Similar:They called it a "flashlight" because early handheld lights weren't designed to shine stea…A student’s short story featuring a trea…CultureToiletries for a steampunk villain who needs to look dapper. Straight razor and shaving br… Nice lighting shows clearly that I h…DesignGame Design Program for Education & TrainingI haven’t tried GameSalad yet… and won…AcademiaParable of the Polygons…
Similar:Looking forward towards the wardroom (center) and the officers' pub, the Gear and Hea…AestheticsThe exposition officer needs instant access to a pencil case, logbook and mission-critical…AestheticsPoetry Writing: 10 Tips for Writing PoemsIf you are writing a poem because you wa…AestheticsThis weekend! GeyerPAC.comPersonalSchieffer: 'We Now Don't Know Where People Get Their News'The legendary Bob Schieffer is…
According to an article in Medium, toilet paper isn’t selling out because the supply chain is collapsing, or because people are hoarding. We’re using more toilet paper at home. Yes, some people are hoarding, but we’re all spending a lot more time at home. All the toilet paper we would have used at work, in…
Similar:Why Tetris is the 'perfect' video gameRather than wanting to make a film about…AestheticsHanging with the rude mechanicals @setonhilluniversityA Midsummer Night’s Dream.CultureLimit child TV viewing to an hour each day, study urgesThe study followed about 1,000 people fr…HealthThe Wounded (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Four, Episode 12) O'Brien's Former Captain Goe…Rewatching ST:TNG after…
This is just an excerpt. Read the whole thing. Similar:Rest assured, there will soon be enough Rey toys to monetize the imaginations of the littl…The problems of female characters being …BusinessAs White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the ProblemWhen reality contradicts the truths that…CultureJimmy Kimmel Reveals "Worst Twerk Fail EVER – Girl…
Other than one trip to the grocery store, I haven’t been in public since March 13, so I haven’t noticed if people in my community have started wearing masks. But I’ve wondered how I’ll be able to respond to people’s voices when I can’t see their mouths. In the past few years, I have…
A few interesting bits I found interesting to explore: There are two different ways to view the exact same data: The logarithmic scale shows a great comparison of the magnitude of growth between countries, but less of the human impact. The linear scale shows the real human impact — a growth twice the size is twice the number of…
My weekend coronavirus lockdown project was writing up a new handout devoted to Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” for academic arguments. Does the word “argument” make you think of angry people yelling? This document presents Graham’s “disagreement hierarchy,” which catalogs multiple stages between juvenile name-calling and carefully refuting an error in your opponent’s central point. Siblings might…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. After a member of a landing party dies an accidental, senseless death, Picard must break the news to her young son. “Jeremy, on the starship Enterprise, no one is alone,” says Picard. “No one.” Numerous times on my rewatch, I’ve wished episodes would devote less time to scanning and probing…
Public officials misspeak all the time. Journalists make mistakes all the time. Ordinary citizens over-react to headlines without reading the full article all the time. We are all of us human. It’s unfair for any of us to treat every gaffe as evidence of malice or incompetence. For example, critics of President Trump are stretching…
The Shape of the World, According to Old Maps Similar:What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?Current US law extends copyright protect…BooksThe Rage of Virginia Woolf”The passion, if not the logic, of her a…CultureGingerbread USS EnterpriseMr. Sulu, set phasers to delicious! Whic…AestheticsSupport the arts in your community! #augustwilson #radiogolfSupport the arts in your…
In March 2000, I was blogging about Palm V handheld computers for Navy officers Teaching with bells and whistles Stephen King selling a short story online NCAA banning online journalists Great moments in bureaucratic history Diploma mills Maps of imaginary lands Similar:Bad Writing Costs Businesses BillionsThis is thinkpiece rehtoric rather than …AcademiaYou are standing…
Similar:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – About the game30th anniversary refit of the cruel, cru…AmusingStar Wars: The MusicalThe Walls are Closing In It’s all …DramaMicrosoft Research Launches Code Hunt Game to Teach ProgrammingAnother item for the “when I’m finished …BusinessThe Miller of the Dee; by James Baldwin; read by Dennis JerzI showed up…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. After a primitive, rationalist society mistakes Federation technology for supernatural power, Picard must do whatever it takes to undo the resulting cultural contamination. Fortunately for Picard, that involves lots of talking. A grim scene in sickbay memorably demonstrates that humans in the 24th century can sometimes delay but cannot…
Similar:Why I disagreed with my students who said, "That was easy!" “That was easy!” Today th…Academia2001: A Space Odyssey – Discerning Themes through Score and ImageryIncredibly detailed close reading of the…AestheticsFacebook Announces $300 Million Project, Allegedly to Support Local JournalismOnce upon a time, local newspapers could…BusinessDeus Ex MemoriesI’ve just finished my final training run…CybercultureShould…
Similar:If watching this clip of Punjabi dancers in Ireland doesn't make you happy, I don't know w…https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/13721…AestheticsSmalltalk through masks is hard; I really was glad to see so many familiar upper halves of…If you said hello to me recently and I d…CultureIn August, 2000 I was blogging about poetry, presidential wordplay, home-schooling, online…In August 2000,…
Not fake news. Not the enemy of the American people. “Nobody ever thought a thing like this could have happened,” said the the president at Thursday’s press event. Feb 27: “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” [Narrator: “Cases were not going down.”] Feb 26: “The 15 [documented cases of COVID-19 in the USA] within…
Similar:In major step, UCSF scientists translate unspoken words of paralyzed man into writingThe “neuroprosthetic” technology involve…AwesomeLoved part 1 of Alec Silverblatt's Mon Valley Medium. Part 2 tomorrow at 7. #pptplayt…CultureI’m thinking this is a still from the cringey Season 1 episode of TNG where the natives bu…Academia'Fontgate': Microsoft, Wikipedia and the scandal threatening the Pakistani…
I haven’t done any audio theatre recordings in a while (thanks, coronavirus) and I miss it. Here’s my interpretation (recorded some time ago) of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Nightingale.” The nightingale is considered the most beautiful thing in the kingdom… until a mechanical nightingale wins over the citizens, and the true nightingale is banished. But…
Similar:As Twinkle Twinkle is to Suzuki musicians, so is a wooden shipping crate to CGI modelers. …https://youtu.be/diQF9buONqY I ha…AestheticsWhen You've Already Got a Major, But You Love Books (Seton Hill English) When committee work is fun… making…Academian+1: The Stupidity of ComputersComputers are pretty dumb, but they’re d…CybercultureText Games in a New Era of StoriesClever NYT…