As delegates arrived at the meeting, they were handed an intelligent tag the size and weight of a PDA to wear around their necks. Called an nTag, each delegate’s device was pre-programmed with the conference schedule, which could be displayed on a small screen on the front of the tag, as well as with personal…
“Americans work more hours by far than any other workers in the [industrialized] world,” said Benjamin Balak, who teaches economic history at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. “If you want to be a high-income wage earner, you have to work like a dog. If you want leisure in today’s economy, you’ll be stuck in…
“What can I tell you?” says New York Times Hollywood correspondent Bernard Weinraub. “I screwed up — I’m sorry.” | Weinraub’s apologies, given hurriedly in a very brief telephone conversation, are for lifting a paragraph from another source to use in his Monday, Nov. 11, bylined story about Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano (“Talk of…
Freud’s granddaughter Sophie reminisces about her famous relative. “In my eyes, both Adolf Hitler and my grandfather were false prophets of the 20th century.” —Freud goes up in smoke (The Star) Number of times “Freud” appears in scholarly language & literature articles published published in 2002, as indexed by the Modern Language Association International Bibliography: 47.…
I suppose you could say that the subhead trend bothers me because I’m a writer and I try desperately to perfect antiquated stuff. Transitions and Flow Like transitions and flow, and because I think writing, like most everything else good in life, revolves around flow and rhythm. But the truth is, subheads bug me even…
2: about the laundering The wash becomes a finish the evening tomorrow at the front desk until 7 o’clock at night of the day . (It becomes the evening tomorrow in the morning even if it has.) —About the Laundering (Engrish.com) Found via happy ging. Disclaimer: If I tried writing in German (the only other language…
hey there…. i thought you should know about toastrecipes.com. It has some pretty cool stuff. i noticed you had something about Dr. Toast’s Amazing World of Toast. Well, I just thought you might like to check out toastrecipes.com. —James N. Mallamacee —Toast RecipiesE-Mail) Little did I know that when Rosemary sent me a rather giddy…
[H]umor is very important in the classroom: it can keep students’ attention, it can diffuse tense situations, it can encourage creativity, and it can call attention to absurdity (and sometimes absurdity deserves it, whether its a social phenomena or inherent to a student comment). I even make a number of wisecracks or sarcastic comments, which…
There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken seriously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The code remains the same, the only…
Microdoc News has now had feedback from more than 100 users of Google Adwords. The response from small advertisers is not convincing that Google AdWords actually works. There are one or two excellent supporters of the Google AdWords idea, but there are also the 88% of small-time advertisers who are having less than stellar results.…
Pcol writes “The Washington Post reports that ‘Spim,’ as people are beginning to call unsolicited instant messages, is the latest sign that online marketers will seek to take advantage of other communication tools, not limiting themselves to spam or pop-up ads. The good news is that it’s not easy for spimmers to send unsolicited instant…
Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC) will offer a Ph.D. in Digital Media, starting fall 2004. The program, one of the first of its kind worldwide, is aimed at educating research-oriented theorist/practitioners who will bring the traditions of the humanities and arts to the design of digital media. Graduates of the program…
Some soldiers got drunk and climbed atop a memorial fountain before being run off politely by the Canadian police. Peter Miller, drafted out of the assembly line of a Procter & Gamble soap factory in Quincy, Massachusetts, found himself in jail in Seattle following a dustup at the bus station. | After a few weeks…
I used to read research papers as one would read comic books, eager to see what comes next, reveling about the subtlety of the artwork and the colors. After getting an insider’s view of academe, I recognize that: 1. Now I would rather read comic books than research papers, and 2. The main, most pervasive,…
Video games have received more attention over the past several years as their revenue has grown faster than any other form of digital entertainment. Gross revenue from video-game hardware and software sales has surpassed revenues from movie ticket sales, video rentals and concert tickets, according to Mike Goodman, senior analyst with the Yankee Group. —Katie…
How do you describe what can’t be seen? Well, thank goodness for the marvelous metaphor. If you took all the metaphors I’ve used over the years and stacked them up end to end, they would reach from Earth to the far side of Uranus and back. But all the good metaphors I’ve used could dance…
Actor Christopher Lee has said he was mystified to learn that his key scenes have been dropped from the third Lord of the Rings movie. —Rings director cuts wizard scenes (BBC) Lee plays Sarumon, and in the book he reappears in the climax that brings the Hobbits back to the Shire. So far, I have been…
Forget discriminating people based on their race, religion, gender, or colloquial term for four-square, it‘sall about playlistism. That‘sright, judging people by their iTunes playlist. Now, I can’t take full credit for this idea; playlistism is really the brainchild of Katie ?the iTunes Hatemonger? Brown, but if playlistism ever takes off like the Klu Klux Klan…
Whether you’re rich, poor or somewhere in between, time probably seems to be in short supply. And when intrusions keep draining away precious moments, you probably feel some combination of annoyance, frustration and anger. —Norman Soloman —The Steady Theft of Our Time (Alternet) This time of year on college campuses, time is an especially precious resource.…
Would you accept a gamble that offers a 10-percent chance to win $95 and a 90-percent chance to lose $5? The great majority of people in the study rejected this proposition as a loser. Yet, a bit later, the same individuals were asked this question: Would you pay $5 to participate in a lottery that…