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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...
Archives
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Robot vids
I have said it before and will say it again: the future challenge will be how robotics is integrated into our society. It seems that androids are seeing a resurgence, which is a bit of a surprise to me. But the most interesting area is biomimicking robots of different sorts. I’ve posted videos before. Here [...]
(MS) Word Blogs?
Yes, there are some neat little tools out there that let you blog from the desktop. But shouldn’t your Word Processor do that? It looks like the new version of Word (out probably sometime before the Apocalypse) will do that for you. And before you make the natural assumptions (crummy code, only integrated with MS [...]
Amazing grace
The lovely and gracious Jia Lin (dead blog?) took my wife and I out to dinner last week. She asked whether I have seen any movies lately, since I hadn’t been reviewing them here on the blog. The truth is that I consciously decided to stop. A review that says that MI3 is redundant and [...]
Congress outlaws email
Had to see this coming: Republican representatives have introduced a bill that would mandate that schools provide a filter that cuts students off from any website that may cause them to “easily be subject to unlawful sexual advances, unlawful requests for sexual favors, or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults,” among other [...]
Web services and reliability
It’s the second time in about a week that I don’t have access to Google Mail. There were two reasons I switched to GMail: I liked the interface and I could easily access from anywhere. Email is my lifeblood, and having it periodically go down is just not tenable. It also makes me glad that [...]
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