NASDAQ.com throws shade via Reuters: Snapchat is popular among people under 30 who enjoy applying bunny faces and vomiting rainbows onto their selfies, but man yon Wall Street are critical of its high valuation, slowing user growth and lack of profitability. Joel Randewich, NASDAQ.com Similar:Far-Right Twitter Trolls Won’t Admit They Were Wrong About Killing of…
Free speech is valuable. It’s dangerous to set the precedent that it’s okay to censor speech as long as you side with the censor and against the position being silenced. A New Jersey school district has suspended a teacher after yearbook photos of two high school students were altered to remove President Donald Trump’s name…
Similar:Another section of a #steampunk control panel. Useful for a cutaway shot after a character…AestheticsWhat a great time everyone had at the "Cabbies."CultureToday’s adulting was brought to you by a failed motor vehicle inspection. #notacarguy #win…The car shop wanted to charge over $300….ModdingProfessoring. With an(other) apple pie cupcake.I touched up and board-ified a presentat…AcademiaThe School…
Similar:Preteen Acting Scene Version 2 – YouTubeI had a free evening and a copy of Blend…DramaThe reception line begins. Grad2018Personal"I don't view Shakespeare's work as intimidating anymore." — midterm reflection from coll… “It has made me more confident in my…AcademiaI'm honestly not sure where that came from.For my summer project, teaching myself t…AestheticsUnion siege…
Similar:She was a musical ingenue Sunday, filmed a slasher movie past midnight Monday, and was pre…AcademiaOperation War DiaryOne hundred years ago today, Britain dec…CultureCarolyn featured on Steel City News for The Nutcracker The credit at 0:30 should read “Caro…AestheticsThe Wire (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 22) While examining an ill Garak, Bash… Rewatching ST:DS9…
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. Best case scenario? A virtual reality game that is either based around Portal or Half-Life, or unites the franchises into one experience. Valve has invested heavily in VR and clearly values the technology as an entertainment phenomenon – the Portal demo for Vive is one of the…
Similar:Set design for a virtual production of R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). Post-apocalypti… AestheticsSuch A Good Feeling: The Affectionate Documentary 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'My son and I saw “Won’t You Be Ny Neighb…CultureMe loving my birthday truck, c. 1971. I adored this truck, and spellin…DesignUnnatural Selection (ST:TNG Rewatch Season 2, Episode 7)Rewatching Star Trek:…
Similar:from “The Poet” by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe poets made all the words, and theref…AestheticsJournalists play a vital role in a democracy. That sometimes includes serving the public b…PersonalBilbo's party sociological infographic.Aestheticslittle drops — Why Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind …Very insightful…. A reminder that even…AestheticsThe super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save…
MTV recently ditched the “Best Actor/Actress” awards in favor of “Best Actor,” which suggests the gender-specific term “actress” is less popular among MTV’s target audience. I added that detail, fixed some broken links, and updated the graphic. See Writing Tips: Gender Neutral Language. Similar:What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong [T]o improve as writers, student…AcademiaCarnegie…
With the money I saved by working on the car (watching a lot of YouTube tutorials) I bought a new midrange zoom, in the hopes I won’t miss shots by swapping lenses. And now my camera bag won’t quite zip shut. #ConspicuousConsumption Similar:Check the source before you share that video that confirms your beliefs or…
Similar:My crowd simulation handles 2000 capsule NPCs at 130fps. I’m really pushing my coding skil…AestheticsMicrosoft lays off journalists to replace them with AIMicrosoft is laying off dozens of journa…BusinessChildren of Eden (Stage Right, April 2014)My wife and I in Biblical costumes for C…CultureOne in a Billion: email tips – Google Search In the grand…
Similar:Jerry Lewis’s Costars Speak Out: “He Grabbed Me. He Began to Fondle Me. I Was Dumbstruck”As a kid I watched Jerry Lewis movies wh…Culture80 Days: "1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the…I stayed up way too late last night play…CybercultureThe cultural implications of the myth that English majors end…
While doing some spring cleaning around my computer desk at home, I noticed that there are scores of old PC games that are still stacked up within arm’s reach, even though I no longer even use a computer with an optical drive at that workstation. But these are games that have sentimental value for my…
Oppressors deny their own agency and dehumanize their victims by using the passive voice. I want my students to recognize this deliberate strategy, and to look for hidden actors and dehumanized recpients of injustice. (I try to teach about active and passive verbs in a more lighthearted way, but I only bothered to photograph and…
The voice of Wallace has died. The silly, plummy, character-driven steampunk/sitcom hybrid Wallace & Gromit films were a big influence on the tone of the “Captain Gearhart and the Magnificent Blimpship” steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell the kids. Peter Sallis has died at the age of 96, his agents have announced.The actor…
The First Amendment of the constitution protects the incoming students’ right to say whatever they like, even if Harvard doesn’t like it. And, as a private institution that is not regulated by the First Amendment, Harvard has the right to kick out incoming students unwise enough to exercise their rights in this manner. (The government…
Just as comedians generally don’t laugh at their own jokes, Shakespeare doesn’t call too much attention to his own linguistic cleverness, which is one reason his work rewards close scrutiny. It’s not that he was being deliberately obscure or flowery — though some of his obsequious characters definitely exhibit such speech patterns. One line of…
Similar:Those mean fake news people at the Washington Post are at it again, this time publishing a…Those mean fake news people at the Washi…CultureLessons (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 19) Picard and a new officer bond over …Rewatching ST:TNG When Picard is up i…AestheticsProgress on a customizable "[E] to Activate" system (Visual Scripting, Unity3D)https://youtube.com/shorts/-X8eBT5QoPY…
Similar:Celebration of Writing Fall 2025. Students present their research for their upcoming term …PersonalCarolyn performed as Ariel yesterday in the New Renaissance Theatre Company's production o… Carolyn performed as Ariel yesterday i…AmusingHere I am sketching spaceships like I’m 12 again. I feel like re-reading the novelization …AestheticsThe girl will be dancing as the Gold…
Could the absurd examples of bizarre public discourse please stop happening so I can investifart some of them? Similar:NASA: No, The Eclipse Won't Blind Pets I once heard a fellow grad student s…Current_EventsRichard Halloran / Owns Home Computer.“Engineers now predict the day will come…Amusingdungeon.jpg (JPEG Image, 2535×1616 pixels)Great Zork map.AestheticsRevisiting a Website I Created in…