Tweets- 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 ...
- halavais: I'm quoted in a story in CT Post on PleaseRobMe: http://is.gd/9TIlL . Poor Finn is only 215, not 250. Now I'm going to the park :).
- halavais: Watching the livestream from TEDxNYED: http://www.livestream.com/tedxnyed
- halavais: "That's a low price to sell your soul," (on the LA Times selling out its front page for advertising). http://is.gd/9Nr1f
- halavais: Tonight's *way* overdue grades will be brought to you by @WoodchuckCider .
Monthly Archives: December 2004
Amazon Tsunami Relief
The best use of the patented one-click technology ever (nearly making up for the bad karma of patenting it in the first place): Amazon is hosting an easy way to aid relief efforts around the Indian ocean, using the credit card you already have registered if you are an Amazon customer.
It is crushingly unfair that [...]
6-degrees to adult stars?
I’ve got some good guest speakers lined up for next semester. Unfortunately, having tried and failed to line up a guest speaker from the adult industry, I am now calling on my augmented social network, via my blog. It seems that although there were some initial lines of “people who know people” among my personal [...]
Spam truisms
Chris Lott posts this bit of useful information, relayed via a spam email:
It’s true, Chris that %thismonth% and %nextmonth% are among the best for securing free grant money for just about any purpose.
Indeed! Although, I generally seem to go after those offered %nextmonth%. Don’t they know the rule is “jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but [...]
Address bar knows all
New meme: your personality in 26 links. Go up to the address bar in your browser and put up each letter in the alphabet. Record the resulting URL.
Is this really a map of my unconscious self?
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – [...]
Sucked dry
You will be sucked dry by a leech. I’d stay awayfrom swimming holes, and stick to good oldcement. Even if it does hurt like hell whenyour toe scrapes the bottom.
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die? brought to you by Quizilla
(via Mel)
EPIC 2014
This has already been widely blogged, but I didn’t pick it up in my scan because I misread what it was. The tag is as follows:
In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline.
The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned.
What happened to the news?
And what is EPIC?
This is a lead in to a very [...]
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