I had known about this in…
For textual detective Don Foster, “it’s certainly been interesting going to Shakespeare class, coming back to my office and talking with the FBI or the police department about some document in a criminal case.” Todd Winters. Similar:Comments on: A vane Osama bin Laden shown in new videos – CBS News Comments on: A vane Osama…
— updated to handle web sources Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button… you will get an individual MLA “Works Cited” entry, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor. Dennis G. Jerz —MLA-Style Bibliography Builder Similar:International Studies Association proposes to bar editors from blogging “I think it’s a…
Every damn fool knows that the phrase “masters of the universe” came from a 1980s TV show. So why did they put that anachronism in the Titanic movie script? After spending all that money on sets and special effects, did they have nothing left to hire a starving English grad student? And when Rose gives…