My generals proposal just passed! Woo! Of course the downside to passing proposals is that you have to do the work. Here’s the deal: Three examiners (Judith, Keith, Walter) 91 sources (requires Acrobat) six months to complete I’m psyched. Bring it on!
The next generation of viral marketers is educated. What is facinating to me is that I remember hearing about a similar meme (“hi, we’re a 6th grade class from a flyover state, send this email as far as you can!”) happening a couple of years ago, and generating so much traffic to the school’s email [...]
I’m currently in transition between the owner of a broken heart and the owner of a lonely heart, which is apparently much better.
My social networks professor Keith Hampton was qutoed today dissing the current lot of Internet studies. He thinks that studies showing that Internet use causes people to be lonely and disconnected (e.g. the Pew Internet Study, Nie et al. and Kraut et al.) are “all garbage.” I couldn’t agree more. Just look at their methodologies, [...]
One time when I was drunk, and therefore vulnerable, a group of my friends made me eat a spoonful of vegemite for only $3. Okay, to tell the truth, I proposed the bet, and $3 was the most I could drum up (including a measly $1 from the only Australian contingent, who deserves to have [...]
Scientists are helping coaches, keepers and penalty takers minimize the randomness of penalty kicks, which are the key to success in tournaments. A penalty-taker will try to disguise where he is going to kick the ball. But it’s hard to hide one’s intentions completely. In the fraction of a second before they kick the ball, [...]
I feel like I’m the federation pilot on the verge of shooting my torpedo down the exhaust vent of the almost-completed Death Star… “Almost there . . . Almost there . . . 10 more pages to go . . .” Of course I’ll dud on this one, have to come back around as Luke [...]
Weakest Link host Anne Robinson thinks Americans are dumb, and her anecdotes are quite entertaining (especially the one about George waving to Stevie Wonder). But I wouldn’t go so far as to say that game show contestants are a representative sample of America. Case in point.
Wow. I’m sure that Conan O’Brian is all over this revolutionary technology, not to mention any number of Disney directors, given that the same methods can be applied to animals. If number of animators is limiting the number of movies with talking animals, I’m sure we can look forward to a never ending stream of [...]
A story on OnPoint tonight, a story about William McDonough’s preaching environmentalism beyond recycling. In his new book Cradle to Cradle with co-author Michael Braungart, McDonough predicts another industrial revolution where materials move beyond the “cradle-to-grave” paradigm, where resources are created with their demise in mind. Recycling can perpetuate the life of a milk bottle, [...]