may be crappy, but its CEO claims to have patented the search engine. Kieren McCarthy.AltaVista Similar:Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, lost since 1915, is found off Antarctica An expedition that set out in search of…AwesomeGen Z Never Learned to Read CursiveWhen I used to teach a “Media and Cultur…AcademiaA crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad adHave…
One example of metacontent: “People often pass around news articles via e-mail. Some even do it compulsively, in part because it’s so easy…” NY Times (registration required) Similar:Internet Explorer cheated its way to the top, and I won't miss itI started teaching myself HTML in earnes…AcademiaTell Me a Smart Story: On Podcasts, Videos, and Websites…
Once again, The Onion gets it right. Clinton Not Expecting To Collect White House Security Deposit Surveying the White House’s walls and bathroom fixtures in preparation for move-out, President Clinton said Monday that he expects to forfeit his security deposit. “It’s just not worth it,” Clinton said. “I’d rather lose the $575 than have to…
“Once we accept something as ‘good,’ we often persist in doing it even when the result is clearly bad, while telling ourselves that we just haven’t done enough of it. We are subject to a defect of reason…” Dave Kopel —Who Killed George Washington? (National Review) Similar:Operation War DiaryOne hundred years ago today, Britain dec…CultureMythbusting UX…
Fascinating account of DirectTV’s war against hackers. Slashdot. Similar:Taking Harassment Seriously Requires Serious DistinctionsEditor and columnist Jonah Goldberg ques…CultureScoutship Flyby — #Blender3d and #MakeHumanhttps://youtu.be/8bgqZ_-iBcEAestheticsNASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 SpacecraftI remember staying up well past my bedti…Current_EventsThe internet’s memory is fading in front of us. Preserve what you can. Long, self-indulgent essays from a wri…BusinessShould…
, a Notre Dame football player in the ’60s, argues that “The gap between college sports and the fundamental mission of higher education has widened significantly since that time.” Allen L. Sack Similar:The Man Who Photographed GhostsThis review of a book about early photog…AestheticsTurnitin.com UI Woes: One-click, No-confirmation Deletion of QuickMark SetsIn general, I find Turnitin.com’s…
The lessons I learned in just over an hour showed me how poor most Websites are and just how easy it would be for companies to perform their own usability tests to fix a lot of the problems.–David Lidsky, Healing the Web Update: Dec 2014. I originally blogged the above back in 2001. Lidsky’s brief article, written as the…
Top 10 Tips: Write a meaningful subject line; keep the message short and readable; avoid attachments; identify yourself; don’t flame (and more). Jessica Bauer. —Writing Effective E-Mail Similar:Google Books ruled legal in massive win for fair use (updated)Update in a legal battle that’s been goi…BooksConsciousness: Where Are Words?Words, words, words. With the advent of …CultureToilet…
“A new era of newspaper experiments on the Internet, fueled in part by the fear that the Web will not generate profits, has begun.” (NY Times… free registration required.) —Rethinking Internet news Similar:Multimodal Composing, Sketchnotes, and Idea GenerationUsing the mixed media of sketch notes, a…AcademiaDon't hide your online self when applying for college or careerGreat…
“Fighting monsters and escaping from dungeons is a whole different world when you’re a woman. Men are oh-so-helpful when they’re not busy whistling at you.” Andy Patrizio cross-dresses as a half-naked elf babe. Wired.com Similar:Do Cultural Critics Have Any Value Left?[T]he Internet has dramatically changed …AestheticsDiana Kimball on "What Scares Us About Programming?"A few months…
The American Library Association is none too pleased with a new federal law requiring Web filters in public schools and libraries, and has decided to sue. ZDNet —Filter THIS! Similar:My Teenage Son Does Not Know How To Mail A Letter – I Blame Technology – ReadWriteA father learns the Postal Service websi…CultureMaking Connections in Virtual…
“As any snack aficionado knows, crunch-tastic is the ultimate snack-chip adjective, outranking crunch-riffic, crunch-rageous, and even crunch-mongous.” The Onion. Similar:Sports Meant So Much to Me. Why Wouldn’t My Son Play?I heard the boy tell Raffi that all his …CultureTrials and Tribble-ations #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 6) Trivial Time Travel…Rewatching ST:DS9 Strait-laced time c…AmusingEmily…
For textual detective Don Foster, “it’s certainly been interesting going to Shakespeare class, coming back to my office and talking with the FBI or the police department about some document in a criminal case.” Todd Winters. Similar:Journalists dole out cash to politicians (quietly)Traditionally, many news organizations h…EthicsDéjà Q (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 13)…
— updated to handle web sources Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button… you will get an individual MLA “Works Cited” entry, which you may then copy and paste into your word processor. Dennis G. Jerz —MLA-Style Bibliography Builder Similar:A study in breaking news headlines.For the UK Guardian, the news is the…
Every damn fool knows that the phrase “masters of the universe” came from a 1980s TV show. So why did they put that anachronism in the Titanic movie script? After spending all that money on sets and special effects, did they have nothing left to hire a starving English grad student? And when Rose gives…
Here is a link to my 2000 blogging archives, as preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Similar:Take a moment to appreciate these good COVID-19 statisticsMay 1, my state had the third-highest pe…AwesomePict Free Summer Webinar: Shakespeare’s HeroesCultureStar Trek Beyond was an enjoyable nerdy family outing.PersonalLittle Women (the daughter plays Amy, the youngest sister)Personal‘Belonging Is…
I began blogging sometime in 1999, but didn’t begin dating my entries until July 20. Here is a link to my 1999 blogging archives, as preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Similar:Empty InboxMy to-do do list and my “Follow Up” fold…CybercultureAfter you finish your brass-polishing shift, join me at the Gear and Heart to…