(See also: Digital Hollywood- No Resolution) —Latest on Napster Update, Feb 27, 2021 The above links are dead, but here’s a screenshot of what the Yahoo News “Technology Full Coverage” section looked like on February 23, 2001. (Courtesy the invaluable Internet Archive Wayback Machine) Similar:Police Say A Lot Of ThingsIt’s not all cops who lie.…
Copyright: Your Right or Theirs? In Defense of Copyleft Timeline- A History of Copyright in the U.S. SUL- Copyright & Fair Use- Copyright FAQ Digital Copyright Reading List Similar:Don't Give Apple Too Much Credit for Bowing to Taylor SwiftApple is skilled at attracting praise. O…BusinessOpinion: Don't link video games with mass shootingsContrary to Dr. Bushman’s suggestion,…
“Now, let’s look a bit more closely at this data, remembering that it is absolutely first-rate. Do you see the exponential dependence? I sure don’t. I see a bunch of crap.” Undergraduate physics student Lucas Kovar reconsiders his career choice. —Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass Similar:Explorers (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 22)…
“Amateur and professional are mutually interconnected. Amateurs are sometimes professionals; professionals are sometimes amateurs. Moreover — brace yourself — history exists.” Marjorie Garber‘s Academic Instincts blows kisses at the literary establishment. Review by Russell Jacoby. Similar:What Part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand?English continues to evolve. I noticed t…CultureSeton Hill Virtual Commencement Fall 2020 AcademiaKnowing…
“Twice upon a time there lived a boy named Jack in the twoderful land of Califivenia.” Read a sample of the late comedian Victor Borge’s inflationary language. Richard Lederer. Similar:“We hate math,” says 4 in 10 – a majority of AmericansIf 30% love math, and 30% are neutral ab…AmusingOn the Importance of Nonverbal Feedback in…
Nearly 20 years after giving up on it, a grown man finds a walkthrough for the classic text game, “Savage Island.” James Lileks revels in computer nostalgia. Similar:Seton Hill Student Journalists Launch Local Election Coverage Students in my journalism class are pu…AcademiaThe Lost Art of Paste-UpWhen I started using a word processor as…AestheticsDon't Be a…
“Typically, when project managers observe their design undergoing a usability test, their initial reaction is: Where did you find such stupid users? Jakob Nielsen —Are Users Stupid? Similar:How Technology Has Changed The Way We WriteSocial media services have put writing t…CultureMy Ouya arrived.My Ouya arrived — a Kickstarter-funded …CybercultureYou're Doing It for the Exposure!! The…
A blurb is a short paragraph that previews what’s on the other end of a link. You’re reading a blurb now. If it helps you decide whether you should click the link, then it has done its job. Dennis G. Jerz —Blurbs: How to write them for your web pages Similar:The Hut Where the Internet…
may be crappy, but its CEO claims to have patented the search engine. Kieren McCarthy.AltaVista Similar:My Father's Day adventure included replacing the family gaming computer (a 2011 Mac Mini…..One of the benefits of working at Seton …AcademiaOpen Source College Math BookOne day last year, David Lippman got an …AcademiaRebound Rumble, FIRST Robotics 2012 GameIn the…
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:My college writing students are out making short videos responding to a prompt.While my students are out of the room ma…AcademiaThe U.S. government and Facebook are negotiating a…
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:Smash the WindowsBy presenting us with colourful screens …CybercultureMy "Writing…
Fascinating account of DirectTV’s war against hackers. Slashdot. Similar:The Article is Dead. Long Live the ArticleTake the background paragraph. It ill-se…CultureFirst page of a student’s Texture project. (This made me laugh.) This clever freshman writing student…Academia"We are not Amazon franchises": booksellers respond to Amazon Source Wonderful snark from an indie bookselle…AmusingMemo to faculty: AI is…
, 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:Alike (2015)This short film reminds us why art matte…AestheticsThis is fine. Really.Thanks(?) to social media, it’s very eas…CultureHow One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine…
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:Celebration of Writing My freshman writing students…AcademiaGoogle Docs MLA Style Works Cited Class ActivityI have rarely been satisfied with spendi…AcademiaThis is about half of the #steampunk control panel details…
“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:Dead metaphor alert, as far as the Associated Press is concernedOther signs of the digital age: we don’t…BooksI didn't exactly set out to…
“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:Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the …[A] popular type of generative AI model&…CybercultureSeton Hill's…
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:The Current War (Quantum Theatre Musical)Waiting for The Current War to start. I …AwesomeThis Is How My Composition & Culture Class Preps an Oral PresentationInstead of…
“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:Very interesting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. #pptlaytime @thepublicpghCultureCollegewide game encourages small interactions around campusI confess I often check my messages and …Amusing2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes workFritz Lang’s Metropolis, the first…