January 2012
18 posts
Bank On: Research Your Community :: Interactive... →
Honeycomb on the Nook Color PSA - xda-developers →
root nook color - YouTube →
Bank On: Research Your Community →
Use the mapping tool to view the concentration of un- and underbanked households down to the census tract level. To view the complete unbanked profile for your community, use the data tool at Research Your Community.
To view map of underbanked households, click on the Add Data Layer button and select “Underbanked” from the menu that appears as you scroll over. Select “Unbanked” from the same menu...
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New Definition of Autism Will Exclude Many, Study... →
Changes to the way autism is diagnosed may make it harder for many people who would no longer meet the criteria to get health, educational and social services, researchers say.
With Blackouts and Twitter, Web Flexes Its Muscle... →
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook who had previously remained silent about the bills, weighed in by late Wednesday afternoon. He posted on his own Facebook page, saying: “The world today needs political leaders who are pro-Internet. We have been working with many of these folks for months on better alternatives to these current proposals.”
Within an hour, more than 200,000 Facebook...
Parody: Fair Use or Copyright Infringement |... →
This information is not legal advice. You should consult an attorney if you have legal questions that relate to your specific publishing issues and projects.
Fair use - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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Jimmy Fallon - Tebowie - YouTube →
Uploaded by CRP95Productions on Jan 13, 2012
Jimmy Fallon creates Tebowie, he does a little parody of a David Bowie song and adds lyrics about Tim Tebow
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined...”
– Neil Postman (via azspot)
What Does Amazon Ask Job Applicants? - eBookNewser →
Flexknowlogy – Defining "Creepy Treehouse" Jared... →
Stein, Jared. “Defining a ‘Creepy Treehouse.” Flexknowlogy . 9 Apr. 2008. 9 Feb. 2009 < http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/ >.
n. Any move to integrate or aggregate new institutional tools or systems with pre-existing tools or systems already embraced by the community may be seen as creepy treehouse, in as much as it may be construed as institutional...
December 2011
6 posts
The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained -... →
In some ways, the most interesting stories in tech for 2011 weren’t the products. They were the companies. Or, more specifically, their chief executives.
There was Hewlett-Packard’s chief, Léo Apotheker, whose software company background apparently left him baffled by H.P.’s hardware business. He killed off H.P.’s promising, brand-new TouchPad tablet only seven weeks after its release, along...
No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org →
These “no copyright infringement intended” messages are everywhere on YouTube, and about as effective as a drug dealer asking if you’re a cop. It’s like a little voodoo charm that people post on their videos to ward off evil spirits.
How pervasive is it? There are about 489,000 YouTube videos that say “no copyright intended” or some variation, and...
Revisiting Flashcards - ProfHacker - The Chronicle... →
A mobile device that’s already flash card sized can be a great solution for drilling. Apps like gFlash do a great job of turning a Google docs spreadsheet into a study aid on the go. This type of app can also be used for some recurrent challenges, like learning student names. There’s also a number of sites that crowdsource knowledge sets, like the popularQuizlet, which has both mobile and...
Welcome to the British Newspaper Archive →
65 million historic newspaper articles are now fully available online in an archive created by the British Library. http://media.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
November 2011
14 posts
eGovernment Services for Federal, State and Local... →
NIC builds official web sites, online services, and secure payment processing solutions for more than 3,000 federal, state, and local government agencies across the U.S.
The Queen's English Society's
PRACTICAL GUIDE TO... →
Introduction
Sentence Beginnings and Endings
The Main Punctuation Marks The Full Stop
The Question Mark
The Exclamation Mark
The Comma
The Semicolon
The Colon
The Brackets
The Dash
The Hyphen
The Apostrophe
The Quotation Marks
The Slash
The Caret
Other Punctuation or Typographic Devices The Capital Letter
Italics
Bold Type
Underlining
The Space
Computers and Character...
Putting the Brakes on Web-Surfing Speeds -... →
BERLIN — State-of-the-art Web surfing, for all of its breathtaking speed, can be baffling. A favorite page gets hung up. A data-intensive application, like playing a video or downloading large files, stutters or stops. Is it the telecommunications operator? Is it the Web site? Is it the smartphone or the computer? Or just a sign of Internet thrombosis?
Krishna Gummadi, the head of the Networked...
The Smart Set: Work It - August 30, 2011 →
The phrase “business casual” was first applied to a style of dress that replaced the traditional suit-and-tie corporate uniform with an aesthetic that is relaxed but not too informal or sloppy. A blazer with no tie and khaki slacks is business casual; a well-worn pair of jeans is not. A tie with a v-neck sweater instead of a suit jacket is business casual; a Hawaiian shirt is not. A pair of...
UTEP Fall 2011 Final Examinations Schedule →
“One expert on plagiarism, Rebecca Moore Howard, worries that the widespread...”
– Escalation in Digital Sleuthing Raises Quandary in Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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How To: Build your pinhole panorama camera →
This opens to a PDF file and shows how to made a panoramic pinhole camera using 120 film. I post it here because this how-to document has a nice, clean layout and cool green accent colors.
How to Send Text Messages by E-Mail - NYTimes.com →
All you need to know is the recipient’s cellphone number and carrier. And remember to keep your message under 160 characters. Just type the number and then follow it with a string of letters and symbols unique to the recipient’s carrier. If the person you are texting has service with AT&T, the e-mail address will be that person’s 10-digit cellphone number (just the number, no dashes) followed...
Boren Awards: Scholarships and Fellowships for... →
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations. We focus on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are critical to U.S. national security, broadly defined, and underrepresented in study abroad. The 2012 application deadlines are: Boren...
El Paso County Website Gets "A" Ranking | KTSM... →
October 2011
16 posts
Water Isaacson on Steve Jobs’s Genius -... →
China and India are likely to produce many rigorous analytical thinkers and knowledgeable technologists. But smart and educated people don’t always spawn innovation. America’s advantage, if it continues to have one, will be that it can produce people who are also more creative and imaginative, those who know how to stand at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences. That is the formula...
10 keyboard shortcuts for entering special... →
10 annoying Word features (and how to turn them... →
The 10 most important things to teach your Word... →
Vischeck: About Vischeck →
What is it?
Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - home page →
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design →
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In Defense of Rhetoric →
Uploaded by ClemsonEnglish on Jun 27, 2011
“In Defense of Rhetoric: No Longer Just for Liars” is a 14 min. video created by graduate students in the MA in Professional Communication program at Clemson University. It explains why popular notions of rhetoric are inaccurate and demonstrates how rhetoric actually produces new knowledge.