In June, 2002, I was blogging about A female autistic scholar’s lament The origins of Horton Hears a Who A NatGeo article on the media-saturated life of Iowa college students The function of “er” in speech A Pravda article on parallels between Orthodox Christianity and computer programming Dr. Toast’s Amazing World of Toast (I really…
What was I doing during the summer of June 2001? My daughter was born about nine months later, so I know at least part of what I was doing at the time. 04 Jun 2001 Violent video games encourage violent behavior (Contemporary Pediatrics) 06 Jun 2001 Sci-Tech Web Awards 2001 08 Jun 2001 Author “used…
Similar:Wonderful Retro Control Panel in Seton Hill University Dining RoomI gather the purpose of these consoles -…AcademiaQ Who? (ST: TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 16)Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…MediaA Few Good Men at the Pittsburgh Public TheatreFantastic performances, powerful writing…CultureInside Voices — A Weekend MusicalCarolyn was in this short movie, conceiv…AestheticsI’m still teaching journalism…
What a storyteller. Boston Globe journalist Jack Thomas, who wrote about his impending death a few months ago, made me laugh out loud several times in this touching essay. Very powerful. He was 83. I’ve had the privilege of having spent more than 60 years working for newspapers. There was not a day when it…
Similar:WAOB MisSpelled (final episode airs)The final episode of the fantasy/comedy …AmusingIn Changing News Landscape, Even Television is VulnerableThe transformation of the nation’s news …CultureKatie Couric Gun Documentary Undermined By Manipulative Editing : NPRInterviewer Katie Couric asks a group of…CultureFor God's sake John, sit down!CultureThe Price (ST:TNG Rewatch Season Three, Episode 7) Master Negotiator Beguiles TroiRewatching…
I always slow down and spend some time with this painting when I visit my local art museum. This scene from the Arthurian legends has been out of exhibition for a while and will be back with a new frame Oct 16. A scene of mourning at Camelot, the castle of the legendary King Arthur,…
Similar:Once on This Island (Stage Right! Greensburg; May 11 & 12 Promo Video)The girl plays Ti Moune in “Once on This…CultureSlow flyby of a scout shop. Starfield backdrop; particle-based engine exhaust; hull uses a…More progress as I continue to level up …AestheticsSpent a half hour taming this tangle of cables (left) with a little tiny…
I’m conflicted. This is a very well done animated documentary, creating visuals that were not part of the original press coverage of Floyd Collins, the caver trapped in Sand Cave in 1925, and the subject of the first media circus, fed by the emerging new medium of radio journalism. The animation adds sight gags and…
Similar:Play-Doh was Originally Wallpaper CleanerThe story of Play-Doh began when Kutol, …BusinessThe Mere Presence of Your Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, Study Shows The researchers found that participants…AcademiaI'm having scads of fun designing #steampunk control panels. #blender3d #blender3dart…Aesthetics"Why are you throwing out all the books?!"The short answer is because we’re about …AestheticsThe Staying Power of "A…
When I started my blog in 1999 (by adding a date to a “Link of the Day” archive I had been maintaining for a year or so), I coded everything in HTML, by hand. This was before Facebook, before YouTube, before Wikipedia, and around the time that the domain google.com first went live. Most of…
Similar:Little ThingsI recently came across an abandoned stas…AestheticsReport: Many U.S. Schools Can’t Afford Mannequins, Human Urine For Art Classes“It’s sad, but my students don’t even ha…AestheticsSnazzy officer uniforms from the #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult ch…AestheticsCarolyn as Dolly Levi (Arts4Homeschoolers / Stage Right)I loved listening to her practice the “M…AestheticsFinland's Museum…
Similar:One deck below the bridge, the chief engineer coordinates with his technical heads here at…AestheticsHollow Pursuits (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 21) Misfit Crewmember Faces…Rewatching ST:TNGÂ after a 20-year break….AmusingDigital Humanities: A DefinitionDoes the world need another working defi…AcademiaAnother lovely variation of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3dart #neovictorian #desig…AestheticsNecessary Evil (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2,…
Tell me you didn’t click the link without telling me you didn’t click the link. I don’t watch any TV news and CNBC plays no role in my life, but come on. This post has gotten thousands of likes and generated hundreds of comments, many of them suggesting that CNBC is out of touch for…
When I started using a word processor as a middle schooler in the early 1980s, I recognized the editing commands “cut” and “paste” as metaphors. Here’s a short video showing the physical cutting and pasting that was required to arrange paragraphs of text prepare a document for mass production. According to layout rules, you’re not…
Rewatching ST:DS9 After the recap of Part 1, Sisko, in the persona of Gabriel Bell, reminds loose cannon BC (from the “ghost” gang) that they have to keep the hostages safe as their bargaining chips. Just when BC starts showing Sisko some respect, the veteran cop Vin tries to be a hero, and Sisko has…
Rewatching ST:DS9 The Defiant is ferrying Sisko, Dax and Bashir to Earth for a Starfleet symposium. After a nice bit about how “There’s no place like home, no matter what color the water is,” and some social comedy about tonight’s formal dinner with an admiral, we get a video call from Quark that fills out…
Similar:In May, 2001 I was blogging about lanuguage, design and Cliffs NotesIn May 2001, I was blogging about B…AmusingWhat You Need To Know About WordPress 3.9 Users are now able to create audio and…Current_EventsThe Forsaken (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 17) Lwaxana Troi and the station c…Rewatching ST:DS9 Bashir is hosting t…Culture14 Machines That…
If you’ve been following the sad story of Elijah McClain, a Black man who went into cardiac arrest and died in police custody in a Denver suburb in 2019 (after telling the officers who were arresting them that he was unarmed, that he doesn’t even kill flies, and that he loved them) you might know…
.. Realising that statistics wasn’t for her, Megler answered a newspaper advert for a part-time programming job at a local software company called Melbourne House. It was 1980, and she was halfway through a course that focused on designing operating systems and developing programming languages. “The day I was hired, the first thing my boss…
Similar:How to fix the internet:Â If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond th… A teenager in Indonesia may not see …CybercultureIndustriousness. Self-improvement. Thrift. And orange slime. The girl amusing herself on our 70m …AestheticsAnother section of #steampunk control panel. #neovictorian #design #aesthetics #blender3d …AestheticsHow to create a magazine: 5 tips from…