in defense of the digital humanities, open courseware, and online publishing

This is one of the best cases I’ve seen for the Digital Humanities, open courseware, and online publishing. It demonstrates the need for universities, and especially tenure-granting committees to consider digital media as equally worthy of consideration during tenure reviews as scholarly articles printed on paper in peer-review journals and monographs published by traditional academic [...]

want to do a phd in the humanities? watch this first.

if you ever wanted to do a phd in the humanities, watch this first. i have never viewed anything as true as this. now if you’ll pardon me, i’m off to lament my wasted life… ;-)

a-rod finally helps texas reach the world series

i love this story from the onion. as a red sox fan, i couldn’t help it. :D ARLINGTON, TX—Ten years after signing a record $252 million contract to play baseball in Texas, third baseman Alex Rodriguez finally delivered for the Rangers by leading the franchise to its first-ever World Series. “A-Rod came up big for [...]

rainy with a chance of genitalia

this one is the ultimate weather man fail! possible captions: rainy with a chance of genitalia this gives new meaning to the phrase ‘evening showers.’ man, west texas is hung ok, who let jim west do the weather graphics this week? so THAT’S what west texas thinks of mexico (i could do so much more [...]

my new favorite political nutjob: jimmy mcmillan

i have discovered my new favorite political nutjob. his name is jimmy mcmillan and he is the candidate for new york governor from the (i kid you not) ‘rent is too damn high‘ party.

mesopotamians by they might be giants

Most parents are fearful of what their children might find on the internet. So when my daughter, Talitha, came and told me that she had a question about a strange video she had found on the internet that had some strange names she had never heard before, I was preparing to tell my daughter how [...]

On Using Digital Course Material to Publish Textbooks

There’s an article in the October 8, 2010 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed by Jeffrey R. Young entitled, “As Textbooks Go Digital, Will Professors Build Their Own Books?,” that discusses using digital courses to build textbooks. Young states: McGraw-Hill Higher Education plans to announce its revamped custom-publishing system, called Create, with an emphasis [...]

Gmail Introduces New Priority Inbox Beta

Google is introducing a beta version of “Priority Inbox” for Gmail (because “Priority Mail” is already taken). Like most things Google, it is a simple, but welcomed enhancement to Google’s free email solution. Google already has an effective spam filter. “Priority Inbox” works by using a new, teachable algorithm that determines which of your remaining [...]

the double standard

The sign of a modern, intellectual society is not its tolerance for free expressions of speech, but the consistency by which it tolerates various forms of free speech. Likewise, the sign of a sound faith in a credible system of beliefs is the manner in which it responds to criticism. Those that respond violently to [...]

(old) spice up the library

i love digital media. i love instructional technology. in fact, i should love both since i’m the instructional technology coordinator at ucla, and i get paid to love instructional technology and keep my eyes glued to three monitors at all times scanning the web for new ideas. however, few know that my dream job has [...]

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