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Tom Sawyer Medicated?

I’m thinking of writing a depressing short story entitled “Tom Sawyer Medicated.” This because of a terrific short essay “The Attention Span Myth” by Virginia Hefferman in last Sunday’s NYT magazine section. She asks us to consider the following question: So how did we find ourselves with this unhappy attention-span conceit, and with the companion [...]

Damn Interesting

Had to share. Just to prove the point that the museum world has its share of “spanners”, see this article. The title of the article says it all: Professor Is Getting a Camera Surgically Implanted in the Back of His Head. Yes really. Bilal will undergo surgery to have the camera implanted in coming weeks [...]

20 Things

Here’s a nice little web book explaining the Internet facts of life. “Twenty Things I Learned About Browers and the Web,” from Google’s Chrome team.

Congress’s latest awful tech-policy idea

The Net-Censorship Bill is moving too smoothly through Congress. The whole story from the Washington Post, here.

The Perils of 3D Printing….

More things for worriers to worry about.  Here is an interesting article from last week’s PC World  by Grant Gross entitled “3D Printing May Bring Legal Challenges Group Says.”

Horizon Project Navigator – Free Webinar – Tuesday Nov. 16

If your job requires you to generate reports or explain new technologies to others as part of your job next week’s free webinar is a must do: MIDEA (http://midea.nmc.org/) Introduction to Horizon Project Navigator workshop will be held Tuesday, November 16 at 11am PT / 1pm CT Horizon Project Navigator is a dynamic social media [...]

Mother as Curator

[Note:  This post has little to do with technology.  The original title was "The Common Application" but I decided that sounded a little like a bait and switch.] Tonight my only child, my son, applied to college.  There was no search for an envelope, no rummaging for the right postage, no rush to the Post-Office [...]

Father of the Bride

In my misspent youth I was a DJ, I had a mobile rig with my mate “Lucky Eddie” and weddings were our core business. We got a booking once for a really big event and we wanted to make it very “exciting”. For some reason “exciting” translated to “use theatrical explosives”. As you can imagine, [...]

Now that’s collaborative: hitRECord

I’m gonna let Joseph Gordon-Levitt speak for himself: http://hitrecord.org/reel