Explain the Internet to a 19th Century Street Urchin With the Funniest Flowchart Ever (The One) – Urlesque

Urlesque Similar:Stop trying to figure out if screentime is good for studentsPro-technology response to the NYT “No C…AcademiaThe school mocked. I turtled.Draft: “As my classmates tormented, I sh…AcademiaWFAA legend on pioneering live coverage of JFK assassination  The vast majority of Americans r…CultureYellow Journalism Did Not Cause the Spanish-American War (Role of Sensationalized Headlin… When a…

Making things hard to read 'can boost learning'

Researchers at Princeton University employed volunteers to learn made-up information about different types of aliens – and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later. They argue that schools could boost results by simply changing the font used in their basic teaching materials. —BBC Similar:Liberal arts college professor assaults alt-right…

Muslims speak out against NPR's political correctness

While a Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), was instrumental in getting National Public Radio (NPR) to fire Juan Williams, some Muslims are speaking out against succumbing to the censorship of political correctness. —Caroline May, The Daily Caller “But it’s just Facebook gossip,” my students sometimes say — even my journalism students —…

Views: The 20-Something Dilemma

For most of the 20-somethings I know, which is an admittedly small group of graduates from some of the country’s best four-year colleges and universities, life’s third decade offers a disquieting mix of uncertainty and promise. Faced with friends scattering across the globe after graduation, the high stakes and complexity of modern life, a tough…

Abstract Pixel Art! (Part 1 of 2)

Pixel art entry from Something Awful. The site includes loads of others (most of which I don’t get). Similar:Adam Bard shaves off half his hair and beard on opposite sides for unique driving licence …Something I might want to do one day, be…AestheticsAdam Savage’s 10 Commandments Of MakingAdam Savage took a few minutes today at…

Halloween Pictures

My wife baked this cake for my birthday (and my daughter’s half-birthday.) Here’s how the family dressed up for Seton Hill’s haunted house fund-raiser for Make-A-Wish. Similar:First page of a student’s Texture project. (This made me laugh.) This clever freshman writing student…AcademiaCheck the source before you share that video that confirms your beliefs or justifies…

Webcamgate case resolved. Badly

Amazing. The educators who used school-provided laptops to spy on teenagers — snapping pictures of them while they were sleeping or not fully clothes–are still on the job, and the taxpayers get to pay the legal bills. There’s a science fiction trope where aliens do something their unearthly mindset considers virtuous, but anyone with normal…

Livetweeting the 1970s Buck Rogers Movie

Soon I will start tweeting the series pilot for the 1979 Gil Gerard Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. #buckrogers 7:44 PM Oct 15th Just from the promo, my son recognized a reused laser sound effect from the original Battlestar Galactica. #buckrogers 7:54 PM Oct 15th I had totally forgotten the flying-through-four-light-blobs warp effect. #buckrogers…

Subtext

     “I am learning about subtext,” he said.      She raised an eyebrow. “You?”      “Yes, me.” he said, casually stretching. “It means the words say one thing, but there’s a more important meaning hidden between the lines.”      She watched him. “Subtext sounds so… interesting,” she said, uncrossing her legs.      He sat next…

Those Evil E-mails

This entry comes from a podcast sponsored by a Lutheran ministry group.  At about 11 minutes in, the presenters discuss a handout that was originally submitted by a student, but that I have continued to maintain over the years.   What kind of e-mailer are you? – Is your electronic correspondence short and to the point,…

GET LAMP: Documentary on History of Computer Games Screened at Seton Hill University

Documentary filmmaker Jason Scott will present GET LAMP, a documentary on word-driven computer games, at Seton Hill University, 7-10pm Tuesday (Oct 5). Scott is a digital entrepreneur with a Twitter account devoted to his cat Sockington (with nearly 1.5 million followers). He regularly gives convention speeches on such topics as Wikipedia and digital archiving. GET…