Monthly Archives: January 2008

Twitter for Academia – academhack – Thoughts on Emerging Media and Higher Education

http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/

Experience of using twitter in the classroom.

BBC SPORT | Football | Africa Cup of Nations | Follow Africa example pleads Reed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/7196061.stm

Fulham technical director Les Reed on why African players have become so skilled and important to European sides.

In the paper chase, hes coming up short – The Denver Post

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_8083336

The way Leo Hill figures it, every roll of toilet paper he’s used since mid-2006 has shorted him at least one sitting.

That’s a lot of tissue.

Acting on an idea from his wife, Doris, the 81-year-old former maintenance worker set out to settle a problem.

“She complained that a roll in the 12-pack would last just three days and the same size in the four-roll pack lasted four,” Hill explained. “I wanted to find out.”

Hill figured he had the time, since there wasn’t much else to do but read or stare at the shower curtain. So he counted every sheet of toilet paper as he used it.

Beatboxing on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/438290

From the page: “Custom Max external using online clustering to map feature vectors of bark values onto frames from movie clips. Inspired by various VJing techniques.”

Or two Edwardian ladies smacking crap out of each other to hip-hop.

10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong | Psychology Today

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20071228-000005.xml

“Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here’s how to think straight about dangers in your midst.”

Tibet group: Prince to boycott Games – CNN.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/28/prince.olympics/index.html

Britain’s Prince Charles will not attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in solidarity with a group that campaigns against China’s human rights records, the Free Tibet campaign said Monday.

That Other “Reality” Called Apple – CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/25/scitech/pcanswer/main3753762.shtml

Well-known among Apple watchers, the phrase “reality-distortion field” was first uttered 26 years ago, according to Andy Hertzfield. On Folklore.org, he credits Bud Tribble, Hertzfield’s manager at Apple at the time, with creating the phrase in 1981 to describe how Jobs can “convince anyone of practically anything.”