Sacrificing the joy of learning
Sacrificing the joy of learning: A couple of days later, I came across this article by Roger Schank; blaming the laziness of college professors for the focus on arcane subjects: Universities dictate curricula to high schools to make professor’s lives easier. If everyone takes physics and calculus and most never use it, well, professors claim […]
Read MoreMen Make Dinner Day is tomorrow…
Frequently Asked Questions – Men Make Dinner Day: Q.Is there a NATIONAL MEN MAKE DINNER DAY parade? A.Not yet.
Read MoreElectronic Literature Collection, Volume One
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One: ] Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One ——– 60 works of electronic literature, under cc license.. in one volume. good deal.
Read More3… is a very small number
HowManyOfMe.com There are:3people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name?
Read MoreReality Bites: Worst Game Evar
Reality Bites: Worst Game Evar: This is not a game, it is work. Games are supposed to be immersive and fun, SecondLife fails miserably at this. Most disappointing game ever, waste of downloading/patching time.I don’t care if Linden Labs sees this blog post and finds it offensive in some way, but instead of figuring out […]
Read MoreClifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco, died October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. ——– Clifford Geertz passed away. I first saw it at savage minds
Read MoreNaNoWriMo
so… there is this thing… called National Novel Writers Month. (its november) The goal is to write a 175 novel by the end of the month… that is the goal, 50000 words. I have another project or two to done in the same time… and they amount to about 50000 words. Is it possible to […]
Read Moretemporality
2:15 sl time. reuters sim in second life is occupied by…. hank voodoo and buridan simon… otherwise… it is a wasteland on a sunday afternoon. This brings into question many thing…. temporality and immediacy of media… to start with, but markets and identity on a second level. It just makes me wonder.
Read MoreArchiveGrid — Open the door to history
ArchiveGrid — Open the door to history: ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held inarchives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these […]
Read Moreprototype | DLCMS
prototype | DLCMS: What is a DLCMS? This site is a prototype DLCMS (digital library content management system) built using Drupal, some standrard Drupal modules, and a couple of custom-written modules to add some extra functionality. See the “about” section for more detail.
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