Reading digg and jumping to Wil Shipley’s blog post slamming Larry Bodine’s essay on why he hates Macs… is hazardous to my attention span. Yes, if you insist on running a ten-year-old browser on your Mac instead of any of the five or so alternatives, some web sites may not work. In other news, if [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Reading Wil Shipley instead of working…
16-Oct-06Dirge of Cerberus: so dark and shiny!
15-Oct-06I think I’m almost at the very end of Dirge of Cerberus, and I’ve only logged about 5 hours of game time. I could be totally wrong though. I’m not cheating and looking up guides or anything. hm… btw… god. Vincent is so hot. (*snickers*) so… time for some Dirge of Cerberus reviews and reviewing [...]
Literacy, technology, Google, and India
05-Oct-06(or titled “part 2 of the “hole in the wall” India literacy experiment post!”) Google announced yesterday that it’s launching the Google Literacy project to help spread literacy and provide resources and lots of other stuff for teachers, parents, mentors, students, and just regular people (with internet access) to help do so. While promoting literacy [...]
Alton Verm’s request to ban “Fahrenheit 451″ came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban “Fahrenheit 451,” a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence Hahahahahaha. coincidence, my ass. so… I’ve been hanging out on reddit.com this morning. can you tell?
“ New Delhi physicist Sugata Mitra has a radical proposal for bringing his country’s next generation into the Info Age” I don’t wish to claim that this shows anything more or less than what it has shown, which is that curious kids in groups can train themselves to operate a computer at a basic level. [...]