Category: x-personal

Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..

Some Friday links

Just a few links I wanted to share today:

Dan Ladd – Moulded Gourds:

This is really cool.  I’ve always been interested in land/earth art and this blends all that and gardening into one.

Who Writes Wikipedia? (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought):

Some interesting thoughts on the writers of the world’s largest encyclopedia and how to continue to make the system work.

YouTube – Christmas Day at Doctor who’s:

Funny, that’s all I can really say.

Finding confidential documents with Google:

I find it fascinating the amount of information that’s available to the public on the web, even if you go and tell your employees “Don’t make this public stupid!”

Penn State Behrend>News>MythBusters co-hosts will open 2006-07 Speaker Series:

My father-in-law and I went to see them last night.  I took several pictures, and I’ll do a full write-up later.

tagged by sandboxdiva

the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book. Beat it against the desk until it submits.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people

“As the information age made authoritarian regimes and their associated command economics untenable, so the advent of knowledge-based societies will make command education obsolete as well.  We simply will not be able to carry out our most important task – education – without effecting in it, too, an equivalent democratic shift: making students into partners.
Introducing market forces and participatory democracy into education is an even more daunting challenge than converting communist autocracies to free market democracies.  At least the communist world had the United States and Western Europe to look to as models, albeit imperfect ones.”
– Somebodies and Nobodies, Robert W. Fuller

Free book from Bookcrossing, still haven’t read it yet.  Gill skimmed it and proclaimed it crap, so it’s towards the bottom of my pile.

Current Mood: awake

GNR8 new/s: jelly light:

I’ve been looking for this light for a couple of years now.  I found it while I was working at Lightmakers, and we even specc’ed it out for a client’s indoor pool, but by the time I left we still hadn’t been able to track down the manufacturer.

Edit: Found the main website: http://www.jelly-light.com/

Old projects

http://www.hotchkiss-lighting.com/dracula/

I’m actually pretty proud of this.  I was taking a course in literary hypertext at the University at Buffalo in the spring of 1999 and decided to present Dracula online, in it’s entirety, in a new way for my final project.  Back in the day I used to receive one or two e-mails a week, asking permission to use my site in a school paper or even as course material.
It’s been offline for a few years now, but now it lives again.

Current Mood: 🤔nostalgic