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June 11, 2006

Summer Film Series Ideas

Here's a couple of film series ideas. Pick an option, try combinations, or suggest something completely different.

Options

Mind your p's and q's

Check out this article from the NYT about employers checking out applicants online.

Some motherly advice - watch what you put on the internet.

Conversely, a question - should you have to watch what you put on the internet?

More motherly advice - put your name on your academic sites so they'll come up for the edification of your prospective employers.

June 10, 2006

Nanotech Sensors Afford Robots A Light Touch

People at the University of Nebraska have announced they've coated robot hands with a pressure sensitive, light emitting film of some kind that renders the sensitivity of human touch. They say that this will enable robots to do many things that human beings do, including medical surgeries.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1974249,00.asp

In a related matter - check out the latest, hottest trend .... video blogging.

http://www.helloworld.com/US/defaultwww.aspx?ID=www

I have GOT to get a web cam.

And don't forget - URLs and grafitti show the bleed through of the matrix.

June 06, 2006

Potluck

Hey, hey, everybody! Sign up for what you want to bring to the potluck on Friday here! I choose...cookies!

Take it away, class.

Scholarship on the Web

Here's a wonderful resource about managing & presenting footnotes and endnotes on websites using CSS.
http://www.archiva.net/footnote/index.htm