May 2012
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“I particularly despise going to LaGuardia, and generally refuse: it’s like...”
– Piling on the Hate for LaGuardia | The Awl
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“Students today expect us to be entertainers, and while we find the material...”
– Reclaiming the Classroom With Old-Fashioned Teaching - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
I can agree with this. My primary goals for each lecture are (a) find a way to get the students to connect their personal lives/experiences to the content of the...
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April 2012
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“Brian Williams’ daughter goes to an art party. She meets an artist. His...”
– My War: A Girls Recap
Apple should buy Square and Foursquare
jkottke:
Huh, this is an interesting idea: Apple should acquire both Foursquare and Square.
To summarize: after the deal, Apple will immediately become a giant payments company, with an installation base that is expected to encompass half of all mobile devices sold. The company will have the best local search abilities, far exceeding any existing recommendation engine. And due to its enormous...
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Spud scam leaving shoppers Nook-less →
A woman went into Office Max, 1275 Capitol Drive, on April 6 and purchased two Barnes & Noble Nooks for $419, according to a police report. The following day a man went to the store and returned both Nooks; the boxes were covered in shrink wrap. The computer tablet e-readers were put back on the shelf, and a customer purchased one of the Nooks, went home and found the box to be filled with...
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Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st... →
anthonyhoffmann:
From May 2nd to May 4th, I will be at the University of Uppsala (Uppsala, Sweden) taking part in the 4th ICTs and Society Conference. The conference features a fantastic lineup of plenary talks as well as a wide array of submitted papers/presentations (full program here [PDF]).
For my part, I’ll be contributing to the “Philosophy and Ethics of Information: The Good and the Evil...
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Video: Watch Jack White's Entire "Unstaged" Live... →
“You got a reaction didn’t you?” Jack White sang in the White Stripes’ acidic “Blue Orchid” half a decade ago. As ever, White got just that on Friday night as he played a 21-song set at Webster Hall as part of the American Express “Unstaged” series. While he was ostensibly supporting the release of his first solo album, the excellent Blunderbuss,...
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Portishead live in New York City at Hammerstein... →
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UWM Comedy Bash on Saturday features Bob Saget
(I just received a campus email with this subject line….without irony)
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Prediction
Scott Walker will resign and be named Romney’s running mate, providing the necessary Conservative credentials, while also freeing him from the embarrassment of a recall.
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Ask a Humanities Grad Student | The Hairpin →
Here’s what grad school looks like, at a distance, in your daydreams, when you’re in a crappy job:
- Constant mental stimulation. - Filled with people like you, or at least with similar interests to you. - In an awesome college/city town. - A place to find a sweet grad school boy/girlfriend. - Teeming with challenging scholars who will make you a better thinker, writer, and person. -...
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“Some Nickelodeon executives were worried, says Konietzko, about backing an...”
– ‘Airbender’ Creators Reclaim Their World In ‘Korra’ : NPR (via notemily)
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Things often confused with holograms - Wikipedia,... →
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Filter
Can someone please create a Tumblr filter to remove all the duplicated content that Daily What (and others) repost, that I already read on my Dashboard a couple days ago. Thanks.
“This was a beautiful piece of content, the stagecraft was very nice, but there...”
– Tupac ‘hologram’ merely pretty cool optical illusion
“Smith said he wasn’t allowed to talk about the creative aspects of the...”
– Exclusive: Tupac Coachella Hologram Creator Tells How He Resurrected Rapper - Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV
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“One in five American adults doesn’t use the Internet at all, according to the...”
– Pew survey shows 1 in 5 US adults don’t use Internet - The Hill’s Hillicon Valley (via infoneer-pulse)
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