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APtBS reviews – links for 2010-05-03

A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head – Album Review – AbsolutePunk.net Guitarist and singer Oliver Ackermann, aside from having the only normal last name in the band, (tags: aptbs explodinghead review) MOG – Discover people through music and music through people One of the many stellar songs from A Place to Bury Stranger’s […]

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15 Things and 23 Things

Here is a list of IPL’s 15 Things along with info on the List of 23 Things. I think I might use these as the basis for the Internet class I’m teaching this summer. IPL 15 Things – IPL Wiki In honor of the IPL’s birthday at March 17, 2010, the IPL launched the IPL […]

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Links about Electronic Portfolios

Our department started talking about using electronic portfolios as part of our outcomes assessment procedures. Here are a few links. Electronic Portfolios: What Are They? (tags: assessment e-portfolios e-portfolio portfolio elearning documentation) Peer Review | Winter 2009 | E-portfolios at 2.0—Surveying the Field (tags: eportfolio)

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A Place to Bury Strangers: Ocean video, PEACE compilation, and a blog posting

I really like the video of APtBS doing their show-ender Ocean. It is very well done and captures some of the effect of being there – but that may be because I’ve seen them do this live. A Place to Bury Strangers – Ocean on Vimeo nicely done video (tags: aptbs video ocean) APtBS is […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers review, Berlin Show, West Coast Tour Announced

Radio Flyer Review: Live: A Place to Bury Strangers, Big Pink “Anyone seeing APTBS for the first time was bound to be impressed – how can you not? “ (tags: aptbs newyork review) A Place to Bury Strangers | May 03, starts at 20:00 h at Magnet Club | berlin.unlike Announcement of concert in Berlin. […]

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PowerPoint Search and All My Faves

Each of these search tools deal with specialized collections. The first gives you a way to find PowerPoint slides on the Web. As usual, you enter a search expression and SlideFinder does a full-text search of its specialized collection of PowerPoint presentations. The second is a broader collection, but it is a collection of links […]

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Solar Dynamics Observatory

SDO – Solar Dynamics Observatory “The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun’s influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by […]

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Giardiniera Recipe

We took Lynn’s spring break to go to New Orleans. Upon Neva’s excellent suggestion we had muffulettas at Central Grocery. That’s a really good sandwich with a topping of Central Grocery’s olive salad, which is modified giardiniera. When we came how we just had to try our hand at making our own giardinieria. We started […]

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Sustainable Farming and Opportunites for Volunteers on Organic Farms

These links deal with sustainable and organic farming. The Cornucopia Institute is especially appealing to me because of its emphasis on pairing farms with local consumers. It is an extension of the notion of Community Supported Agriculture. We belong to FACSAP. The second link gives ways to volunteer on organic farms throughout the world. Cornucopia […]

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Interviews of Oliver and A Place to Bury Strangers, late April 2010

DIY, Korean interview of Oliver at death By Audio “We should put it this way: a place I have ever seen was one of the coolest places” (tags: deathbyaudio interview oliver ackermann) Crack In The Road » 5 Minutes With: A Place To Bury Strangers There is a real raw energy and vibrancy which resonates […]

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