the Register Online has a collection of columns categorised (it is a British paper) as the Odd Body. Reader’s send in questions and they’re answered by Stephen Juan, Ph.D. is an anthropologist at the University of Sydney. the articles that first drew me in are titled “How long does it take the body to…”. The […]
Yet another great entry in A List apart. This one is abut writing and Web design: “Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!” by Derek Powazek. One part I especially liked: It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it […]
Faculty Academy at Mary Washington is over for another year. Had a great time talking with Rachel Smith, Cyprien Lomas, and Jon Udell. These were the headliners, and it was just as good talking with other participants. There’s a blog and a wiki for the event. Today, I headed up a panel session “What’s a […]
The eleventh annual Mary Washington (was College now University) Faculty Academy is scheduled to start tomorrow, May 16, 2006. It looks like yet another excellent lineup of speakers and presentations, and some great guest speakers – Rachel Smith, New Media Consortium, Cyprien Lomas, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative scholar-in-residence, and Jon Udell, Infoworld Magazine. I’m involved in […]
Tagged faculty academyEd Felten in his excellent blog Freedom To Tinker includes a description of yet another problem with Diebold voting machines. This one, like many of the others, is serious. He mentions a report that describes a possible attack that “would allow anyone who had physical access to a voting machine for a few minutes to […]
For the first time ever, the Mathematics and the Computer Science Departments at Mary Washington held a joint reception for students who will be graduating tomorrow. It went really well and was an excellent idea to jointly offer a reception for the students from both departments. Students started showing up a little before 3 and […]
The creek in our back yard Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge […]
“The real struggle will be in finding an appropriate place for ubiquitous computing in our lives” is a quote from Adam Greenfield’s book “Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitos Computing.” That is the challenge. Excerpts are on line at A List Apart. This one came from “Everyware: Always Crashing in the Same Car“
Our good friend Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book “Late Wife: Poem.†A quote from her in an article in the Washington Post accurately described the situation here among her friends: “We’re freaking out here,” said poetry winner Emerson, who teaches at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, […]
Names of the Dead – reported June 2, 2006
From today’s New York Times: The Department of Defense has identified 2,465 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday: FUNKHOUSER, James A., 35, Capt., Army; Katy, Tex.; Fourth Infantry Division. KOLASA, Alexander J., 22, Cpl., Army; White Lake, Mich.; Fourth […]