The user plays Sergeant Smith, while the other characters are virtual constructs. Using a laptop, the user speaks for the sergeant, in Arabic, through a microphone headset and controls the character’s actions by typing keyboard instructions. The project is part of a major initiative, financed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, to…
A US inventor has come up with a hi-tech way of allowing the deceased to talk from beyond the grave – by fixing video screens to their tombstones. Robert Barrows says people could leave video messages before they died, to be played to friends, loved ones or the just plain curious from the grave side.…
“Art often gets taken down when the school is painted and they don’t get put up again. So many valuable and important works were forgotten in boiler rooms, locked closets, bicycle rooms,” Bernhardt-Hidvegi said. […] “We went through every building, every classroom, every basement, every boiler room, every closet, and under every stage” in Philadelphia’s…
Weblogging is no panacea for writing instruction, nor for engendering greater course participation among students. But our initial study has convinced us that weblogging as a general writing activity is worth pursuing in college courses, and that understanding the wide range of generic knowledge students bring to weblogging will help instructors orient and motivate students…
I wanted to try out the effects of democratization and subversion on this process of keeping a klog, and in doing so, possibly learn ways workplace practices could one day be further affected by the force of these software systems. I also saw a visible (and documentable) clash of cultures between old and new media?perhaps…
Before you read on let me note Gmail is still the best free web mailer around, in fact you won’t find any other even playing in this league. But hey, we come to expect that from Google. Some things however we do not… —Philipp Lenssen —Looking Back on Gmail (Google Blogoscoped) Similar:Long Live The English Major—If…
Minnesota communities outside the Twin Cities area have an immediate need for $6.9 billion worth of wastewater treatment, drinking water and storm sewer facilities, according to a report by West Central Initiative, a regional foundation based in Fergus Falls. “If, all of a sudden, you can’t flush your toilet, your house isn’t worth anything,” said…
Nigeria’s agency against economic and financial crime said Monday that it had detained more than 500 suspects and seized property worth more than $US500 million from suspected fraudsters. “Presently we have over 500 suspects in custody, seized assets and recovered properties worth over $US500 million with over 100 cases at various stages of prosecution,” agency…
…being a virtual community is important for sustainability. It is worth noting that at the end of the blog author Julie‘sendeavors to cook her way through the cookbook, she stopped her blog posting. Although several participants tried to create an online group for fans of the the Julie/Julia Project to interact, it failed. The Julie/Julia…
From the outside, this professional complex of modern buildings along Route 30 East near Ligonier had all the appeal of a sedate college campus. Two newer, red-brick buildings sat near the administration office and lab, both housed in a structure that easily could be called Old Main. There was even an aesthetically pleasing weather vane…
Blogging away for the common good or just to keep from watching whatever crap is on TV right now. —Michael Moore —My First Blog Entry (MichaelMoore.com) This is a welcome development… I’ll be very impressed if he enables comments! Thanks for the tip, Mike. Similar:In July, 2000, I was creating handouts on the sounds of poetry,…
In the current rejection of the close-up in mainstream cinema, filmmakers seem to have learnt nothing from the past. The 1950s epics now seem stolid, and most of DeMille is unwatchable. In a few years’ time, The Phantom Menace, George Lucas’s first Star Wars prequel – which was filmed almost entirely in medium and wide…
Does this mean that future weblogs should favour image over text? To do so would be to the detriment of the medium as it is the combination of words and images presented over time that make the visual blog what it is. Yet the contributions that images can make within weblogs should not be underestimated…
We saw other recruits in 20-man teams who had completed the daytime infiltration course with bayonets fixed. They had crawled through puddles of water, slid under barbed wire and thrust their bayonets into tires mounted on wooden dummies. We too completed the course and, panting and sore, found ourselves soaked from bellies to shins. I…
Um, has anyone here actually used MT? The ‘multiple blog’ feature is pretty literally that – it’s not just a mangling of category usage. Each blog has it’s own config, users/permissions, templates, and so forth. For a single user it may not be a big deal, but in a school or business environment it’s a…
A doctoral student at Northeast Urban University — I’ll call him Mr. X — presented my dissertation as his own. He received a Ph.D. and took an excellent research job at Prominent African University. Through my subsequent efforts, he lost his degree, his job, and his reputation. […] Mr. X must have thought that he…
Blogging and other electronic forms of rhetorical delivery and performance will not retain their power and ability to help white people in particular overcome our institutional and other kinds of racism, as I have strongly claimed here, if the Military-Media Complex, the five communication conglomerates in the U.S. as well as others in, for example,…
This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. Such a project requires a multidisciplinary approach, and contributions represent perspectives from Rhetoric, Communication, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, and Education, among others. —Into the Blogosphere Similar:The Crucible,…
Putting aside the issue of whether popular culture is distasteful, no one wants to preside at the opening of the Department of Beanie Baby Studies. —Nick Montfort, interviewed by “Mat”. —Interview with Nick Montfort (E Boredom) Similar:One of the Sadder Lost and Found Messages You'll Probably See TodayNot my item, but the pathos caught my ey…DesignEpilogue…
Brando revolutionized American acting with his Method performances in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “On the Waterfront” and went on to create the iconic character of Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.” —Marlon Brando Dies at 80AP|MyWay) Similar:IPads in the classroom: The right way to use them, demonstrated by a Swiss school.The devices are not…