In August, 2002, I was blogging about ebook readers and email in teaching; how urban legends spread; tales of a plush Chthulu; no, the creator of D&D was not on drugs; a paperless library; Marilyn Monroe; liveblogging an epileptic seizure

In August, 2002, I was blogging about

• Educational technology spending that doesn’t benefit students; ebook readers that students don’t like; email as a tool in online course (all free at the time, but now behind the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s paywall)
• A prof spreading bad papers in order to catch plagiarists
• Expensive goose tracker leads reseachers to a hunter’s freezer
• Judges tosses British Telecom’s attempt to copyright the hyperlinks
• How urban legends spread through informational selection and emotional selection.
• MIT card-counters hacking Las Vegas
• A postmodern/postcolonial reading of the Monkey Island games
• Woman with email “C. O’Kane” rejected when applying for cop job.
• Games scholar Henry Jenkins ambushed on trash-talk TV show
• Police arrest hundreds of peaceful teens at K-Mart
• Hypercard “forgotten, but not gone”
• “No, I was not on drugs” — origin story from Dave “D&D” Anderson
• An illustrated Cthulu story featuring plushies.
• The allure of Pluto
• An Iowa college library goes paperless
• Marilyn Monroe Died 40 Years Ago Today
• Liveblogging an epileptic fit: “In these moments I kiss God.”