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Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.

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Captions Gone Bad

or When Looking Back Really Makes You Cringe or Alan does not know crap about art. In my recent presentation on Looking Through The Lens I spent a little time riffing on Errol Morris’ New York Times column Liar Liar Pants on Fire. Morris leads us down the path to show that the question of […]

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ds106 ds106

I found the official ds106 restaurant in Austin- another one for the Illustrate 106 assignment cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog And am thinking we need a version of this for the theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ ds106 ds106, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said ds106 ds106, oh baby Me gotta […]

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I Have a Hat for Yahoo

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I know zero about business, but in some alternate universe where I was teaching a course in business practices, there is an entire syllabus full of materials from Yahoo on how not to be successful. Look at their portfolio of successes with acquisitions, as painfully […]

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Put Yer Mom on teh ds106 radio

Here’s a new assignment for your ds10ers; put your Mom on the radio. I have an unfair advantage that my Mom is (a) alive and (b) a good sport. On her annual visits to Strawberry AZ for Thanksgiving, she has let herself be recorded on how to use her Twitter account or her previous amazement […]

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the d, the y, and the i

Definitions of “purpose” center on reaching a goal, terminal end, desired result, perhaps a mythical castle in the sky. That does not seem right education, we should want always to go farther. And I wonder if we’re trapped too much, especially in citing what’s wrong, in too easily framing education as school. Maybe it was […]