Updated Media Bias Chart — Left/Center/Right, Facts/Analysis/Partisan/Propaganda (Ad Fontes)
Update — Media Bias Chart 10.0 All human endeavors are biased. Vanessa Otero’s chart, which places various news organizations on a 2D chart with a left/centrist/right X axis, and a quality/garbage vertical axis, is a good opportunity to remind ourselves that seeking out and relying on quality reporting from “the other side” is an important…
I had a blue checked shirt in my hand this morning, but she nailed the khaki pants.
My “Writing About Literature” Students Are Sampling Text Adventure Games
I’m having my students play Adam Cadre’s text-only, command-line interactive fiction game “9:05.” Over heard, from a student playing the early part of the game with a peer: “Did we just kill someone? We did something bad!”
“Look for the helpers” is good for distracting preschoolers from horrors they can’t change; we adults must do better.
“Look for the helpers” is only one part of how Fred Rogers recommended that parents help children deal with tragedy. Let your child know if you’re making a donation, going to a town meeting, writing a letter or e-mail of support, or taking some other action. It can help children to know that adults take…
Siblings gotta sib.
45m into a game against a player ranked 400pts higher than him. In a frilly shirt for the costume contest.
Can you tell the difference between factual and opinion statements?
I got a perfect score. How did you do on this Pew Research quiz? See below how your results for the factual and opinion statements compared with the 5,035 randomly sampled adults that took part in our national survey and review how you responded to each question. For more information, see the full report, “Distinguishing Between…
Second episode of “Electron Jones” paranormal detective audio series is up. waobaudiotheatre.org
Professoring. With an(other) apple pie cupcake.
I touched up and board-ified a presentation on “fake news” for Seton Hill’s “Celebration of Scholarship” event.
My student journos are meming it like bosses.
I saw this Friday night. Great fight choreography, lighting & staging, adaptation of the story.
Thoroughly enjoying Company.
Thoroughly enjoying Company.
8yo who found 1500-year-old artifact in a lake: “I had to give the sword to the local museum.”
I was crawling along the bottom of the lake on my arms and knees, looking for stones to skim, when my hand and knee felt something long and hard buried in the clay and sand. I pulled it out and saw that it was different from the sticks or rocks I usually find. One end…
What does the girl do with my iPad while I try to jump-start her mother’s car at a gas station?
https://youtu.be/tOYQc8vByoY
Sears Reshaped America, From Kenmore to Allstate
We just bought a new refrigerator from our local Sears. As a kid, I remember circling toys I wanted in the Christmas catalog. Pages of Legos, Matchbox cars, sleeping bags, remote-controlled cars. There might have been no Sears at all if Richard Sears, a 19th-century railway agent, hadn’t received an unwanted shipment of watches. He…
Now I can relax a bit. (But just a bit.)
I voice the role of Electron Jones in this audio detective series. The first episode was released today. I also made the posters with #Blender3D (my first project using the Cylces renderer). #design #drama #aesthetics
Making this illustration in Blender3D was almost as much fun as voicing the role of Electron Jones. This was my first project using the Cycles rendering engine. In the first episode of “Electron Jones,” the narrator describes looking down on a “levi-train” as a lunar transport takes off into the twilight sky in the futuristic…
Adding details to a clip-art silhouette, for a project that will be released in a day or two. #design #aesthetics #modding
An important but small detail in a Blender3D project I just finished is this trench-coated character. I started with a clip-art silhouette, but it looked pretty drab. Thanks to a little pixel-doctoring in The GIMP, I touched up the center image. The schlubby pant cuffs on this guy don’t fit the character, so I smoothed…