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The headline made me click the link, and the lead made me blog it. (I confess I didn’t actually read the story, because I doubt anything could live up to that kind of an introduction.) A crackpot Times Square performer who was once busted making anti-Semitic slurs while dressed as Elmo admitted Wednesday he tried…
… but in real life, not every secret held by a private citizen is newsworthy. 2/2 @CordeliaLogan Similar:RT @PhilKomarny: A floppy disc… In #context htt…RT @PhilKomarny: A floppy disc… In #co…TweetsMaybe I'll just delete these QUARTER OF A MILLION spam comments.Not kidding — 254,460 spam comments in …CybercultureHow hate and misinformation go viral: A case…
Very true! If this were a TV show with a reporter hero, these documents would uncover a huge conspiracy… 1/2 @CordeliaLogan Similar:Habits for happiness: tips for looking on the bright side of lifeHabits for happiness: tips for looking o…PersonalClassroom collaboration marketplaceWhile I am uncomfortable with the whole …BusinessJudge: Apple conspired to fix eBook prices.Judge: Apple…
Attention must be paid. Meanwhile, in the past year, her teaching load had been reduced by the university to one class a semester, which meant she was making well below $10,000 a year. With huge out-of-pocket bills from UPMC Mercy for her cancer treatment, Margaret Mary was left in abject penury. She could no longer…
@CordeliaLogan If he were real, and had been my colleague, I wouldn’t want to discuss his personal life in a public forum. Similar:RT @DDeClaudio: Who do you think controls the news…RT @DDeClaudio: Who do you think control…TweetsLoved seeing A Comedy of Errors @setonhillLoved seeing A Comedy of Errors @setonhi…TweetsJudge: Apple conspired to fix eBook prices.Judge:…
“2011 called. They want their meme back,” I teased a student w/ a Nyan Cat T-shirt. (I was NOT actually wearing my fanny pack at the time.) Similar:My Minecraft-obsessed tween made this blocky foam pig at art camp. Next up: Stage Right summer musical th…AestheticsI asked my geekling whether she was ready for bed…I asked…
Then I realized… I’m a guy who gets excited about grading papers in a park. Similar:Male Microsoft Leaders Ignored Women Who Really Hated ClippyI hated Clippy, not because it looked li…Business10 Developer Tips To Build A Responsive Website [Infographic] – ReadWrite The first thing to think of when…CybercultureThis English major will walk off the graduation…
I used something very similar to this shoulder-bag mobile phone when I interned at a radio news station my junior year in college. —14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985. Similar:How We Can Help Students Survive in an Age of Anxiety Today’s students have also lived…AcademiaStudents Are Using ChatGPT to Write Their Personal Essays Now:…
Where did this idea of parallel universes come from? Science fiction is an obvious source: in the 1960s, Captain Kirk met his ‘other self’ in a Star Trek episode called ‘Mirror, Mirror’, while Philip K Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle (1963) imagined an alternate world in which the US was a Nazi…
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Today the awkward but delightful “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me explain why Shakespeare put the awful “Pyramus and Thisby” play after the main plot has resolved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. http://t.co/WSXD943LpG Similar:Seeing a different cast. Break all the legs!CultureI ordered a box of composition books. Low-tech response to AI.I felt like a capitalist,…
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When I was interning at a radio station in the late 80s, the power went out. A generator kept the station on the air, but with no computers or phones, we had no news to report. As it happened, I had brought a copy of the university paper with me. The news director pointed me…
For Apple, “change” no longer refers to revolution. It refers to fashion. Apple is becoming more like Prada and less like Edison. This has been the case for some time, it was just harder to notice as the iPhone was undergoing large-scale adoption. But in retrospect, Steve Jobs’s keynotes functioned more like catwalks than like…
I told them to put their name on both pages. 6 of 22 forgot. I had to do handwriting forensics to match the orphan pages. I hate quizzes. Similar:Three more performances of Jane Eyre. Closes Saturday night! @pictclassictheatrePersonalWhat would holidays be without Dickens' beloved 'Christmas Carol?'It takes some visits from three scary sp…DramaDo the Best…
She was a rookie in the autumn of 2001, the first female F-16 pilot they’d ever had at the 121st Fighter Squadron of the D.C. Air National Guard. [….] She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner…