3228 Posts Categorized "Blog Pile"

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

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Digging Digg

When Google announced their stupid lame country marrying your cousin backward decision to axe Google Reader there was a mad frenzy to find the next replacement– Pulse! Old Reader! Feedly! NewsBlur! AOL (???WTF) FlipBoard! I made a clear decision. Do nothing. It was March, there was a ton of time to wait for the dust […]

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MOOC Shaker: Totally Subdomained

The latest MOOCs announced not doing it for you? Well, you can shake and stir up a new one at http://mooc.cogdogblog.com. It all started with a tweet question by Audrey Watters https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/349623689488240640 Seriously, if The Rash of Khan is doing it, this is the enlightened way. For was we all accredibly know, he is “The […]

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I Mailed a Tea Bag to Russia

The title is almost Kafka-esque, maybe? No? Well, I actually send a tea bag by old snail mail to someone I do not know, in Russia. This all started with a photo I posted to flickr, showing one of the last plain black tea bags I must have bought for my Mom’s visit in maybe […]

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Dogs on the Internet

Via Jill Walker aka jill/txt perhaps one of the first blogs I started reading in 2000, the PRISM flavored perspective of a once cute cartoon If course,, since 2003, everyone knows I am a dog on the internet. Not much spying needed to figure that out. So projecting forward, what can possibly be the next […]

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Unjamming Oneself

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine You don’t plan for these things. If you did, there would be no challenge to overcome. I would not call myself super mechanically adept, but today was a bit of reinforcement of what I can do when I need to. But the platitudes […]

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Run Away… from your bad ass selves…

Batman and Robin, so scared of the Dog. They cannot run fast enough. How could anyone resist the Batman and Robin Running Scared Assignment submitted by Michael Branson Smith There’s an awesome Tumblr blog created by That Design Bastard filled with animated GIFs of Batman and Robin Running away from sh*t. The cool thing is the […]

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Supersize Edu

Just because I can… I got to thinking about Morgan Spurlock’s self experiment on fast food after reading the ever rapier like Jonathan Rees Sentence First– verdict afterwards: What kind of professor “experiments” in front of tens of thousands of students? Gerry Canavan is right ““ one who already knows the results. And the results […]

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Dad Artifacts

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create was “Take a photo of a personal object in an unusual location” — and I started the day rummaging for objects of my Dad I have around here. This is a tooned photo of the old wooden level that […]