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for teh eliot/bellis/pyso peeps.
links for 2008-12-16
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"We’re going to teach them programming. Riiiiiiiiiight. So what do we teach them, then?" Playing connect-the-dots: I think this is part of what might be meant by Shelley's idea of embedding technology into the liberal arts: teaching people who don't think of themselves as "computer people" how to conceptualize the issues of computer technology. Self-efficacy, technological contexts, gateway tricks. Good stuff, and I think this is what us self-taught jacks-of-all-trades end up internalizing. Nice to see it turned into a curriculum.
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"Elaine is 50% addicted." — my film watching history has some weird gaps in it, I know. (also, a few of these I'm not sure about — both the yeses and the nos — and a few I've seen so many times I could probably count them more than once.)
links for 2008-12-14
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"two peculiarclavas, the Cthulhuclava and the Dracoclava" triiiiipy.
links for 2008-12-13
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if you are in So Cal, go tonight! 🙂 (also, this is my new portfolio piece, and a favor for Elizabeth. lots of fun!)
links for 2008-12-12
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The Billie Jean pictured further down is one of my co-workers. (A great graphic designer!) I think, but am not 100% sure, that karaokeoly/Rob is her hubby.
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what I really want is "ride today?" with a combination of temp, precip, and wind speed. I wonder if I could hack it together myself?
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alternatively….(tags: coldfusion)
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may need soon. :\(tags: coldfusion)
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"Parker pursued a thief after he grabbed a collection box of money donated for the library's Family Book Club. In the process, she broke her leg and the thief got away – but not with any money." awesome. sucks that he got away & that she broke her leg, but wow, that's actually pretty bad-ass.
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"The pilot spurred many positive yet unexpected outcomes—especially Flickr members’ willingness to devote great effort to photo-related detective work and their level of engagement with historical images." Old pictures are fun!
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“the trouble with science is that I can’t get at the numbers behind the headlines; what is the sample size, how was the trial run…†omg, totally. have had this experience since C's stats class at UWT. also, I think everyone should take statistics. stats, arithmetic & algebra are the core of life-useful math, IME.
links for 2008-12-11
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cute. network names advertising specials, asking you to buy a coffee (cheapskate!), or maybe one for "that cute girl".
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Apparently the ACTUAL trend is that teens are setting off FEWER bombs. Tales of my youth: my HS/college sweetheart & his best friend made nitroglycerin in a bathtub in their early teens; I knew another boy who almost lost a hand from a homemade pipe bomb.
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need 2 pick something for xmas day game.(tags: gaming)
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"He observed that most people — including those who hold the job — don't actually know what lieutenant governors actually do. But in New York, he said, "we have it in statute… What you do is you wake up in the morning at 6:30 and call the governor's mansion. If he answers, you can go back to sleep."" heh. pretty entertaining akshully.
links for 2008-12-10
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"He observed that most people — including those who hold the job — don't actually know what lieutenant governors actually do. But in New York, he said, "we have it in statute… What you do is you wake up in the morning at 6:30 and call the governor's mansion. If he answers, you can go back to sleep."" heh. pretty entertaining akshully.
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I don't know quite why, but this one tickles my fancy.(tags: funny)
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it's kinda simplistic, but I found it very helpful.(tags: design inspiration)
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"My World of Warcraft account is now more secure than my bank account." I find the business model interesting, too; they're selling the fobs for $6.50.
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why TF does newegg's list look entirely different from shuttle's?(tags: misc_tech)
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ram for ye olde SK41G(tags: misc_tech)
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I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.
links for 2008-12-07
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awesome! via the other Elaine.
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met this guy on Friday at the Sherwood Press open house. (he built her new bindery building.) very nice guy, knowledgeable, and works in an aesthetic that meshes with ours.
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huge friggin' list of classes!
links for 2008-12-04
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"The idea that tight fiscal policy when the economy is depressed actually reduces private investment isn’t just a hypothetical argument: it’s exactly what happened in two important episodes in history." connect the dots to the higher ed funding stories!
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"At my cc, the operating budget for next year is currently projected to be 10 percent lower than two years ago, even before adjusting for inflation. (If you adjust, the cut is even worse.) 80 percent of the budget is labor. (Another 7 is utilities.)" And I imagine that a good chunk of that labor is heathcare. (See the graph in the previous link. Healthcare cost increases & tuition cost increases track each other more than either tracks to CPI.)
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“When the economy is good, and state universities are somewhat better funded, we raise tuition as little as possible,†he said. “When the economy is bad, we raise tuition and sock it to families, when people can least afford it. That’s exactly the opposite of what we need.†Indeed. I've been eavesdropping on some bits of a twitter-conversation about higher ed in this budget environment. (start with wnalyd, who also blogged about it in re:web.)
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consider this a sort of follow-up to my facebook post. (I like the advice of one of the "editor's choice" comments: just have fun with it, for goodness sake!")
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do want. probably won't get around to it.
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need this.
links for 2008-12-03
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super cute! not sure if my sony would fit, tho(tags: photography gifts)
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calculates gas cost for a trip, given a specific car. (it's 50% more for us to take the truck to LA vs the kia, for example!)
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"Meermeer, which is set to debut as an online service and Dreamweaver CS4 extension on Adobe Labs sometime next year, is a cross browser web site testing tool that will be delivered as a service." whoa.
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"So is there any hope to be found on the retirement front? Is there anything you can do to right your listing 401K ship and steer happily toward that blissful retirement horizon? Like so many others, I was curious." Seeing as how her interviewee is president of the "Profit Sharing/401k Council of America", he's pretty upbeat, but I think there's some reasonable points nonetheless. Interesting advice to think of your family health history as part of your retirement planning.
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pretty, altho I want to add the "mark all as read" button back in.
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might make that tonite. (we have extra sour cream.)
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like homemade hamburger helper. mmmm.
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"UPS is putting cyclists on the road across Oregon and southwest Washington to deliver holiday packages." Apparently they also have delivery bikes in Germany.