Monthly Archives: May 2005

World Domination, part I

Google is finally going Dashboard. This can hardly be a shock — the only shock is that it is taking this long. Also a little shocking that they aren’t, even at this early stage, opening up the dashboard to any RSS feed, but can that be far behind? It’s an interesting balance right now. If [...]
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Passing the Musical Baton

Uh, oh, Kevin has passed me his musical baton (note the amazing restraint: nary a mention of “rythm sticks”). So here we go: Total volume of music files on my computer: 15Gb (16,109,333,271 bytes) in mp3s on this computer but some of those may be audiobook files. The last CD I bought was: CDs? Were [...]
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Team Blog!

Ed Felton has posted a brief “Lessons Learned” from blogging last semester. I tend to do individual blogs because my classes are too big, but I’m going to try a course blog this summer and maybe in the fall (I have not yet decided). One of the things he did was distribute weekly due dates [...]
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More googley map goodness

Take the Chicago police blotter and run it through Google Maps and you get ChicagoCrime.org. Take a look, for example, at where you are most likely to be robbed at gunpoint, or find a dice game. (NB: Both occur with frequency on sidewalks — see the links under the map.) I wish they had this [...]
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l’homme Danny

Rotten tomatoes counts Jet Li’s new Unleashed as a mixed bag. I thought it was charming. No, it doesn’t rank anywhere near the bittersweet Leon or Femme Nikita, but Li is great in his dramatic scenes and amazing in the fight scenes; especially a sequence in very tight quarters that highlights the talents of the [...]
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Learning as teaching

[This is the second segment of my draft of a learning philosphy. This first part is here: 5 Senses.] I have learned the most about teaching in the judo dojo. Most good judo organizations fit each of my themes for learning, but they are an especially good reflection of how important teaching is to learning, [...]
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Virtual Office Hours

Excuse the video craziness, but I’ve been in a video kind of mood lately. One the one hand, I’m playing with my PVR, cutting old bits of video I use for class into a digital format, recording all my lectures in video for the last class, and at the same time I’m making a bit [...]
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