An Estimate of the Number of Shakespeare's Atoms

About one in seven of the Shakespearean atoms in your body originated from his excrement. —An Estimate of the Number of Shakespeare’s Atoms (Jupiter Scientific) Deep thought of the day. Similar:Love Online”The exchange of love letters was centra…CultureSmac McCreanor – HydraulicPress Series compilationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqB6UxE…AestheticsBritish Politician begins reciting colonial-era Kipling poem in in Myanmar templeAfter the UK ambassador…

Sleep and the Sabbatical

I had not expected students to care only about their high grades (A or A- are the only acceptable “good” grades) and about getting work done so they can get on with their partying or video games (“relaxing”) or even sleeping. I had not expected that students would dash off a first draft and think…

Armed and dangerous

[W]e all know that many actual rappers and hip-hop identities are in fact middle class computer geeks from nice suburbs (or indeed public school educated sons of bishops). Is the converse true? —Rich —Armed and dangerous (ObservatioNZ) An interesting reflection on nerdcore hip-hop. (I prefer geeksta rap, but that’s just me.) Similar:What My Classroom Looks Like…

[White]-o-Glyphics:Introduction

— Matthew White —[White]-o-Glyphics:Introduction (White-o-glyphics) These glyphs translate as “It was a dark and stormy night.” Fascinating stuff. It reminds me of a long bus ride that I spent sitting next to a hearing-impaired woman. I had learned the American Sign Language alphabet in third grade, but after spending several hours with this woman I figured…

Another SCD103 victim

My barely-used, barely-2-year old SCD103 is giving me the black screen in Camera mode but appears operational in Playback mode. I have called Samsung twice and was fed much the same story as I’ve read on this post. Please add us to the lawsuit too! —Another SCD103 victim (Camcorderinfo.com) My camcorder recently went out while I…

Step Afrika Performs at Seton Hill

Step Afrika, the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping, performed at Seton Hill on Thursday, February 8. Step Afrika is critically acclaimed for its efforts to promote an appreciation for stepping, an art form born in African American fraternities and based in African traditions. Step Afrika serves as a…

Mags' Circ Sags: Top Titles Down

Magazines – like television and other Old-Guard media – are seeing readers and advertising dollars follow consumers online. —Paul Tharp —Mags’ Circ Sags: Top Titles Down (NY Post) While “Mags’ Circ Sags” is a very efficient headline that lets the typesetter print it out in huge, eye-catching letters, a more informative title doesn’t take up any…

Introducing the book

—Introducing the book (YouTube) New media anxieties are nothing new. Similar:The eagles in Lord of the Rings are a plot hole, but also an us problemPart of my enjoyment of genre franchises…BooksThe CRAFT of News Writing (Clear, Relevant, Accurate, Fair, Timely)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwEZPWSE…CultureThe Assignment #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 5) Keiko is not herself after a t…Rewatching…

Evolution, Alienation and Gossip: The role of mobile telecommunications in the 21st century

The space-age technology of mobile phones has allowed us to return to the more natural and humane communication patterns of pre-industrial society, when we lived in small, stable communities, and enjoyed frequent ‘grooming talk’ with a tightly integrated social network. In the fast-paced modern world, we had become severely restricted in both the quantity and…

Teaching Carnival #20

With the ides of February comes lots of snow and Teaching Carnival #20. —Teaching Carnival #20 (Revisionspiral) I just noticed that Revisionspiral included my to do list in Teaching Carnival #20. I’m still not finished with that list, but I’ve made good progress. Similar:Standardized-test robo-graders flunk“According to professor of theory of kno…AcademiaMy Latest Classic Tales Online…

2014 EPIC, by Google

—Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson —2014 EPIC, by Google”Museum of Media History”) Via cac.aphony.org. A great companion piece to Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us. Similar:Destiny (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 15) An ancient prophecy tests Kira’s fa…Rewatching ST:DS9 The station prepares …CultureHe dedicated years of his life to QAnon. One day made…

URL-Hacking: Do-it-yourself Navigation

Sometimes lawyers contact me about a case featuring URL hacking (or, as one such lawyer called it, “URL typing”). I haven’t yet been interested enough in a case to offer to do any writing or testifying for free. But I’ll summarize my position here. If a company built a private warehouse, not intended to be…

Hotel Dusk: Novel or Game?

Pundits have been predicting the arrival of “interactive fiction” for decades — dating back at least to the clunky, campy Choose-Your-Own-Adventures of the 1980s. Video games ploughed some of this terrain: Some of the first, like Zork, were text-based adventures, which themselves were born out of the storytelling vibe of Dungeons and Dragons. But Hotel…