Update in a legal battle that’s been going on for 8 years. A long-running copyright lawsuit between the Authors’ Guild and Google over its book-scanning project is over, and Google has won on the grounds that its scanning is “fair use.” In other words, the snippets of books that Google shows for free don’t break…
My 15yo son’s Christmas wish list: “An iPod case that fits, and a letter opener. I hate to tear an envelope.” Similar:What kids do when Dad won't hand over the iPod So I’m not being selfish… this is …EducationClassroom collaboration marketplaceWhile I am uncomfortable with the whole …BusinessParallel Structure vs. Faulty ParallelismI just touched up…
Did all these stories spring from a common source? To resolve that question, Tehrani took 58 variants of the X-eats-Y tale and classified them based on 72 plot variables: For example, are the protagonists human children or animals? Male or female? What kind of creature plays the villain? Do the protagonists escape, and if so,…
“I am endeavoring, ma’am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit, using stone knives and bearskins.” #StarTrek Similar:Hello, there, mini.Hello, there, mini. Let’s restore you fr…TweetsJuror's CreedWhile researching my obligations for #ju…CultureI asked my geekling whether she was ready for bed…I asked my #geekling whether she was rea…AmusingMaybe I'll just delete these QUARTER OF A MILLION…
Introducing my kids to the classic #startrek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” They don’t make TV like this anymore. Similar:Classroom collaboration marketplaceWhile I am uncomfortable with the whole …BusinessOverheard at Quora: "Why after all these years is Moodle still so ugly?"Moodle is a free course-management tool …AcademiaHello, there, mini.Hello, there, mini. Let’s…
What inspires my awesome journos to meet their deadline? The “Empire Strikes Back” soundtrack. (Editor: “I love you.” Reporter: “I know.”) Similar:In Defense Of Metaphors In Science WritingWe live in an elegant universe. The c…CultureShe doesn't have keys or a phone or an ID. Why does my tween need a purse?To stash her Lemonheads and…
Hey, Tony. See this photo of Shrek? Here, stand by this window, with the light on the left side of your face. Now, give me a closed-mouth smile. And tilt your head a little. Okay, that looks good. But I’ve got a spare hour or so. As a child of the 70s, I fondly recall…
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The vast majority of Americans remember it as the day that an American president was assassinated. Only a few also remember it as the day that television news grew up. One of them was the young reporter seen carrying the camera on rare videotaped footage of the Channel 8 newsroom just minutes after the president…
It was a new, shocking, traumatic thing for Americans — who were used to getting their bad news from kindly gentlemen who filtered it for them and helped them digest the worst bits — to watch reporters, live on air, learning new details and reacting as they happened. First CBS Bulletin (at 10:45 into a…
Journalists will be allowed to use Instagram, Twitter and other social media to post still photos and news from the Sochi Olympics, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams confirmed to For The Win in an email on Monday. “Please take as many photos as you like!” he wrote. “Sharing pix on social media positively…
My daughter spends a lot of time with her theater friends, who thrive on community and love giving and getting attention. Every so often she reports being puzzled by kids who don’t respond well to what she intends as overtures of friendship. Even kids who, as far as I can tell, are confident and outgoing,…
The devices are not really valued as portable screens or mobile gaming devices. Teachers I talked to seemed uninterested, almost dismissive, of animations and gamelike apps. Instead, the tablets were intended to be used as video cameras, audio recorders, and multimedia notebooks of individual students’ creations. The teachers cared most about how the devices could…
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Come see me as the Captain of the Guard, Leigh as the Fairy Godmother, and Carolyn (Sunday only) as Young Fiona. We’re running Act 1 all the way through for the first time tomorrow. Post by Stage Right. Similar:The world's population is lopsided.AwesomeFormer NFL receiver Antwaan Randle El regrets ever playing football“There’s no correcting it.…
For the first time in 159 years, Philadelphians have elected a Whig to public office – specifically, putting a member of the Modern Whig Party into a spot as judge of elections in Northeast Philadelphia’s 56th Ward, in the Rhawnhurst section. Robert “Heshy” Bucholz, 39, a software engineer with four children and a fifth on…
Salon has an interesting essay on multimodality in the wild. I know, I know: To some of you the idea of using a GIF (for the uninitiated: a small, soundless animated image on a repeating loop) in a book review sounds bizarre. But the practice does flourish, if controversially, in some sectors of Goodreads’ universe…
Wonderful snark from an indie bookseller unimpressed by a fairly transparent plan by Amazon. “Left Bank Books announces its new program whereby Amazon.com buys its books from us at a fifty percent markup over list price. They will also be charged shipping. We believe this will allow Amazon to be a part of the bricks…
If you’ve ever used the Wayback Machine, then you already know how useful the Internet Archive is. This morning at about 3:30 a.m. a fire started at the Internet Archive’s San Francisco scanning center. The good news is that no one was hurt and no data was lost. Our main building was not affected except…