January 2012
36 posts
The greatest books of all time →
As voted by 125 authors…
Ice Wine →
Good ice wine is one of my most favorite things
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!
Technology: it’s not your Mom’s Victrola!
– David Givens, January 24, 2012. Loyola’s genius acquisitions librarian.
Adventures are to the adventurous.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Change is never painful. Only resistance to change is painful.
– Buddha (via mikefrawley)
FOTL presentation
E-books and E-textbooks
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Top 10 Distance Trails - Travel - National... →
Let’s go to New Zealand…
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…)
"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...
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)
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.
Resolutions: Personal Edition
draw more
read more
run more
vegan more
breathe more -deeply-
fret less