It’s a hot, humid August day so a snow scene is very welcome. The top 100 e-learning tools gathered through a survey for the top 10 tools conducted by the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. This collection has been mentioned else where, but it seems to me to be worth noting, so I’ve hopped […]
An entry in John Battelle’s Search Blog mentions a white pages or people search service that is uncluttered, easy to use, is comprehensive, and also employees some Ajax techniques to improve the user interface. Its name is Pipl, http://www.pipl.com. I used it to find the address and phone number of an acquaintance in Fredericksburg who […]
One of the podcasts that I’ve signed up for and occasionally listen to is TED talks. Very cool. The one I was listening to today is “Three minutes of fast-paced, whip-smart wordsmithing from spoken-word artist Rives, who has some unconventional ideas about how the Internet should be run. (Recorded November 2006 in New York, NY. […]
I realize I’m coming a little late to this, but today I came across a very nice video at YouTube, “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE, by Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Very nice work. — U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3129 Reported U.S. […]
A friend who is an associate professor of linguistics at University of Mary Washington sent me a link the the video “Introducing the book,” http://www.devilducky.com/media/57946/. Now other colleagues are sending me a link to it. The video is very clever. The lines I like the best is “Open it? If it had been that straight […]
The second instance of interesting Web sites from our friend Peter Squire: Top Articles for the week Happiness 101 That was 2006 – a review of the year’s top stories and pictures http://www.nature.com/news/specials/2006/index.html Most Important Science Stories of 2006 A Robot in Every Home http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=9312A198-E7F2-99DF-31DA639D6C4BA567 Fun stories of the week Becky award (people or […]
Fredericksburg.com created a really neat feature for the holidays. The page Holiday Songs contains the results of ‘people-on-the-street’ video vignettes singing their own versions of several Christmas songs and carols. It is funny, heartwarming, and am interesting collection of people singing without reservations; being themselves. —- In Iraq: U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 2957 […]
Browsing reddit this morning, I came across a link that included some visual proofs, displayed below. They are very clear explanations of some mathematical identities. I started looking around for some others. Here’s what I found: Visual Explanations in Mathematics Wikipedia Commons entries for the Pythagorean Theorem the two interesting looking books by Robert Nelson […]
I came across wikiHow through the entry “How to Reduce Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions” that was featured on Google homepage. It interesting to me because of the way a wiki is being used to provide how-to information. You can create an account and contribute in wiki-style to the entries. The pages each carry a discussion […]
Botnets
Ed Felten has yet another interesting post Why So Little Attention to Botnets? in his blog Freedom to Tinker. Ed does a good job explaining what a botnet is: ‘In this context, a “bot†is a malicious software agent that gets installed on an unsuspecting user’s computer. Bots get onto computers by exploiting security flaws. […]
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