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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: September 2006
The muppet matrix
In case you haven’t already seen it. Oh, and this is student work I can really dig. Are you diggin it?
More “found data”
See, I said I would post soon! Add this to the AOL leak: Someone ran across a collection of MySpace passwords, badly hidden on a phishing server. Again, a really interesting dataset (and no, he isn’t making the data available!), but tinged by the absolutely unethical and illegal method of collection. Of course, you could [...]
Quinnipiac Shame?
I just sent out a note on the Association of Internet Researchers list advertising our new faculty positions at Quinnipiac. I was a bit surprised to find, in Google Mail, a contextual ad linking to Shame on Quinnipiac. (I wonder, by the way, if use of the typeface is a trademark violation in this case.) [...]
Best… war… ever
Great trailer for The Best War Ever. “Instead of listening to some of the best experts in their own government, they plugged their ears, closed their eyes, drank the Kool Aid, and marched the United States into a swamp.”
The world in a laundromat
Lot’s of people are posting about 9/11 today. I’ve already posted my thoughts on other occasions. It’s sad, but there are plenty of sad things happening right now that deserve our attention. So, rather than add my own voice, I’ll instead point you toward Torill Mortensen’s post on folding laundry, which concludes: Today was interesting. [...]
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