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Internet roadkill

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Narwal evolution: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=478826628826445&set=a.430872626955179.92765.193162710726173 Mars, just add water: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/a-martian-dream-heres-what-the-red-planet-would-look-like-with-earth-like-oceans-and-life/266791/ Explaining economics: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2845 If you need content, but are bored with Lorum ipsum: http://www.rikeripsum.com/#/ipsum Speculations on storm trooper armor: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/282221985453445120 Colder than absolute zero: http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-gas-goes-below-absolute-zero-1.12146 The form of damnation: https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/286877379886977025 Grammar matters: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=531524520199876&set=a.158139670871698.33824.139729956046003&type=1&ref=nf Tolkien at 125: favorite quotes — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/jrr-tolkien-quotes-our-fa_n_2398210.html Outstanding Continue reading Internet roadkill→

Digital scrapbook IV

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Twitter promo for Times Higher Education

Outstanding anti-smoking video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gV9_P2Oc3U Write like the wind, George R.R. Martin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7lp3RhzfgI Books that shaped America: http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/ The evolution of print: And who says the world is without irony? Dettifoss, Iceland, Prometheus, and Ridley Scott in one video: http://vimeo.com/43258575 http://icelandwantstobeyourfriend.tumblr.com/ Continue reading Digital scrapbook IV→

Digital scrapbook III

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Darwin filing a “Proposed Impact Narrative” for a grant application: http://departmentofomnishambles.tumblr.com/post/25293718496/charles-darwin Texting not only kills, it murders: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail Visualizing writing success through killing off characters: http://www.visualnews.com/2012/04/18/the-recipe-for-writing-success-kill-your-characters/?view=infographic Pebble, the E-paper watch for an iPhone or Android, http://getpebble.com/ Which begs the question: Continue reading Digital scrapbook III→

Digital scrapbook II

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President Obama uses a Macintosh with a plug-in wireless device.

“Lines of Equal Latitude and Longitude,” http://basementgeographer.blogspot.com/2010/11/lines-of-equal-latitude-and-longitude.html This is a cultural artifact of how we draw maps, but still interesting. President Obama using a MacBook Pro to answer citizen questions on Twtter. Note the use of a wireless broadband modem Continue reading Digital scrapbook II→

Digital scrapbook

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Calming manatee: http://calmingmanatee.com/ Want kids to learn science? http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2125 Calvin and Hobbes much later: http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/ http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/12/hobbes-and-bacon-002/ http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/10/11/hobbes-and-bacon-03-2/ http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/10/13/hobbes-and-bacon-04-2/ Pocket Princess: http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/tagged/Pocket+Princesses Methodist humor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuSRinUnIg Galaxy of Passion, a Telenovela. Be honest: instead of going 3D, George Lucas should have tried Continue reading Digital scrapbook→

Online notebooks

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Have you ever wondered how to keep track of all those interesting and ephemeral pieces of trivia that you find on the Internet? The odd photos, strange captions, useful Web sites and such?   You haven’t? Too bad: here are Continue reading Online notebooks→