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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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Reader’s End is Near

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by futureatlas.com And there is will go soon, beloved Google Reader, something I have used on a daily basis since… the dawn of it’s time (2006, the Cambrian Internet era, when many crawled from the sea and learned to walk the web). It rescued me from 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 […]

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The Exercism of @IAmTalkyTina

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine At 3:18 am june 14, 2013, the annoying presence of IamTalkyTina, documented previously in my confessed creation story, has disappeared completely. An intense Rim to Rim Grand Canyon hike, 24 miles hiked in 18 hours, 11000 feet of elevation gain/loss, did the trick. […]

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<3 Google

They may “Do No Evil”â„¢ but they can “Take Away Web Stuff That Works For No Credible Reason”. There is goes. Bye bye Reader. #GoogleNot4Life pic.twitter.com/2Yt4X7xuje — Alan Levine (@cogdog) April 6, 2013 If Google cannot afford the expenditure or running a web service, how are they funding the raft of experimentation? This is but […]

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Shrinkwr-APP-ing the Web

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by sharyn morrow Will the open connected web as we once knew it be some quaint artifact we will only peer at as we swipe through apps on our mobile devices? Probably not. But still… I was enamored by a nifty technology from Wibbitz that […]