The Navy is providing handheld computers to almost all of its new officers and giving them to graduates of the Naval Academy and other naval programs. CNN.com Similar:All of Your Co-Workers are Gone: Story, Substance, and the Empathic PuzzlerHowever, running parallel to the evoluti…AcademiaA.I. 'Completes' Keith Haring's Intentionally Unfinished Painting After learning of his AIDS…
More proof that the apocalypse is nigh: “Typing of the Dead” is a typing tutorial that also just so happens to be 3-D computerized gorefest. GamesDoman review of Typing of the Dead. Similar:Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal EnglishI’m planning to begin my online Shakespe…Culture‘Broken Age’ ReviewThis will be my self-reward when I finis…CybercultureThe…
(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:Emily Dickinson Manuscript for "The Chariot"A new Emily Dickinson archive is…
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“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:‘Hunger Games’ to digitally recreate Hoffman filmmakers behind…
“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:Part of my daily routine is practicing German for about 15m per day. With no particular pr…EducationSentence Definition: Species =…
“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:My students seem increasingly confused by the difference between journal title vs. article… Sometimes students will submit bibli…AcademiaPracticing my Unity3D design skills. Forgot to turn on…
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:One Does Not Simply: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Internet MemesWhen we envisioned a journal of visual c…AcademiaSeton Hill's Latest Interactive Multimodal Communications Technology The other…
“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:In June, 2002, I was blogging about… a female autistic scholars lament, Dr. Seuss, Ortho…In June, 2002, I was blogging about …AcademiaIn July, 2002, I was blogging about…
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:In June, 2000 I was…
may be crappy, but its CEO claims to have patented the search engine. Kieren McCarthy.AltaVista Similar:One Child, One Laptop … And Mixed Results In PeruBecause you couldn’t go online, everythi…CybercultureCapitalists Tell Facebook They've Had EnoughIt started as a murmur of dissent, but o…BusinessStudy finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slowerCoders who…
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:The Measure of a Man (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 9)Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….CultureSeton Hill Student Journalists Launch Local Election Coverage Students in my journalism class…
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…
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, 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:Dozens of Plagiarism Incidents Are Reported in Coursera's Free Online Courses”If we really are trying to teach the wo…AcademiaLiaisons (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7,…
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…
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“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:Seton Hill Student Journalists Launch Local Election Coverage Students in my journalism class are pu…AcademiaA Robotic Dog’s MortalityFascinating video journalism from…