Video of the week
The US Supreme Court goes to the dogs … and I am eager to see just what sort of use the interwebs actually make of the free resources provided here.
3rd ACS Institute — 7-12 December 2015
The formal announcement of the keynote lineup for the next ACS Institute is below. But I want to add an extra plug for the event. To be sure, as ACS Chair, I’m a little biased. That said, I’ve been a part of the first two Institutes — in Ghent and in Klagenfurt — and they […]
Last week’s links
Call off the dogs! We’re back up to a half dozen this week. What goes around comes around? What goes around doesn’t quite come around What goes around could be made to come around What goes around makes pretty pictures Digital music distribution… …and other copyright conundrums
Lost in the flood [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 29 Aug 2007. As I type these words, the lead story on the CNN website is a classic example of “good” moral panic reporting about the “blistering pace” of murders in New Orleans. Nearly one per day this month […]
Video of the week
This week’s video is technically about YouTube trolls, rather than Gamergate. Since it’s from 2012, it precedes Gamergate by a while anyway. And yet it feels just as fresh and relevant (and, sadly, necessary) today as it did two years ago.
I am what I play…
As I mentioned last week, I had the honor of being a guest programmer for about 20 minutes worth of “FutureMixtape“. (Thanks again to Matt May and Jess Havens for the invitation and the long-distance hospitality). Technical difficulties got in the way of the plan for me to say a few brief words on air […]
Grades. What are they good for?
One of my all-time favorite stories to come out of my teaching dates back at least a decade, when I was still living in Tampa and working at USF. It was a lazy Saturday afternoon, and I was having a bite to eat at a restaurant a short walk from my house. It was sometime […]
Last week’s links
Once again, it’s a threesome rather than a sixsome. You feel cheated, I know. I’m sorry. Dance and education Social media and status Monkeys and QEII
Baby’s first theory [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 26 Apr 2007. Ted Striphas is running a caption contest on his blog involving a photo of a baby holding a book by every toddler’s favorite French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze. I’m still working on my entry (how could I […]
Video of the week
The opening of Star Wars meets the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey … but with a train instead of spaceships.