Monthly Archives: November 2002

Bucy text

I’m using Bucy’s Living in the Information Age reader in my Media in the Information Age course. I find it to be a very good book, as did the reviewers over at RCCS. However, I’ve gotten the distinct feeling that my students aren’t actually reading the book. I was therefore amused by the following comment: Each separate [...]
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Engelbart explains it all

In a 1968 demonstration (not the kind you’re thinking of), Doug Engelbart told us what the computer would look like in the 1990s: including windows, word processing, the mouse, and telecommunications systems. Parts of a film of that demo appear in a PBS special called “The Machine That Changed the World.” Stanford is now streaming [...]
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New metropolis

Metropolis, last nights rental flick, reminded me a lot of Buffalo. I’ll have to watch the original again: I haven’t seen it since moving to Buffalo. The reason, of course, is obvious. Buffalo’s heyday intersected neatly with the Nouveau movement. The most striking and obvious example is the city hall, but there is also the [...]
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Return something day

Buy nothing day? I’ve observed the holiday since it started. Now I’m stepping it up a notch. I plan on returning an item tomorrow :). Comments on the site are sometimes amusing: why not participate? You can get what you want any other day. Plus you might get laid for being “proactive”. Support the futile “Buy [...]
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California dreaming

It was a chilly snowy morning today, just in time for Thanksgiving. Finn loved it, and would have hoovered up the entire yard if we’d let him. As it is, he now has a belly full of snow and is curled up next to a heating register downstairs. Around the same time, I ran into [...]
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Coming soon…

My Mom pointed out this poster:
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Blog locally, research globally

I would like to see my department at the forefront of open research. At first, this desire came from wanting faculty to collectively manage our school website and keep it from becoming another boring pamphlet. The plan was simple: instead of hiring a webmaster we should instead make it a graduate assistant position, and encourage [...]
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