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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
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Archives
Monthly Archives: August 2004
Penguin wins
In a last minute dash to switch over the blogs for school to WordPress, I discover that PHP isn’t talking to myMySQL. It’s missing a single file (mysql.so) that should allow this wondrous bridge to happen. All the other bits are fine–perl talks to MySQL talks to Apache, etc. And, though I didn’t do the [...]
Human Powered Helicopter
A UBC group is planning on test-flying the first human powered helicopter, thanks in no small part, I am sure, to the gift of carbon fibre from Boeing. (via /.)
Blogging for Credit
I decided to go the route of creative ambiguity in my BlogClass syllabus: The rise of mass communication in the last century led to the emergence of the professional communicator, and more broadly, the acceleration of professions that are engaged chiefly in symbolic manipulation. The technologies that led to this revolution, including the penny press [...]
Bresson
I was saddened to hear today that Henri Cartier-Bresson has passed away. Even if you are not a fan of photographers, you know who he is, even if you don’t know you know. Take a look at the portraits in this gallery and you will find some of your own memories probably arrived through his [...]
People in Places
I’ve foregone the traditional blogroll, so I’m instead moving it into the entries, with a new blogroll category that will introduce other people’s blogs (OPB). This time around, I’ll introduce you to some of the blogs from people who have interesting to say about technology in human environments, including cities. These might fit as a [...]
Ludd Lives
There’s an interview with Hakim Bey over at The Brooklyn Rail, in which he indulges in a Luddite rail against the internet. Bleyer: But isn’t there something to be said for the subversive use of technologies? Wilson: We believed that in the ’80s. The idea was that alternative media would allow us the space in [...]
Kids with plastic sheeting