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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
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Tens of thousands protest war
The Washington Post has a story on today’s march of tens of thousands of people in Manhattan demanding an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. The NYPD was out in full force, but it was a sunny day, and people were generally in a good mood. I only caught the tail end of the march [...]
NYU salary sucks, apparently
Interesting article in the Chronicle (subscription needed, at this point), indicates that the higher salaries of the top universities often come with much higher costs of living. For example: The index of more than 300 places sets the national average at 100. Fittingly, Normal, Ill., the home of Illinois State University, is right at the [...]
Anti-war march this Saturday
This Saturday, April 29, beginning at noon, there will be a March for Peace, Justice and Democracy in New York City. More information is available at april29.org. Please do not show up at David and Vanessa’s wedding in Lyndhurst (april29.com) accidentally, especially if you have not RSVPed. For the Buffalonian contingent, the Western New York [...]
ADHD & Electronic Media
Mind Hacks points us toward a debate in the UK over whether electronic media leads to attention deficits. The Baroness I’m critical of the way ADHD seems to be diagnosed in many cases as: “not paying attention to things I think you should, and expending physical energy in ways I do not approve of.” I [...]
Best lived cities
Following on my earlier West Coast / East Coast post, I was interested to see Mercer’s Quality-of-Living Report for global cities. Setting New York as 100.0 (Center of the Universe, remember?), it ranks a few US cities as better, including Honolulu (103.3), San Francisco (103.2), Boston (101.9), DC (100.4), Chicago (100.4), and Portland (100.3). Vancouver [...]
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