—Evolution of the Latin Alphabet (Evolution of Alphabets Page) A very interesting animated GIF that shows how the Latin alphabet (which is basically the modern English alphabet) developed from the Phonecial alphabet. Similar:Spring and Fall, by Gerard Manley HopkinsMárgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldeng…AestheticsSurprise sidewalk encounter with my man Hopkins outside the Admin shuttle stop this…
—how to make 3D lemurs out of clay (Google) According to my server log, someone came to my site after searching for “how to make 3D lemurs out of clay.”I was curious… and I used my finely honed Google searching skills to find “miniature lemur sculpture.” I’m not sure that I’m a better person for having…
Games today are many times more complex than games were even a few years ago. Recreating every three-dimensional point of a complex cave environment is going to take an artist several orders of magnitude more time than dropping a few rough dots on an Atari 2600’s 196×160 screen and calling it a cave environment. Similarly,…
Prices will be roughly comparable to DVDs — $20 to $30 for new releases, $10 to $16 for catalog titles. Now doesn’t that bother some of you? I‘m sure it bothers exhibitors, those that own multiplex cinemas. —Scott Rosenberg —Movie downloads an evolutionary idea? (Monsters and Critics.com) Similar:The 22 rules of storytelling, according to PixarMy favorite:…
Email as a collaboration tool sucks. Everyone knows this. Everyone says it. Everyone writes about it. And everyone agrees that its inefficient, it’s chaotic, its silo’ed and its full of spam. Yet, in spite of these shortcomings, we can assume with confidence that email is still the preferred method of “collaborating” and sharing information with…
Andrew Swinand, executive vice president at Starcom Worldwide, a major advertising-buying agency, said during a panel discussion that newspapers could do more to harness their presence online, such as getting more participation from audiences. Swinand also said his firm would like to buy advertising across newspaper websites but had difficulty doing so, and had to…
O’Connor’s depiction of humanity’s struggle with surrender and submission touched me more deeply than most of the modern works I’ve read lately. At one point–when Hulga starts shushing the boy and trying to seduce him into atheism–I actually felt some kind of strong internal reaction and inexplicably threw the book across the room. I felt…
Content rules. It did ten years ago, and it does today. People don’t use things they don’t understand. Writing for the Web is still undervalued, and most sites spend too few resources refining the information they offer to users. Jakob Nielsen —Growing a Business Website: Fix the Basics First (Alertbox) Similar:If I don't design the control…
Rather than the familiar panels consisting of three 15-20 minute papers, a pitcher of water, and a brief Q&A (time permitting), these meetings were structured as “electronic poster sessions.” Multiple presenters stationed around the perimeter of the room in front of easel displays and laptop computers demonstrated their projects and spoke to anyone who stopped…
Half-Life 2 Mod: Week 6 – Switchable Chandeliers, Automatic Sliding Doors, Railings, Carpet (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) This was a tremendously productive weekend. After helping two fellow interactive fiction fans finish a proposal for next year’s MLA, I tackled a few things I had been meaning to get to for a while. The first picture shows the…
The complex choices facing leaders in the Middle East have long confounded observers. But two graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University are hoping their video game based on the conflict will help players find solutions _ and raise capital for their new company. Asi Burak and Eric Brown, along with a team of fellowr students,…
“It must be true. I read it on the internet.” Au contraire, mon frere. Internet hoaxes have been around for as long as the internet itself, and we never run out of people willing to fall for them. —10 Best Internet Spoofs Similar:Past Tense, Part 1 (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 11) Plot contrivance…
6. Adventure Microsoft (1972) —Top 10 adventure games of the 20th century (Adventure Classic Gaming) What the hell? Microsoft didn’t even exist in 1972. Similar:I sometimes snark at the @Turnitin interface, but…I sometimes snark at the @Turnitin inter…CybercultureDespite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the …[A] popular type of generative AI…
All code operations, despite their metaphoric faculties such as “call” or “return”, come down to absolutely local string manipulations and that is, I am afraid, to signifiers of voltage differences. Formalization in Hilbert’s sense does away with theory itself, insofar as “the theory is no longer a system of meaningful propositions, but one of sentences…
As children, we spend much of our time in imaginary worlds, substituting toys and make-believe for the real surroundings that we are just beginning to explore and understand. As we play, we learn. And as we grow, our play gets more complicated. We add rules and goals. The result is something we call games. Now…
Your pictures fill my weekday world at five. The yellow crime tape flutters at the scene Of yesterday’s event. You’re there, on screen, Square-jaw’d Slick Goodhair, you’re reporting live. But first, “Are you depress’d? Or weak, or dumb? This pill, this car, this show, this boy, this chick, This beer, this low-carb pizza on a…
Fine example of a WW II Enigma cipher machine in a very good condition and a great history; full functional. Year of construction 1941 by Manufacturer Chiffriermaschinen Gesellschaft Heimsoeth and Rinke, Berlin. The Enigma machine is placed in an oak woodwork case. Three high-quality, all-metal, matched rotors and an Umkehrwalze ?B?. The rotors are continuous…
Still unconvinced of my suitability, he reminded me that the job involved backbreaking work and that the average person could not hack it. He warned me that I would leave the job daily with various aches and pains. I countered that I worked out regularly and that I was not afraid of a strenuous job,…
Universities and colleges, including my own, have made retention a priority, encouraging faculty members to rethink what they do in order to foster student success. However, this is only half the effort needed, and may come too late for many students. Like the musical Chicago’s Velma Kelly, colleges and universities cannot be a one-person act…
Professor June Entman says her main concern is that students are so busy keyboarding they can’t think and analyze what she’s telling them. […] Student Cory Winsett says if he must continue without his laptop, he’ll transfer to another school. —Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class (AP) Similar:My "Writing About Literature" Students Are Sampling Text Adventure…