Blender Walk Cycle demo — small girl wearing a red sailor suit

My latest Blender 3D experiment. Similar:After my conference talk, a post-audition, pre-Jane-Eyre-performance dinner with the girl.PersonalStar Trek: The MenagerieJust finished watching a two-part episod…PersonalThe Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, YouOverblown Headline of New Yorker Article…CybercultureThe Child –Antoine Bardou-Jacquet –The Child…AestheticsSorry, not sorry. I don't want such friends. Back…

College Newspapers – Confessions of a Community College Dean

I’m all for training students in fact-gathering, clear writing, and getting a sense of the outside world. But I’m wondering if the time-honored student newspaper is still the best way to do that. Has your campus found a more contemporary way to get students the benefits that newspapers used to offer? Maybe a way that…

Hovbergs blogg | Blip

Political message? You decide. Blip from Sean Mullen on Vimeo. Similar:You didn’t make the Harlem Shake go viral—corporations didI never found “Harlem Shake” videos to b…BusinessWhy Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?Not a day goes by without The Girl remin…BooksReporters accurately repeat what VP spokesperson says; different official cites "misreport…The media reports that on an…

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo

Imagine if all teaching happened like this… if all persuasion came from demonstrations like this. World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival. I’ve watched it three more times since blogging it, and it still makes me smile. Similar:Why It’s So Hard For Foley Artists To…

Ten Predictions About Digital Literature

Within five years: (1) Many online journals and magazines now only publishing traditional text-based fiction and poetry will, as part of their online offerings, publish digital literature on a regular basis; (2) Most major universities and many colleges (if they don’t already) will offer courses in New Media, and those courses will cover/include digital literature;…

Nailed 'Em – Library Crime

Colbert’s tag line brought tears to my eyes. (Thanks for the suggestion, Kerry!) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Nailed ‘Em – Library Crime www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Tasers Similar:Missouri governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website • …I’m shocked… shocked that a reporter…

MLA Update 2009

I’m teaching “Writing about Literature” this fall, so I should be up on the new changes in MLA format.  (Via the Reeves Library blog.) I like some of the changes in MLA 2009, including labeling the source of a publication (“Web” or “Print” or “DVD” or the like) and standardizing italics instead of underlining (which…

Happy Anniversary, Leigh

I’ve kept a running tally… I’ve been bored for a total of 4 and 1/2 hours during our 15 years of marriage. You’re the organizer and the schedule-keeper and the worrier, which frees me to camp with the kids in the backyard, marshal a pony army against the dollhouse fortress, and read to them until…

Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance

Listservs, a trademarked software for running e-mail lists whose name is often used to refer to the lists themselves, were once a “killer app” that tempted many professors to try the Internet in the first place, back when many established scholars were skeptical of computers. A Chronicle article nearly 15 years ago proclaimed the exciting…

One Small Step for the Media…

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Restore the noble purpose of libraries

David Stanley pointed me to this thoughtful essay. Modern librarians who prioritize information over knowledge perpetuate a distraction from the real purpose of a library. A library facilitates the patient gathering of knowledge – whose acquisition is superior to almost every other endeavor. Religions have adapted to technology for the most part without being destroyed…

Blender Tutorial: Rigging

This tutorial shows how to rig the fingers in a very clever way. I’d seen this technique described in a text tutorial somewhere, but after seeing it here, I understand it. I also appreciated seeing how to adjust b-bones so that they only rotate, without bending (which results in noodly-looking joints). I really love Blender,…