Thursday, December 18, 2003
:: Wish list item #3 ::
Okay it's really geeky and everything...
...but how do I get one of these t-shirts?
And if I find one and wear it out shopping, anyone who heckles me the way they did Doc, I'll take them out!
... or at least bitch to the store manager.
Okay it's really geeky and everything...
...but how do I get one of these t-shirts?
And if I find one and wear it out shopping, anyone who heckles me the way they did Doc, I'll take them out!
... or at least bitch to the store manager.
:: Participatory media ::
Rebecca Blood has recently published another great article about blogging in The Guardian.
She calls blogging a new form of media, something she calls "participatory media".
I think I'm going to borrow this term for my SOCI498 paper - should fit in well with what I'm looking to do.
Rebecca Blood has recently published another great article about blogging in The Guardian.
She calls blogging a new form of media, something she calls "participatory media".
I think I'm going to borrow this term for my SOCI498 paper - should fit in well with what I'm looking to do.
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
:: Google = "The Brain" ?? ::
I hadn't really worried much about my own googling habits until I read this article in Business Week.
Dress me up and call me Pinky, I guess. I hadn't ever thought of Google in this light.
[ ... and for those of you who might otherwise have missed my TV pop culture references herein, check out this site in order to get it... yeah I'm a fan...]
I hadn't really worried much about my own googling habits until I read this article in Business Week.
Dress me up and call me Pinky, I guess. I hadn't ever thought of Google in this light.
[ ... and for those of you who might otherwise have missed my TV pop culture references herein, check out this site in order to get it... yeah I'm a fan...]
:: Introducing... ::
There's a new blog out there called The Loom that might be interesting to keep an eye on for people like me interested in all things scientific.
The Loom's creator/blogger is a guy by the name of Carl Zimmer, who, according to the New York Times Book Review is "as fine a science essayist as we have"
There's a new blog out there called The Loom that might be interesting to keep an eye on for people like me interested in all things scientific.
The Loom's creator/blogger is a guy by the name of Carl Zimmer, who, according to the New York Times Book Review is "as fine a science essayist as we have"
[ Found via Corante ]
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
:: Excellent RSS Resource ::
Found this RSS tutorial while searching the net for information on RSS and XML content syndication behind a corporate firewall.
It's well-written and clear. Doesn't quite answer the question I posed to Google but it is still useful nonetheless.
Found this RSS tutorial while searching the net for information on RSS and XML content syndication behind a corporate firewall.
It's well-written and clear. Doesn't quite answer the question I posed to Google but it is still useful nonetheless.
Monday, December 15, 2003
:: Interesting read ::
I'm including a link to this Wired article about autism and genius because...well...it's an interesting read.
I'm including a link to this Wired article about autism and genius because...well...it's an interesting read.
[If this keeps up, I'm going to need to create a CSS trick just to reference things I find through Rebecca's Pocket.
:: Memories of childhood Decembers ::
Interesting how strongly I remember the date December 1 from my childhood. I guess because that was always the day when, after a shopping trip to Zellers, my mom would bring home a big, Christmas-scened multi-doored Advent Calendar and put it up on the fridge.
The calendar had little chocolates behind each date's brightly-illustrated door and I looked forward to going home from school each afternoon so that I could carefully tear open up the day's door to see what the shape was for that day's chocolate piece. My favourite was always the angel, which usually came around the 15th. (Odd thinking of that now, considering how devoutly religious I was...then.)
Leslie Harpold obviously remembers this excited feeling of discovery -- her online advent calendar, while not containing any chocolate pieces, still gives you the same feeling.
Interesting how strongly I remember the date December 1 from my childhood. I guess because that was always the day when, after a shopping trip to Zellers, my mom would bring home a big, Christmas-scened multi-doored Advent Calendar and put it up on the fridge.
The calendar had little chocolates behind each date's brightly-illustrated door and I looked forward to going home from school each afternoon so that I could carefully tear open up the day's door to see what the shape was for that day's chocolate piece. My favourite was always the angel, which usually came around the 15th. (Odd thinking of that now, considering how devoutly religious I was...then.)
Leslie Harpold obviously remembers this excited feeling of discovery -- her online advent calendar, while not containing any chocolate pieces, still gives you the same feeling.
[Found via Rebecca Blood]
