In one of the most secretive presidential trips in American history, George W. Bush flew to Baghdad under intense security on Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with United States troops and to thank them for standing up against the “band of thugs and assassins” they are fighting in Iraq. —Elizabeth Bumiller —On Secret Iraq Trip, Bush…
INTJ – “Mastermind”. Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test INTJ: Mastermind I think the Myers-Briggs Personality Test is copyrighted material, so I wonder about the legality of this online version. Found via Kate Cielinski…
Tomorrow (Thursday) will be Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. — a time for turkey feasts and family gatherings. I’ll probably blog a bit when I get the chance, but I’m also preparing syllabi for next semester. I’ll be teaching the second half of “Seminar in Thinking in Writing,” a course in “Media Aesthetics” (the…
—Miss Pennsylvania Pageant (Sugarpacket) My student Karissa Kilgore is participating in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant this weekend. She had hoped to use her weblog as a way to keep her family informed, but alas since MT won’t let us post comments, she’s missing an opportunity to let her friends and family cheer her on. If anybody…
—done! (dr jill/txt) Congratulations to Jill Walker, whose Ph.D. defence was closely watched in certain parts of the blogosphere. Similar:Very Berry Dead Makes a Big Impression at Big Storm Performance CompanyCarolyn Jerz lights up the stage from he…AwesomePen Pals (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 15) Data Hears a WhoRewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…EmpathyThe false link…
Untenured radical flirts attend MLA meetings in skirts, feathers, tassels and suits, with leatherette boots Rendered wholly from Savile Row shirts —Kieran Healy (see first comment) —Like Circus Ponies? (Invisible Adjuct) Similar:FDR in AnnieI’ve accepted the role of FDR in the upc…CultureDigital Storytelling (EL231: Topics in Creative Writing) EL231 “Digital Storytelling” (Dec 1…AcademiaFaculty Senate meet &…
Users are berated and insulted for not having consulted the documentation, but, in many cases, the user can hardly be blamed. The documentation is shoddy, incomplete, and badly organized, if it’s present at all. Exceptions are becoming rarer and rarer.| As documentation decreases in quality, users stop turning to it. As users stop turning to…
Doctors say Mrs Roberts, who was born and bred in Indiana, has a condition called foreign accent syndrome. | This rare condition occurs when part of the brain becomes damaged. This can follow a stroke or head injury. There have only been a few documented cases. —Stroke Gives Woman British Accent (BBC) This article conflates the…
He was giving away Zippos for answering a survey…. So, even though I don’t smoke, I took the survey. He asked what I smoked, and I answered “Marlboro Lights.” Divine inspiration. Then he asked the tough question. “Hard or soft?” Well, I had no idea cigarettes could hard or soft. I was pretty sure they…
Most newspapers have traditionally not made room for online producers and editors in their newsrooms, shuffling them off instead to a different floor, or to a different building entirely.|But in the past few years, many newspapers have decided that having two newsrooms — one for print and one for online — doesn’t make much sense.…
“We intend to try our case in the courtroom, not in the public or the media.” —Michael Jackson, on a website devoted to trying his case in public and in the media. —Michael Jackson (The Official Press Room) I don’t actually blame the guy for wanting to have his say, but it’s a bit hypocritical…
Moveable Type FrustrationLiteracy Weblog) I’ve been using MT since the middle of September and haven’t had a single problem with it — until now. Since some time over the weekend, none of the 40 or so authors on blogs.setonhill.edu have been able to post comments. They can still post blog entries, but we can’t comment…
VOCALOID allows song writers to generate superb authentic-sounding singing on their PCs by simply inputting the words and notes of their compositions. The software synthesizes the sound from “vocal libraries” of recordings of actual singers, such as those being developed by Zero-G, and retains the vocal qualities of the original singing voices to reproduce real-sounding…
Walt Disney has pulled out of the new $140 million film version of Peter Pan after refusing to give a share of its profits to a children’s hospital in London… Barrie transferred the copyright of his famous creations to the hospital in his will. The hospital has full control over all productions of the play…
Think blogs are useless? Donna, while applying for jobs, got a email back from Central Pa Magazine. They happened to have read her blog and asked her to write a column on food/health for them. Let’s all cross our fingers for her that they ask her to be a regular columnist. | Woo Hoo Donna.…
Everyone knows that some very good people leave teaching because it pays so poorly. Some experts estimate that there is one well-qualified teacher not teaching for every one now in the classroom. Under my Leave No Teacher Behind Act, some of these people would surely return and others stay. That would increase the pool of…
Even now, surveys show that fewer than 50 per cent of Americans believe there was just one gunman. | One of the effects of this is that an entire industry has grown up surrounding the death of JFK, who was shot twice as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza… —The Assassination Industry (NZ Herald) Hmm… I…
—Lileks vs. Salam Roundup (Instapundit) Glenn Reynolds has a good collection of links covering Minnesota blogger and fisker extraordinaire James Lileks’s angry reaction to Iraqi blogger Salam Pax’s criticism of the US-led occupation. Similar:WTAE-TV's Wendy Bell fired over racially inflammatory Facebook posts I have no particular opinion on her perf…Current_EventsThe daughter (giving the piggyback ride in pic…
It’s no coincidence that the most-read blogs are created by professional writers. They have essentially suckered thousands of newbies, mavens, and just plain folk into blogging, solely to get return links in the form of the blogrolls and citations. This is, in fact, a remarkably slick grassroots marketing scheme that is in many ways awesome,…
Believe me, I’m all for the well-placed bit of flatulence, but this is Dr. Seuss, for Pete’s sake, and the onslaught of burps, farts, pee, puke, and almost-bad words is stunningly miscalculated. —Ty Burr —Kitty Litter: Coarse `Cat in the Hat’ is another case of Seuss abuse (Boston.com) This movie sounds awful, but I haven’t read…