January 2010
37 posts
“It just feels right to hold the Internet in your hands as you surf it!”
– Scott Forstall, SVP iPhone Software—my favorite part of the iPad video
Automated Attendance
Gone are days when classes start with roll-calls. FutureGov reveals how schools in Hong Kong, Japan, India and Singapore have taken the load off teachers by deploying biometric or smart card technology to track students’ entering and leaving the campus. Serving Fung Kai Innovative School’s 700 students every morning are 20 kiosks. As students arrive, they stand in front of the camera to have their...
Computers Should Be More Like Toasters!
fiatluxemburg:
9to5Mac claims that they’ve talked to a few content publishers (magazines, newspapers), and those publishers are claiming inside knowledge about the device. Most importantly, that it’ll be “[nowhere] near $1000, as has been reported elsewhere.” [Giz]
Will have been not wrong.
WatchGibbs wants you to download the White House iPhone app!
Comfort Food?
A combination of ecological and ironic perspectives Wnally demands that we look critically at the way the substance and sym- bolism of food deWnes connections and conjunctions between Af- ghanistan and our own “corner of the world.” And so we return to the thriving industry in comfort food. On September 12, 2001, a Dallas Morning News article described the efforts of Mike Rawlings, president of...
“Inappropriate metaphors of the environment are those that are non- ecological...”
– Princen, Thomas. ”Notes on the Theorizing of Global Environmental Politics.” Global Environmental Politics 8.1, 2008.
Pre-cuddling
If you’re looking for a job in the hospitality industry and have highly refined snuggling skills, some Holiday Inns in Britain might have just the job for you. They’re offering guests the opportunity to have their beds pre-warmed by a member of the hotel staff. Yes, a hotel employee will climb into your bed wearing fleece pajamas, stay there until the bed reaches a temperature of 68...
Design your own iPhone case! →
My dad has had an iPhone for less than 12 hours and already discovered one of the most useful iPhone apps I have ever seen! CardStar stores all of your membership rewards cards. Never hold up the CVS line fumbling for your rewards card again!
If you printed Twitter.
- … the seven billion tweets to date are composed of 104,860,000,000 words, as many as 133,000 copies of the the King James version of the Bible.
- … it would cover 350 million sheets of paper, which is 37 times the number of pages used in bills introduced in the United States Congress since 1955.
- … the paper would weigh three and a half million pounds, the equivalent of 82 school buses...
Remember when google’s latitude was going to be a thing? I was so excited about it a year ago. Ha.
Hey leggy, remember that time you decided to play 52 card pick up and lost all the 2 of clubs in that deck?
So Close … So Far Does anyone play solitaire with a deck of cards anymore? Sitting in front of the fireplace, visiting with family, I shuffled and dealt. After a few hands, it looked like I was going to win. All the cards were up, but I was still one card away from winning. The 2...
This is exciting!
7/8 required texts for my Realism to Modernism class are available for Kindle!
My first real attempt at Kindle-ing in the classroom.
Harper's Index Index →
WatchLiz’s first foray into video-making: look how talented she is!
leggy:
this is for julia and my grandma. and also, for michael
Iron Chef, White House
Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden serves as the battleground on the two-hour season premier of Iron Chef America, which airs Sunday at 8 p.m.
In an episode filmed this summer, three professional chefs and White House chef Cristeta Comerford are welcomed by the first lady and allowed to use anything found in the garden to create their meals.
The chefs - Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse and...
