Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
A Snapshot of Indiana Culture
TUESDAY, November 27, 2007 12:17pm EST: At a state-wide conference for university career services people up in Indianapolis, in the capacity of a presenter presenting on “how to connect to the young people using the technologies of the internets”. Lunchtime, post-first-presentation. Have conversation in the buffet line, then, plate in hand, look [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Cartography, Dioramas by nerdmeyr
Friday, November 16th, 2007
Turn Bitmaps into Quality, Easy-to-use Vectors!!!! Like That!
Yeah, stanford boyeees and grrrrls! Thank yous!
Vector Magic!!!
All online, and a great way to turn photos, line art and whatever into fully-editable, infinitely-resizable vector-based images. From my initial tests, it works much much better than the ol’ Trace feature in Flash. No more “I created this image using a penknife and a block of basalt [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Cabinet of curios by nerdmeyr
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Poorly Playing Violent Video Games Makes You More Sympathetic to the Plight of Suicide Bombers?
I never thought in a hundred-bazillion years I’d be quoting from Wired (as in I’ve been too old and cranky to want to put on a cheerleader’s uniform about all the Kool Rad New Teknology since I was about 22), but here I am, putting down a link to a posting from somebody writing for [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in the New World Order by nerdmeyr
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Who Eats Kippers At Work?
And then puts the opened, half-eaten can in the teeny-tiny dorm refrigerator for two solid weeks? Just because the word ’snacks’ appears on the labeling does not put a food item on par with say, a diet coke or a bag of chips. I really need to go check out what’s available at the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Cabinet of curios, Dioramas by nerdmeyr
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Kid Nation
Despite my hopes for something more along the lines of Battle Royale, Kid Nation is proving totally engrossing. For those who haven’t yet tuned in, the premise is: 40 kids, ages 8-15, alone for 40 days in a desert ghost town (an old movie set). At first I was really disturbed at the degree to [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Curation by k
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
A Week In Review, Harper’s Style
It was heard that every occasion of eating bacon increases one’s chance of cancer by 15%; before knowing this, Amy and Kathleen ate some and enjoyed it thoroughly. Kathleen discovered crescent-rolls-in-a-can and declared them to be genius in design, implementation, and result. Kathleen was generally regarded as genius when she made crescent-rolls-in-a-can WITH nutella [...]
