January 2012
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The greatest books of all time →
As voted by 125 authors…
Jan 31st
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Ice Wine →
Good ice wine is one of my most favorite things
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ListenBeth A. and this song (my first big piano recital...
Jan 26th
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Kidnapped Dogs and How We Get By in Roller Derby →
~ to reiterate my previous post on the awesomeness of Kate. prettylittlecurls: My kickass friend, Kate/T.S. Helliot of Chicago’s Windy City Rollers, wrote this awesome piece on motivating through hellish derby drills. Go Fury!
Jan 26th
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“Technology: it’s not your Mom’s Victrola!”
–  David Givens, January 24, 2012.    Loyola’s genius acquisitions librarian.
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“Adventures are to the adventurous.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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“Change is never painful. Only resistance to change is painful.”
– Buddha (via mikefrawley)
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FOTL presentation
E-books and E-textbooks View more presentations from Tara Radniecki
Jan 12th
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Top 10 Distance Trails - Travel - National... →
Let’s go to New Zealand…
Jan 9th
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“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space,...”
– Happy 70th birthday, Mr. Hawking. :)  My 16 year old self will always be grateful for “A Brief History of Time.”  (and sorry I dropped my physics major after only two years.  I took Calc 3 and Medieval Lit at the same time.  Swords and plagues win every time…)
Jan 8th
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"E-Textbooks Saved Many Students Only $1" - not...
(See this brief article from The Chronicle.)  I have always thought there was virtually no chance e-textbooks would be less expensive than their print counterpart.  (Remember when they said e-journals would cost less than print?) E-textbooks will be expensive because the only way they will flourish as more ‘traditional’ e-books have is by incorporating dynamic and interactive...
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Jan 5th
Social Networking: The Social Network That Stole... →
Imagine a social network that combines the voyeurism of Facebook with the visual intimacy of Instagram, the real-time newsreel of Twitter with the exclusiveness of a backyard barbecue. (via Gizmodo)
Jan 5th
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“Play is about exploring the possible. In times of rapid change, exploring the...”
– MediaShift . The Pedagogy of Play and the Role of Technology in Learning | PBS (via wreckandsalvage) We don’t have maps for the territory of tomorrow.
Jan 4th
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Resolutions: Personal Edition
draw more read more run more vegan more breathe more -deeply- fret less
Jan 1st
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