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I M A U-M B-N. U R N N-M-Lavailable on flickr

Thanks, Steve Gilbert for the nice gift of one of my first favorite books, CDB! by William Steig, which I sort of cobbled into the name of this blog.

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Just be shear, dumb, web clicking serendipity, I came across flickrStorm:
FlickrStorm is a better search for Flickr!
It works by looking for more than what you enter to find related and more relevant images… Be suprised!

Okay, there are scads of flickr search tools, and it’s not exactly clear what this “magic is”, but they certainly have [...]

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The Dim Screen of Deathavailable on flickr

This is as bright as my MacBookPro gets– this has happened 3 different times, once while I was watching the screen. And not, the F1/F2 keys do not help. The only way I have found to resurrect it is to shut it down for a few hours, [...]

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NMC Conference DVD is Hereavailable on flickr

Cleveland Rocked! So did NMC at the 2006 Summer Conference, and rocks even more since this year each participant gets their own DVD… there are the keynotes, the amazing jam session at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, examples of digital stories from the workshops, and [...]

Long before “Web 2.0″, “social software”, the big web buzzword was “portals”–
A portal, or enterprise information portal (EIP), is a Web site that integrates an organization’s knowledge base and all related applications into a single user-customizable environment. This environment acts as a one-stop shop, or “gateway,” for users’ information and system needs.
So it was [...]

A new book on synchronous learning strategies has just come out– Learning in Real Time by Jonathan Finkelstein, and there is a new web site companion for the book.
Disclaimer: I got to read a preview of the book last Spring, and was asked to write a few remarks for the back cover…

I write less [...]

Just plain fun, and original by Alan Becker, posted on DeviantArt- Animator vs Animation:
An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself.
A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find [...]

Sigh, back to the seven levels of technical hell.
Nope, I have advanced beyond a code ID 10T. Just 10 minutes ago, I am talking on my telephone, watching the screen of my laptop, and it blinks/flashes twice, and the screen goes dim again,
Crikie!
I did a PMU reset, and on the start the screen only flashed [...]

This is for my own “to do” list most of all, but I have a wheelbarrow full of stuff I’ve been immersed in (and 3 more palettes piled high with new things to do), but to be blogged sometime between tomorrow and the end of time….
* A Drupal State of Mind: in line with a [...]

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Searching for the Ideal Streaming Technology posteravailable on flickr

Searching for the Ideal Streaming Technology poster as reprised on the NMC Campus in Second Life (July 2006),

This was a study done in Spring 2006, and a number of NMC members had participated. Authors Dr. Edgar Huang and Clifford Marsiglio from IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue [...]