Tweets- halavais: RT @brainpicker: Trailer for Last Call, the first interactive horror movie where audience can interact with protagonist http://ow.ly/1gzPm
- halavais: Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year.
- halavais: These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1
- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
- halavais: RT @mattthomas: Every time I’m confronted by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s paywall I am reminded of why I switched to reading Insi ...
Monthly Archives: December 2003
Bushido blogging
This quote from an introduction to a copy of the Hagakure brought to mind blogging:
To speak of Hagakure it is perhaps best to state first what it is not: that is, a well-thought-out philosophy, either in the sense of containing a closely reasoned or logical argument, or in terms of subject matter. On the contrary, [...]
Now I’m stable
OK, at least my computer is. I had
SVPER SItE
I know there must be some aspiring 11th century cartoonists out there. If so, be sure to check out the Historic Tale Construction Kit (via boing). Still bored? Try Globulos (via Jeremy.)
A Veiled Bear
Back from the trip and desperately trying to catch up with all of the end of the semester and end of the year things. Just had a chat with my chair about how I should be tenuring rather than blogging (hi, George), so I figured I would be my normally defiant self and make an [...]
Plane sitting
When I was a kid, airports were the coolest place in the world. I’ve always loved the idea of carrying your life with you, and the excitement of going somewhere new. I loved the architecture, the systems of moving people and machines. When did all that change?
It started snowing last night and didn’t stop. I [...]
Googlearchy
I’m sure this has been pointed out elsewhere, but in googling some of the folks presenting at the conference, I notice this paper co-authored by one of the presenters: “‘Googlearchy’: How a Few Heavily-Linked Sites Dominate Politics Online” (pdf). This is good stuff. I’ve only given it a cursory glance-through, but I already know that [...]
Last quiz of the year