Similar:It will be harder to leave Facebook than it was to leave Twitter It was not that hard to leave Twitter….CybercultureChurning Out More Non-profit Arts PromosAs part of my volunteer work for a local…AestheticsParty Like a Jerz My dad just made us root beer floats.PersonalFriend I hadn't seen for about 20 years delivers a vintage nerdy…
Similar:Facebook, Now You Remind Me of a Half-Drunk Cocktail Party SchmoozerLast week, Facebook asked me what sports…BusinessCelebration of Writing Fall 2019PersonalTouch Me Now: York Plays 2025A cast of hundreds participated in a pub…AcademiaProper commenting is an important part of coding any project, especially in an educational…Proper commenting is an important part o…PersonalNarrating "A Christmas Carol" for…
Similar:Quoth the ramen, "Eat some more!"PersonalProfessor Sees Parallels Between Things, Other Things”By drawing parallels between things and…AcademiaTwitter is testing a tool for reporting fake & offensive contentIt’s risky to get your news from a socia…Current_EventsThe girl as the Spanish Soloist in @laurelballettheater & @westmorelandsymphony The Nutcra…AestheticsMythbusting UX design: 7 misconceptions about user experiencePerhaps the most…
Context matters. Good journalists should go out of their way to avoid creating a mistaken impression. Fox News apologized Tuesday after receiving a torrent of criticism over the network’s use of photos of various players for the Philadelphia Eagles kneeling in prayer, creating the misleading impression that they were demonstrating during the national anthem. The…
He could have built, you know, a junkyard mechanic droid, or a general manual labor droid, or a Bitcoin-mining droid, or a freedom-fighter droid? No, he builds a fussy butler. The silliness of this just hit me. Similar:Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes CourseSuddenly, something that had been unthin…AcademiaA Matter of Time…
Similar:In July 1999, I was blogging about Dante's ashes, Apollo 11, gender-neutral language, and …In July, 1999, I was blogging about: …CulturePict Classic Theatre Romeo and Juliet. PersonalAdded a splash of color to this section of a #neovictorian #steampunk control panel (for m…AestheticsPICT's production of Jane Eyre has its first preview tonight.PersonalCheerful scene from @pictclassictheatre Jane…
Similar:SCUBA Diving at the PoolBecause a beautiful sunny day at the poo…CultureOne deck below the bridge, the chief engineer coordinates with his technical heads here at…Aesthetics'Little Mermaid' brings new music to the Andersen fairy tale – Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThe story line is similar to the Disney-…Current_EventsMaking sidewalks to go with the buildings. Tedious but will save…
This story offers evidence to challenge the stereotype that under employed humanities majors are stuck working in service jobs years after graduation. STEM jobs are indeed the most marketable, but a recent study found that after five years, business, health professions, education and psychology make up far more of the underemployed graduates than English or…
Facebook is discontinuing the “trending” list. After the employees hired by Facebook to curate the trending news items were found to bury news they didn’t like, Facebook fired them all and tried to automate the process. If it matters to you whether their bias was liberal or conservative you can look it up, but my…
As an American studying in Toronto during the Clinton administration, I encountered some non-negligible anti-American bias. I learned to pronounce the last letter of the alphabet “zed” when I was spelling my name. When I sang “ahh-men” in a church choir, the music director stopped the rehearsal to express his surprise that I hadn’t sung…
Don’t blame “the media” for using this photo, often identified as immigrant children separated from their parents and placed in a cage. I saw this image in my social media feed numerous times over the weekend; it wasn’t journalists who kept sharing it, it was random people (and probably a non-trivial number of bots) on…
Similar:Leftovers from the food my colleagues brought in to bribe/reward those few students who sh… Leftovers from the food my colleagues b…AcademiaTake a look at the moon tonight!I wish I had the time or energy to get o…AestheticsThese chairs were cheap, but it really annoys me how the design collects water.PersonalThe Big Boy GraveyardOn road…
Similar:August Wilson Trifecta (Two Trains, Ma Rainey and Fences on the same day)Fences was performed in the backyard of …CultureHaven (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 10) When a low-stakes rom-com shows Troi's beau and …Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…MediaSnow White: The Musical Opens Fridayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIRCoHoN…AestheticsAnonymous comment cards from student journalists at the end of the…
Similar:Happy Sweet Sixteen, Carolyn!The girl spent her birthday weekend open…PersonalMaking progress.PersonalPrime Stage Theatre to end 2018-2019 season with Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night, May 3–1…2019 Pittsburgh Public Theater Shakespea…Culture"The Nightmare of Prince Prezelsky"Leigh, Peter, Carolyn and I had fun reco…AmusingMany of these individual steampunk control panel elements are repeated, but I've arranged …AestheticsStudents whom I haven't…
This is really noteworthy. Today the President of the United States denied a statement that was issued in the White House by one of his own officials, claiming that the official does not exist and that the New York Times invented the source. This is not about a reporter making an error, or selectively quoting…
In the Washington Post, Greg Sargent analyzes a pattern in Trump’s very effective rhetoric. As you’ll recall, after Trump made his “animals” comment, his defenders — and Trump himself — erupted in anger at news organizations that had not explained that it had come amid a discussion of MS-13 members. It’s not clear from the…
NRATV host Collins Idehen Jr (who goes by the name Colion Noir) made what appeared to be a serious call for legislation to restrict the First Amendment — then said he wanted people who were horrified by that call to know “That’s the same feeling gun owners get when they hear people say the same…
I just noticed an option for viewing a Facebook timeline in “grid” mode. For the past several years I have been trying to add a square image to all my blog posts, and the style I created for my blog uses these square images (in different ways based on the width of the user’s screen).…
Am I wise now? At an event for encouraging graduate student research, a 26yo grad student said she had just heard the term “impostor syndrome,” and she asked how long she’d have to be in the profession before she got over her fears that she was just faking it and didn’t belong. I looked her…
Similar:The girl will be performing as the Dew Drop Fairy in the Dec 8 evening performance of The …AestheticsMy 4Cs StoryI chaired a session on Friday, and gave …AcademiaStage Right spreads the gospel of music with 'Godspell'The Tribune-Review is very dependable in…Current_EventsAnd to think… I had just decided to retire this meme because the last…