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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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Monthly Archives: January 2005
Tagging
While people tend to think that I am an early adopter, I am not. For one thing, I am too poor to be an early adopter. I am naturally pretty cautious — almost in spite of myself. So I am late to the folksonomy stuff. Sure, when they were launched I played with del.icio.us, and [...]
Google Cam Hunt
This is a fun diversion. A posting on Boing Boing notes that this search string in Google ==inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=”== yields a bunch of Panasonic net cameras that are open to the web — most, it seems, are from Japan. Some random ones: * Somewhere in Japan (can’t read where) * Seal TV, in case you wanted [...]
mamamusings sells out (?)
My first prediction of the new year is already on track! Who’s next? How much will Crooked Timber go for? And to whom?
Pew on Blogs
The blogosphere is alight with new numbers from the latest Pew Survey Report, which sought out information on how blogs are being used. Many are noting that they find the numbers depressingly low, but I am shocked (shocked!) that a quarter of American Internet users read blogs. That’s just amazing to me. Great work by [...]
Can’t blame the youth
Better make sure your kids don’t say anything “anti-American,” or you may be questioned as a potential terrorist: Loudoun County sheriffs investigate 11 year-old national security risk. Read through some of the comments there. Several of them suggest that it is completely appropriate to question the parents of a child who doesn’t like Marines, to [...]
San Andreas
I’ve played several of offerings of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and enjoyed them. I recently had the chance to play (very briefly), but more importantly watch people play the latest incarnation, “San Andreas” (the official web site seems dead right now). Of course, San Andreas is the poster-game for those opposing graphic violence and [...]
V for Vendetta