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Tweets
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 2 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 3 days ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 4 days ago
- Yeah, yeah. Lady Gaga video. But I like the new Kate Nash: http://is.gd/anfMX 5 days ago
- Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year. 6 days ago
- These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1 6 days ago
- Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg 1 week ago
- RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint. 1 week ago
- I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/ 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Dog Blogging
It’s not really a blog without images of your pet. In order to comply with standards:
Self-history
“I was born in Oslo, Norway, the son of a Volvo factory worker and part-time ice fisherman,†a mock self-tribute begins. “My mother was a backup singer for Abba. They were good folks.†In Chicago, “I discovered I was black, and I have remained so ever since.â€
- Obama’s send-up of Obama, while he was editor [...]
ReWritable: Microsoft and Wikipedia
Microsoft is in trouble for paying for changes in Wikipedia that appeared to place the company’s stance on open standards in a bad light. While I recognize the danger in allowing paid partisans to contribute to Wikipedia, it does raise some questions.
Wikipedia is built on the idea that good material will rise to the top. [...]
The future imagination
“The horse-drawn tram has vanished, and so will the trolley, and some eccentric Berlin writer in the twenties of the twenty-first century, wishing to portray our time, will go to a museum of technological history and locate a hundred-year-old streetcar, yellow, uncouth, with old-fashioned curved seats, and in a museum of old costumes dig up [...]
SPA Treatment
You may have noticed since my blogging haitus that I’ve added the Snap Preview Anywhere plugin. Lots of other people have as well, including wordpress.com. If you hover over any of the links on my site, you see a little thumbnail preview of where the link will take you.
I’m not a big fan of random [...]
Publication: Geographical Distribution of Blogs in the US