Monthly Archives: March 2005

A Bronx teacher who repeatedly flunked his state certification exam paid a formerly homeless man with a developmental disorder $2 to take the test for him, authorities said yesterday. Sigh.

A long time ago, when I was living under the influence of vastly different institutions than I do now, I planned on growing up to be a molecular biologist. I remember my foray into the world of science fondly (and … Continue reading →

Anyone seen this new feature at Amazon: SIPs or Statistically Improbably Phrases? I found out about this phenomenon through a posting this morning at Rageboy. Basically Amazon is using its “Search Inside the Book” feature to find phrases that occur … Continue reading →

This article at the NYT gave me a chuckle. I love all the passive-aggressive techniques people identified for dealing with our modern world. I for one am going to start sending back blank magazine subscription cards–just to force the publishers … Continue reading →

Lately RSS has been on my mind a lot. I’m excited about the possibilites it opens up to us with regard to syndication and consumption of Web content–and I think there is still a lot of unchartered territory out there. … Continue reading →

Thanks to Gardner Campbell for passing along this article about Will Wright’s not-yet-named next-generation “Sim experience.” For those unfamiliar with Wright, he is the creator of the Sim franchise, including SimCity and The Sims. I’m a hopeless addict of these … Continue reading →

This article in the Guardian (which I found via Derek Morrison at Auricle) is an interesting follow-up to my post yeterday. Apparently, the internet may be a suitable replacement for eight (?!) subject librarians at Bangor University. As ridiculous as … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jerry for pointing out this article about the potential for courseware to eventually “replace” the human professor. (I’m not sure where the original article appeared, but Jerry’s got the full text up at Running with Scissors.) I gotta … Continue reading →

I came across this essay by Rober Paterson yesterday, and I’m still making my way through it, but what I’ve read so far is reallly powerful. It’s long, but I highly recommend it. Hopefully, once I’m done and have had … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to a talk we had last week on using RSS at UMW, here’s a little something for my fellow DTLT’ers to consider. . .