—Wooden Case Mod… and more My jaw dropped and I literally gasped when I saw these images. Are they real? Not a phenomenal CGI project? It doesn’t matter — it’s beautiful! Thanks for the link, Will! By the way, my birthday’s coming up next month… hint, hint! Similar:How PatrioticAmusingI was briefly excited that Turnitin.com's new…
An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was…
Customers create any structure they can imagine using Lego’s freely downloadable Digital Designer software. If they then decide to actually build their creation, the software, which keeps track of which pieces are required, sends the order to this corner of the Enfield warehouse. There, employees put all the pieces (which are grouped in standardized bags)…
# Proof by Name Dropping A: What do you think about objection X? B: Well, BigNamei, BigNamej, and BigNamek agree with me. LittleNamei might agree with you, if only they were that silly. # Proof by Absentee Belittlement A: What do you think about objection X? B: Person C, who is not here to defend…
—BlogSearch (Google) Google’s new blog search engine. Looks like it pays too much attention to splogs (fake websites that look like blogs, but exist only to drive traffic to commercial sites). Nevertheless, I found a few references to SHU blogs that I didn’t see in other search engines. Similar:CNN employees resign after retracted articleCNN is pretty…
Discovering that the static that came through our phone could bring the dead, tv-looking thing on our table to life was one of the most fascinating moments of my youth and young manhood. Sadly, that tone is almost gone from our world now, as dial-up disappears in favor of broadband connections (and rightly so). But…
O professor deve deixar claro o que espera. Não traduzi por falta de tempo, mas é uma proposta muito estruturada e, em parte, inspirada pelo fato dos alunos terem uma preocupação maior com o como serão avaliados do que com o que vão aprender. —Refletindo sobre blogs (Projetos Colaborativos) With help from faculty colleagues and Babelfish,…
She listens to her 12-year-old son and his friends as they discuss the novels that their teachers have told them to read over the summer. The boys don’t like them. They seem, in fact, to hate them. The books that her son, Alex, and his friends are compelled to read are highly regarded by teachers…
Exhibit A: vegetable (adj.) c.1400, “living and growing as a plant,” from O.Fr. vegetable “living, fit to live,” from M.L. vegetabilis “growing, flourishing,” from L.L. vegetabilis “animating, enlivening,” from L. vegetare “to enliven,” from vegetus “vigorous, active,” from vegere “to be alive, active, to quicken,” from PIE *weg- “be strong, lively,” related to watch (v.),…
New media, he said, breaks down the economic model of the business he has worked in all these years. “This is really the first time since William Randolph Hearst that a young journalist can think like an entrepreneur,” Mr. Jarvis said. —Tania Ralli —A Journalist and Blogger Tries Teaching (New York Times) Our academic dean sent…
An infant born last month to a severely brain-damaged woman has died after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine, the family said Monday. —Matthew Barakat —Baby Born to Brain-Dead Va. Woman Dies (AP|MyWay) Very sad. Similar:Where Professors Send Their Children to CollegeTo understand this story, you have to ke…AcademiaAnecdotal evidence reliable? One man says “yes”.AcademiaBREAKING:…
ALGERNON Do you really keep a diary? I’d give anything to look at it. May I? CECILY Oh no. [Puts her hand over it.] You see, it is simply a very young girl’s record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will…
She says one of the most powerful facilities in weblogs is pinging, which involves a person posting a comment about someone else’s work on their own blog. They use the ‘TrackBack’ tool to notify the author when they have published the comment, basically inviting them to discuss it. “It alerts the original author that someone…
Infidelity is genetic, say scientists. Electricity allergy real, says researcher. I’ve been collecting “scientists have found the formula for” stories since last summer, carefully pinning them into glass specimen cases, in preparation for my debut paper on the subject. So far I have captured the formulae for: the perfect way to eat ice cream (AxTpxTm/FtxAt…
Because Katrina scattered Tulane students across the nation like dandelion spores, Whiteside hopes that interest might grow near colleges from New York to California that have taken in Tulane students. ?We might ask some of our students in other places to visit high schools with us,? he said. He also hopes that from the wreckage,…
Rami Chami, a graduate student entering Tulane University, was among those who sought refuge in the Superdome. Chami was formerly an editor at the Indiana Daily Student, and has written a three-part series for the paper about the experience. “The field before us, which would have been ideal to lay down on was empty, but…
Flush with the necessities, we offered food and water to passing families and individuals. Many decided to stay and join us. Our encampment grew to 80 or 90 people. From a woman with a battery powered radio we learned that the media was talking about us. Up in full view on the freeway, every relief…
The faculty members contend that buildings that have been erected on campus over the last two decades have done a disservice to the Jeffersonian style — Thomas Jefferson founded the university in 1819 and designed the original campus – by attempting to make look-alikes and by paying too little attention to the use of buildings.…
Two secretaries at one of Sydney’s top law firms have been sacked after a catty email exchange that was circulated around the city’s legal and financial district. —Secretaries sacked after cyber brawl (News.com.au) Think before you push “send”. Think before you blog. Think before you write. Think before you talk. Different technologies, same lesson. Similar:TARDIS from…
I can’t write about my work. Why? Because it is coming out in tomorrow’s edition. I can’t write about my personal life. Why? Because I’ve already given away -way- too much. I can’t give my opinion about current events. Why? Because I’m supposed to be this objective journalist. I’ve reached a point in my blogger…