I was doing a lot of impulse buying during the $9.99 days, but since then, on occasions when I’ve seen the ebook offered at a higher price than a paperback, I have just turned to interlibrary load instead. “Terrified” by Amazon’s Kindle e-reader and discounted e-book pricing, five major publishers allegedly acted together to increase…
David Mahokey of Dunbar, a senior at Point Park University, and Greg Kerestan of Greensburg, a senior at Seton Hill University, wrote the 20-song score and script, respectively, for ″In Control,″ a musical that focuses in part on Mahokey’s real-life battle with bone cancer. Two free performances of ″In Control,″ directed by Anthony Marino, artistic…
Which is cooler? That my 13yo son was just sitting at the kitchen table singing lyrics to MC Frontalot’s “It Is Pitch Dark,” or that my 9yo daughter was chiming in with corrections? It Is Pitch Dark Similar:Seeing the Barebones production of The Sound Inside. (Support the arts in your community!)PersonalToday I didn't save the…
The heartbreaking thing is that this fall, over 10,000 bookstore employees across America will be out of work. The way the publishing industry is going, many of those people won’t be able to find jobs that are even tangentially related to books anymore; they’ll go on to work in movie theaters and grocery stores and…
The layout of this display at the Carnegie Science Center almost makes it look like the Maria duplicate in Metropolis came before Karel Capek’s play RUR (which was written in 1920, first performed in 1921). Similar:How Literature Became Word Perfect There can be no true distinction drawn …CybercultureThis Is What Summer Vacation Is For: Designing…
The control panel. Similar:Memorizer (Memorization Tool)A Midsummer castmate shared a link to th…CybercultureNASA sends humans back to the moon for an orbital visit. I was *such* a space nerd as a ki…I remember being SO excited for the laun…AwesomeFor some reason, I saw a bump in traffic to a page that linked to a "make-your-own-Trump-e… This sort…
Images from an extended tour of a cold war submarine. (We liked the tour we took last year so much, my son and I came back.) [portfolio_slideshow size=medium trans=scrollHorz ] Similar:Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?A good feature from the New York Times: …BooksHow the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive The ink used in a…
My daughter, as the wizard, with her talented castmates, in our local theater school’s preteen summer camp musical. Similar:My colleague @crissycp once again left an amazing Irish soda bread in the break room. (Yes…AwesomeGreat energy at our Comp & Culture poster paper session. So proud of these students an…AcademiaSomeone I know very well is in…
As for Starbucks, the decision to pull the plug is reportedly up to individual stores thought to be only in New York. —Many New York City Starbucks Locations About To Put An End To Squatters « CBS New York. Awkward phrasing… Who is doing the reporting if this fact is “reportedly” so? Who is doing…
In 2008, when her scientific publication, the Journal of Zhejiang University-Science, became the first in China to use CrossCheck text analysis software to spot plagiarism, Zhang was pleased to be a trailblazer. But when the first set of results came in, she was upset and horrified. “In almost two years, we find about 31 percent…
Interesting story about a performance artist who bought what was once high-tech military gear, but ended up sold as scrap on eBay. A glimpse into the hardware and software suggests some interesting critiques of the industrial-military complex. There was no password on the gear that was supposed to be outfitted on the robot, so he…
My friend and colleague, Balázs Tarnai, shared these pictures of a bluejay catching a bug on his garage roof. Similar:Toasty Warm Bed (designed by drunk AI neural net)AestheticsFake Kitsch! Not Really the 80s! There is a part of me that misses …AestheticsProgress over 11 years of Blender3D practiceOver the past few years I have created…
LEGO figurines representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and Galileo Galilei are flying to Jupiter. (NASA/LEGO) August 4, 2011 — They have launched aboard the space shuttle, visited the space station, and flown to Mars. Now, three more “very special” LEGO figurines are set to fly to Jupiter with NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The…
As I understand it, some people reported seeing a man with a gun at Va Tech today. but this ABC report has an image labeled as a sketch of the “shooter.” Did I miss something? Were there reports of a shooting today? Let’s hope there aren’t, and let’s hope for accuracy in photo captions. Virginia…
Another example of how easy it is for a hoax to spread, when the content fits an esablished “narrative,” and editors are hungry for evidence supporting a story they already believe is true. I have no particular love for IE, but the truth is worth publishing.. All you diehard Internet Explorer users can relax this…
I’ve occasionally taught a unit of Flash here or there, but I’m far more interested in HTML5. Interesting to see that Adobe sees HTML5 for the threat that it is to Flash. Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like…
Students are starting to contact me asking about books. I will have the course websites up in a week or two, but for now, here are the textbooks. LA101 “Seminar in Thinking and Writing” From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader, Second Edition (ISBN 978-0-312-60141-6) The SF Writer, Fifth Edition (ISBN 978-0-205-75197-6) EL200…
The 7th edition of the MLA Handbook includes this example: “Hourly News Summary.” National Public Radio. Natl. Public Radio, 20 July 2007. Web. 20 July 2007. In general, I agree with the 7th edition’s position that URLs are not all that useful in Works Cited lists, since people tend to search rather than type URLs.…
Sides: split. Gut: busted. Milk droplets: transferred to computer screen via nasal passages. The 1982 Tron Holiday Special from Rip Taylor via The 1982 Tron Holiday Special from Rip Taylor, Scott Gairdner, Ryan Perez, PerryAdamSmith, Nick Mundy, Funny Or Die, dannyjelinek, BoTown Sound, and James Codeglia. Similar:English teaching: Johnson: Talking past each otherWhen I got…
We want to impress, so we say “utilize” instead of “use” or “orientate” instead of “orient.” We mispronounce, so we say, “nuke-u-lar” instead of “nuclear.” We make up a word, such as “notary republic,” instead of “notary public.” These nuances can be charming, irritating or, if we are fortunate, unnoticeable. But they can be costly…