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Ave Maria, Florida

CNN has a story about Ave Maria, a private community based on Catholic ideals, in which shops will be barred from selling porn and doctors will not offer abortions. It’s the brainchild of Domino’s pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan. I suspect pizza will be widely available. (Somewhere in the back of my mind: “In Domino’s [...]
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Price perfection

One of my gred students, Kevin Lim was interviewed for a story in the Buffalo News about pirating Black Friday sale fliers for the internet. You may have seen the earlier story in the New York Times. I was interviewed for the story as well, and it was actually a longish interview. This is one [...]
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Coding Ships

Though as a Democrat (yes, I got fed up with the local Greens and besides, I was hoping I could have an impact on the primary process), I should be scandalized by this, my inner Neal Stephenson and my inner Monty Python are both loving the idea of a H1B cruise ship, hovering (possibly) in [...]
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Google Video

More beta fun from Google (yes, I am becoming a Google fanboy): Google Video (Beta). If you produce a video, upload it, and they will index it and allow you to sell it. Cool. I have a project coming up. I had planned to leave it openly available, but now I wonder if maybe I [...]
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Podhatin’

Remember the classic 1984 Apple television commercial. Ever since, Apple has built its identity around outsider computing. Has the iPod changed that? A send-up of the 1984 ad (quicktime), ends with the tag: In 2004 Apple Computer sold 8.2 million iPods. Remember 1984, when we said we wouldn’t be like “1984″? Yeah… well… whatever.
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Google Maps Walking Tour

Tim Bray posted a link to Udell’s Google Maps walking tour of Keene, NH, in case anyone (like me), hadn’t seen it. This is really very cool: it’s what happens when you allow others to co-design your service. I don’t know how many of the current MI students read my blog (I suspect very few), [...]
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  • Tweets

    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
    • Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
    • This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
    • @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. 3 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... 3 days ago
    • @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
    • @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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