Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Not So Watch Instantly

    January 22, 2011
    Movies / Films / TV, Usability / Accessibility

    Stargate SG-1 season 3 on Netflix watch instantly requires getting the disks for episodes 5, 15, & 20. Why? My best guess is unlicensed for the medium because of an actor. Netflix needs to work on providing a warning when episodes of a television show require getting the dvd so I can plan ahead. Also…

  • D2L Drops Utah Lawsuit

    January 21, 2011
    Corporations, Gov’t / Law / Politics, Learning Management Sys

    Higher education is very litigious. Students sue universities over encroaching on personal beliefs. People who fail to get accepted sue over discrimination or reverse discrimination. Employees claim wrongful termination. Publishers claim copyright infringement. Software companies battling over patents. Equal funding of historically black colleges and universities to non-black counterparts. We are involved in selecting a new…

  • TED Talk: We Are All Cyborgs

    January 17, 2011
    Communication, Hardware

    Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on “external brains” (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves.

  • What's the best place near you to get a pizza?

    January 17, 2011
    Uncategorized

    Go to a grocery store and get California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizzas. Or DiGornos. These are comparable to the restaurant pizza restaurants around here. Thus I tend to go with strombolis or calzones at the pizza places. Ask me anything

  • Who inspires you the most?

    January 17, 2011
    Uncategorized

    Kindness, especially in the face of difficulty. It is something I would like to better emulate. So I watch for it hoping to get ideas to copy. Ask me anything

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. : Quotes to Make You Think

    January 17, 2011
    Quotes, Race / Racism, Religion / Baha’i Faith

    Various Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes my Facebook friends posted today. Strangely enough I did not already have any on the Quotes to Make You Think page. The time is always right to do what is right. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see…

  • Download Facebook Content

    January 16, 2011
    Facebook

    Facebook offers a zip file of our content. The help information explains, Having a copy of your information — whether that is on Facebook or any other service on the web — is an important part of controlling what you share. In addition, downloading a copy of your information may come in handy if it…

  • Timeline

    January 13, 2011
    Books / Novels / Writing, Movies / Films / TV

    The only books I have ever pre-ordered are the ones for A Song of Ice and Fire. The question came up about whether George R. R. Martin has the time to finish the books before the HBO television series catches up to him. In summary he estimates the television series will take multiple seasons for…

  • Closing In On an Earth-Sized Planet

    January 12, 2011
    Astro / Climate / Geo, Nationalism

    Now Kepler has found the much-anticipated first rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet. It did it by staring for months on end at the same 150,000 stars in the constellation Cygnus. Kepler’s 1-meter-diameter telescope, hooked up to a sensitive light-measuring instrument, is capable of detecting the dimming of a star as a planet orbits in front of it—even…

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