(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:Woman comments on man's looks. Man FREAKS OUT.If I ever over-react…
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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:Bing's AI chatbot helped me solve a technical…
“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:Windows 3.1 Turns 30: Here’s How It Made Windows EssentialAfter watching all the episodes of the 8…AestheticsOwner of former Latrobe…
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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:My Father's Day adventure included replacing the family gaming computer (a 2011 Mac Mini…..One of the benefits of working at Seton …AcademiaPythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000…
“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’s newsgathering during COVID-19 at the state level? Depends on the governor.Journalists covering state responses to …CulturePolice raid best-selling Turkish newspaper hours after government takes it overTurkish authorities…
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:All of Your Co-Workers are…
may be crappy, but its CEO claims to have patented the search engine. Kieren McCarthy.AltaVista Similar:Troy Sterling and the Active and Passive VerbsJerz > Writing > Grammar…AestheticsPitching a Magazine Article: Resources for Beginning Freelance WritersJerz > Writing >&nb…BooksParallel Structure vs. Faulty ParallelismI just touched up a handout on Parallel …HumanitiesThe Incredible Shrinking Ad [The Future Web Is Mobile]Is higher education…
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:Spent a half hour taming this tangle of cables (left) with a little tiny six-inch-wide car…AestheticsA Mind Forever Voyaging reviewWhen it comes to gameplay, A Mind Foreve…CybercultureNPR quits…
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:The Other 21st Century Skills User Generated Education.AcademiaWork-Life Balance, from 11(!) Years AgoI think I’m managing work-life balance p…AcademiaVaccine hesitancy morphs into hostility, as…
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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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:Playing video games linked to breast-feeding, not crimeGreat piece from Ben Kuchera at Ars Tech…AmusingAbout the Sinkhole in the Adjunct Faculty Lounge, and Other Mid-Semester AnnouncementsI…
“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:Is There a Santa Claus? (Reading of 1897 editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church)https://youtu.be/qZUEO8zD6EQ CultureThe Ship #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 2) Sisko defends his claim to salvage a…Rewatching ST:DS9 The Ship On a mine…DramaThe CRAFT…