I know that zombie culture is a thing, that in pop culture they signify our fears, dystopia, sense of future worry. But personally I just don’t find them interesting. They are pretty one-dimensional (by design?), they likely are never developed as characters, and they always lose. This was meant more as a conversational poke, not […]
Natalie Bookchin created this interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges story The Intruder (1966) —
 a grim tale of prostitution, fraternal jealousy, and violence against women in which two brothers fall in love with the same woman, share her, and sell her to a brothel. The narrative ends with the woman’s murder and the brothers’ reconciliation.
Yes, kids, there was educational technology before the web. And it was shiny. I was reminded of this particular disc and rummaged for it (a thought vector-ish associative trail) from a post by Mike Caulfield mentioning a paleotechnic system called TICCIT. This was before my time, but when I started as a green horn educational […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by cszar If you thought the last post on Under the Hood of the Thought Vectors Site was a gory on code, maybe click next. But for my own sake, some more write-ups of more recent twiddlings. Got RAND() Post? A trick I have used on […]
UPDATE: One day after updating my code, I got some crappo spam email via the contact form for stupid hand bags. I am done with email forms. If you cannot figure out how to reach me, I am not sure I want to hear from you. Don’t even bother with what follows! Email contact forms, […]
creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by martinjetpack A few weeks (or more) ago Karen Fasimpaur asked me if the new DS106 Assignment Bank as a WordPress theme was reliable enough to be used for the 2014 Making Learning Connected MOOC. I forget her exact words, but something like, “Can you re-assure […]
Dad, This is your long awaited letter that’s taken more than a semester to write. It’s nice to hear you talk more openly in your letter and hope we can talk more in person. I’ve found sometimes it’s easier to write your feelings than say them, but I think it’s better to be able to […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC ) flickr photo shared by Tinker*Tailor loves Lalka When I open my web browser, I sometimes imagine myself perched on the precipice of the edge of the infinity. It was how James Hutton, cracked open what was the 18th century conventional understanding of natural history (my emphasis added) In a […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This is my second or third reading of Vannevar Bush’s essay As We May Think, having done so before in Gardner Campbell’s New Media Seminar. In the spirit of Associative Trailing, I tracked down on the NMC archived web site a podcast Gardner and […]
On the drive home from VCU today, Gardner’s wife Alice was sharing some research she was doing on old music manuscripts, some of which had markups written on them. She asked if we knew where the word “rubric” comes from – as we should, since rubrics are those necessary instruments (to some) for teaching. Well, […]
