An in-person casino opened up a few years ago in the shopping mall near my house. I haven’t been inside, but I hope the rent helps the rest of the mall stay open. Just as the in-person shopping has to compete with online retailers, the in-person casino offers a restaurant and entertainment, to establish it…
Similar:How Artists on Twitter Tricked Spammy T-Shirt Stores Into Admitting Their Automated Art Th…Yesterday, an artist on Twitter named Na…BusinessNellie Bly: A Race Against Time | Heinz History CenterOn Nov. 14, 1889, Bly waved goodbye to f…BooksMy son just handed me my serving of noodles in the butter substitute container. Recycling.AmusingA Grave Tale (a short story…
Similar:The exposition officer needs instant access to a pencil case, logbook and mission-critical…AestheticsAt the chess club holiday party. Peter looks forward to his Wednesday…GamesTop U800. #chesstournamentPersonalThe film Carolyn was in is a finalist. The screening will start soon. #48hrfilmproject Sup…PersonalMore delightful #steampunk control panels. These are computationally efficient bitmap rect…PersonalI’m still teaching journalism and my…
Similar:I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say. – The Boston GlobeWhat a storyteller. Boston Globe jour…AwesomeSAT essay section: Problems with grading, instruction, and prompts.In my freshman writing courses I work ha…AcademiaWhere Professors Send Their Children to CollegeTo understand this story, you have to ke…AcademiaBanned Books Week…
Some people out there will never like you, no matter what you do. Some hurting and traumatized people will latch onto you as the symbol of their insecurities, and treat all your imperfections as personal attacks. It’s important not to pay that negativity forward, or to punch down, or to take it out on yourself.…
A dedication in the script of a 1603 Ben Jonson play (Sejanus: His Fall) may have been written by Shakespeare, who appeared in that play as an actor. “It’s tantalising. There are so many parallels with Shakespeare’s style that it must surely make even the most hardened sceptic pause and think.” Initially intrigued, he had…
My grandmother shaped them a little differently, more like segments of a sphere… the name I must have given them in my childhood is just “powdered sugar crescent cookies.” She packed them in a tin with chocolate chip , oatmeal raisin, fork-impressed peanut butter, and maybe sugar cookies? I would have made a beeline for her…
My family thoroughly enjoyed this performance at Greensburg’s Palace. Similar:My precious is fifteen. PersonalWe are all of us works in progress. Sometimes progress looks messy.PersonalStopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening – By Donald J TrumpI have a pretty good idea whose woods th…AmusingWhen it comes to the truth, point of view really does…
Similar:Should the AP Really Have Fired This Pulitzer-Prize War Photographer?The original shot caught a Syrian rebel …AestheticsI didn't ask for the AI icon on my Kindle app. I can't turn it off.I really hate that little sparkly icon w…BooksCreate Engaging Infographics for your ClassroomSeveral of my journalism students have g…AestheticsPlaying a well-dressed bad guy. PersonalFaculty/staff orientation…
Similar:Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in SearchI didn’t watch the game, but I did catch…AestheticsMore #blender3d #steampunk control panel details. #blender3dartAestheticsComputer Interfaces in Star Trek's "Assignment Earth"I was watching classic Star Trek with my…CybercultureI wish I could credit the designer. This is brilliant.PersonalDefiant (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 9) Riker visits DS9, and…
Similar:I regularly teach A Raisin in the Sun but haven't seen a live production in decades. Looki… AwesomePoetry Writing: 10 Tips for Writing PoemsIf you are writing a poem because you wa…AestheticsMy son, volunteering at the local food bank.PersonalThe daughter missed her graduation ceremony because she was performing in Kinetic Theatre'…The daughter missed her graduation…
We are assigning more societal decision-making power to systems that we don’t fully understand and can’t always audit, and that lawmakers don’t know nearly well enough to effectively regulate. As impressive as modern artificial intelligence can seem, right now those AI systems are, in a sense, “stupid.” They tend to have very narrow scope and limited computing…
Similar:Modular low-poly medieval buildings. Ground-level storefronts have more detail than the up…Modular low-poly medieval buildings. Gro…AestheticsWall display by the talented Jess Lohr, interpreting an infographic by Norton (textbook pu…PersonalI can't really articulate why i enjoy crafting #steampunk control panels, but it's been a …AestheticsThe Fantasticks closes today at 2.PersonalIf Wishes Were Horses (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch,…
Similar:Space:1999 design aesthetic merged detailed miniatures with curvy Euro-futurist interior d…Clearly influenced by Kubrick’s 1969 fil…AestheticsTrying Out the Zaggmate Keyboard/Case for iPadI was at a meeting yesterday in our IT d…DesignA support sloop on deck and in the landing bay. #steampunk #neovictorian #aesthetics #desi…AestheticsMobile is a "really punishing format" for indies, says inkle's Jon IngoldMobile…
Police chief and writer Cliff Couch knows his audience. In a paragraph from an article advising LEOs how to deal with reporters, Couch begins with context he assumes his readers already accept, and carefully moves from there to the new ideas he wants them to consider. The horror tales you may have heard about reporters…
In September, 2002, I was blogging about “The Science of Scientific Writing” (1990) from ‘pong’ to ‘pac man’ Michigan Police fall for The Onion satire about terrorist telemarketers “Ebonics” (ebony + phonics) Silly alarmist story about recessive blonde genes A scientist undone by plagiarism Google News (when it was new) Mel Gibson’s plan to film…
From October: A man who was arrested over a Facebook parody aimed at his local police department is trying to take his case to the Supreme Court. He has sought help from an unlikely source, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Monday. –The New York Times,Area Man Is Arrested for Parody. The Onion Files a…
What will we use our phones for next? Image Source The online casino world is consistently evolving. New technologies are transforming the way these platforms operate and how people use them. The biggest evolution occurred when smartphone popularity reached mainstream consumers. People were able to play online casino games no matter where they were.…
Similar:Passage: a Gamma256 video game by Jason RohrerGrand Text Auto introduced me to the exc…AestheticsWhen You've Already Got a Major, But You Love Books (Seton Hill English) When committee work is fun… making…AcademiaIf I don't design the control panels for my fantasy #steampunk project, who will? #blender…AestheticsWhat would holidays be without Dickens' beloved 'Christmas Carol?'It…
Similar:Seeing A Wrinkle in Time. @prime_stagePersonalMy 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA novel with an orphan heroineMy 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA…BooksAttending Religious Perspectives on the War in Gaza. Attending Religious Perspectives on the…PersonalRefreshing my memory of working with reel-to-reel tape as a radio news intern (c. 1989).HistoryI’m really enjoying…