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Tweets
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 1 day ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 1 day ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 2 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 3 days ago
- I believe it is presently colder in my office than it is outside. But they have screwed shut my window, so I can't check. 4 days ago
- Chatting with Ron & Jon about "interactive media" on Hangout live. (Still getting a handle on the process.) http://t.co/0V7qKRIF 6 days ago
- Seems that an old blog post of mine, "Does Mitt Romney Hate Noodles" is suddenly getting new traffic: http://t.co/ELSrWuHG 6 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Hello, world
Jasper Lyle Campbell Halavais, welcome to the world. (Lesson one, your dad sucks with a camera.)
A farewell to academia
There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, [...]
Intro Cyberculture Syllabus (Rough!)
So, I somehow “volunteered” to create a new course at the undergraduate level, to be offered (mainly) as a service course–i.e., not to our majors, but as part of a humanities breadth requirement. I’ve appropriated the term “cyberculture,” though I probably mean cyberpunkish. This is a very rough draft–I’ve just shared it with my colleagues, [...]
Professor Wikipedi
A reasonably interesting send up of Wikipedia: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Home Hologram Setup
So, you know what the big news from this week is: the CNN holograms. “Help me Wolf Blitzer, you’re my only hope.” In class last night we talked a little about this, and how hard it would be to get one of these things to play with. Well, I contend, not as hard as it [...]
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