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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: November 2003
Spam hurts enhansement’s rep
Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business. - CNN.com – Male enlargement ads prompt spam rage – Nov. 24, 2003 Does this need further comment?
When PCs were easy
I’ve grown soft. I fully expected to, in a single evening, update my motherboard and CPU. I wasn’t doing anything crazy: I got an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, with new memory and an AMD Barton 2500+ CPU. And it doesn’t work with my newest hard drive. It will boot, it runs, but I get a [...]
(Singing) Voice Synthesis
An article in the New York Times (Could I Get That Song in Elvis, Please?) introduces a new technology called “Vocaloid” that makes use of a singers performed phonemes to replicate his or her voice. This process is referred to as making voice “fonts” and while they only have two so far, the article suggests [...]
What are all those books about?
I begin my collection of “frequently asked questions” with this one, not because it is so frequently asked, but because it is asked far more often than I would expect, and it so often leaves me without an answer. “Stuff I’m interested in” is probably the most accurate, but also the one that seems the [...]
Remaindered Links
* Kurt Amazing streetchalk art by Kurt Wenner (via MF.) * New Ph.D. in Computation, Organizations and Society at Carnegie Mellon (via Wellman) * On using Baysian categorizors to help sort blogs (via Udell.) * Map of US indicating sources of Dean contributions (via Froomkin.) * “Learning in weblog networks” (via Efimova.) * LA County [...]
World news attention
Hard not to love this. Ethan Zuckerman has a system that watches Google News (among others) for mentions of the countries of the world, and then plots their frequency on a map of the world. This is a very simple, and very clever, thing to do. I was ready for some cringeworthy wild assumptions about [...]
Computer genius?