Opening Night: New “The Little Mermaid”
At night, instead of getting ready for bed as she was ordered, my ambitious little diva created this costume. (Note fork.)
Why A Teen Who Talks Back May Have A Bright Future
When my daughter was five or six, and she got into trouble along with her older brother, she would overhear me explaining to my son why I would punish him more severely than his sister. Pretty soon, when they both got caught, my daughter would shriek, “You have to punish Peter more than me, because…
Apples Textbooks For 1-percenters Will Leave Most Children Behind | Fox News
Publishers who want to create titles for Apple’s iBooks store must use Apple’s iBooks Author application, which runs on Mac OS X only. Publishers who use Windows or Linux computers in the office need not apply. If you want to create EPUB books, you can get software that runs on any platform. Just as with…
The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA
Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its software’s output. It’s akin to Microsoft trying to restrict what people can do with Word documents, or Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can’t freely sell it to Getty. As far as I…
Seton Hill University Recognized By Apple
Seton Hill University has been named an Apple Distinguished Program for its success in enhancing and extending teaching and learning with thoughtful and innovative implementations of technology. The Apple Distinguished Program designation is reserved for programs that are recognized centers of educational excellence and leadership. —Seton Hill University – A Leading Catholic Liberal Arts University…
copyranter: New Milwaukee Public Library ads mock facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
copyranter: New Milwaukee Public Library ads mock facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.. Similar:Microsoft's Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It: "If I had to choose between your…According to screenshots posted by …Current_EventsReplaying Childhood: On Gifting my Video Games to the Library of CongressTevor Owens writes: Giving up my games…CultureSplit Infinitives in English: Not…
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Leaping Off the Page: The Future of Type.
You may also notice the offer, at right, for a special pair of glasses glasses. Order them—or, if you have them already, remove them from their plastic casing and put them on; you will notice that when viewed through these glasses, the doubly printed words appear to leapleap off the screen screen. At first, the effect may be…
The Web Means the End of Forgetting – NYTimes.com
With Web sites like LOL Facebook Moments, which collects and shares embarrassing personal revelations from Facebook users, ill-advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact. Examples are proliferating daily: there was the 16-year-old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook,…
The Horror… The Horror! How Music in Horror Games Effects Player Experience
From one of my students, a blog-based presentation on music in horror games. Regardless, safety in ARG’s may not necessarily diminish the game’s terror-effects. Many horror movies and games are based upon the principles of Freud’s theory of The Uncanny, or what makes something scary (Helene Cixous, a literary critic, gives an advanced yet interesting…
‘Little Mermaid’ brings new music to the Andersen fairy tale – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The story line is similar to the Disney-movie version of the story about a mermaid who braves the forces of a sea witch to win her prince. Stage Right artistic director Anthony Marino adapted the film script for the stage with original music by David Mahokey of Connellsville, a Point Park University student, and Greg…
What Comes before the Platform: The Refuse of Videogames | Play The Past
It takes a digital humanist to make this kind of argument. I don’t mean to invoke the turf-fencing debate about what the digital humanities means, I mean to honor a question that forces us to remind ourselves that we are the Eloi, the pampered elite whose world of comfort exists only because of the toil…
What do you do with a BA in English? | ZDNet
I don’t know what Kid #1 will do with his BA in English (OK, writing…whatever!). Maybe he’ll write the next great American novel. Maybe he’ll be a marketing rockstar. Maybe he’ll write for ZDNet. Maybe he’ll be the next Sondheim. It doesn’t matter. The more I think about it, the more I wish my doctors…
The New York Times public editor’s very public utterance
Now, it’s worth noting that Brisbane’s question makes perfect sense, considered from the newsroom’s perspective. Romney’s claim that Obama makes speeches “apologising” for America isn’t readily amenable to fact-checking. Instead, Romney relied on what are sometimes called “weasel words”, in which an allegation is alluded to, without being made head-on. (Romney, for instance, never quotes…
Birthplace of a Robot
Not quite as dramatic as the creation of the evil robotess Maria (in the 1927 Fritz Lang film Metropolis), but more educational. Kids and some dads from my son’s FIRST Robotics Competition club discuss strategy. I’m blogging the process; soon I hope to get the kids involved, but for understandable reasons, they are mostly interested…
Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad? : Deceptive Cadence : NPR
They gathered professional violinists in a hotel room in Indianapolis. They had six violins — two Strads, a Guarneri and three modern instruments. Everybody wore dark goggles so they couldn’t see which violin was which. Then the researchers told the musicians: These are all fine violins and at least one is a Stradivarius. Play, then…
Panic, confusion aboard sinking cruise chip – CNN.com
Nobody’s perfect, but this proofreading error is embarrassing in a serious story about an accident that involves suffering and potentially death. Panic, confusion aboard sinking cruise chip – CNN.com. Okay, well done, CNN. Similar:Astronaut Luca Parmitano describes near-drowning experience in spaceWith water already obscuring his vision,…Current_EventsInaccuracy Of Every Single Detail Forces Student Paper To Pull…
Maya Angelou says King memorial inscription makes him look ‘arrogant’ – The Washington Post
The sermon was so powerful that the designers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington selected those lines to be inscribed on the memorial’s towering statue of the civil rights leader. But because of a design change during the statue’s creation, the exact quotes had to be paraphrased, and now one of the…
Smallest magnetic memory uses just 12 atoms – physics-math – 12 January 2012 – New Scientist
A dozen atoms have been made to store a bit of data magnetically – a feat normally performed by a million atoms. The work could one day help shrink the devices that store computer data. —Smallest magnetic memory uses just 12 atoms – physics-math – 12 January 2012 – New Scientist. Similar:Multitasking while studying: Divided…
Nicholas Carr on E-Books
The ability to alter the contents of a book will be easy to abuse. School boards may come to exert even greater influence over what students read. They’ll be able to edit textbooks that don’t fit with local biases. Authoritarian governments will be able to tweak books to suit their political interests. And the edits…
The Irascible Professor-commentary of the day 01-10-12. “From parchment to attachment.”
Leo Tolstoy is scribbling furiously in the light of a dimly burning candle. At such close quarters, its searing heat has covered his forehead in a permanent patina of sweat, making the great novel a true work of toil. Suddenly, in the middle of a particularly vivid war scene, he curses out loud and blows…