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Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
Rumored Apple Tablet and the Rumored Future of Print
The hype machine is cranked to frenzy and the air is smokey after the Apple’s latest burst, Come see our latest creation. The more perspicacious among us are connecting dots»via« between Apple’s product announcement and the New York Time’s...
Mistersquid’s Web-Based Photo Album
In an Age Before Web-Based Student Information Services In 1998, a faculty at the University of Virginia English Department ran into a problem many academics will recognize. A former student of his had asked him for a recommendation. The...
Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text
Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...
Simpleminded
After finishing the major work for a new web page, I discovered the page wasn’t properly rendering on Internet Explorer. I expected some discrepancies because the page layout used some moderately advanced CSS. What I didn’t expect was that the...
Resurface
The two areas which have absorbed my attentions for the last two months (outside the shambles that passes for my personal life) has been my teaching and my writing. This entry is about the writing part of my life, research...
No Ubiquitous Mobile Computing for You
Apparently, iPhone applications will only allowed to run one at a time and never in the background. Whenever a user leaves an application to answer the phone or to open a new application, the last application has to quit.1While this...
Leopard is Incomplete
I lived with Leopard as my only operating system during 28 October - 8 December 2007. Yesterday, I spent a few hours reverting the data on which Apple's Mail and iCal depend into formats suitable for Mac OS X v....
A Leopard Ringtone for iPhone
John Siracusa has an in-depth review of Mac OS X 10.5.1 I was holding off upgrading to Leopard until I read that 10.5 significantly improves the performance of older machines. Apple is legendary for OS rollouts that are faster than...
Main Means of Interface
Before I begin, I hope you will forgive me for being so short of hyperlink references for this entry. I'm in the middle of an article and I can't psychologically justify the effort it would require to hunt down those...
It's 2006. Do you know where your passwords are?
Today I met with one of my M.A. students. She is developing an interpretive model that complicates the gender dynamics Clover details in “Her Body, Himself,” with an aim to offset Clover's emphasis on masochistic and sadistic spectator positions...
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