Polar Bear in No Snow

To Fly Free in Space

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:46:44 -0400

To Fly Free in Space
Credit: STS-41B, NASA

Explanation: At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out…

Passing the Sniff Test

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:31:30 -0400

Passing the Sniff Test:

I found a discussion over brunch entertaining.

Apparently women sniffed teeshirts worn 2 days by males. Women preferred the shirts belonging to genetically dissimilar men. These are the good men…

Watch Out For Sinkholes in Georgia

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:31:30 -0400

Watch Out For Sinkholes in Georgia:

Back in 1994 a neighbor city, Albany, GA, experienced massive flooding. For a couple months after the waters receded, sinkholes opened up under houses and cars driving along roads in the formerly…

Tracking Specific File Use

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:36:04 -0400

Tracking Specific File Use:

CE/Vista Reports and Tracking displays summaries of activity. If an instructor seeks to know who clicked on a specific file, then Reports and Tracking falls down on the job.

Course Instructor can…

Site Changes

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:36:02 -0400

Site Changes:

Blog

Upgraded to the Tarski 2.5 theme. Previously I was using the Tarski 2.4.

One of the reasons I like Tarski is the opportunity for a custom header image. Something I can use of my own….

"For just pennies a day"

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:56:36 -0400

"For just pennies a day":

There are so many things you can purchase or accomplish for just pennies a day. You can get lots of interesting magazine subscriptions, or a good life insurance plan—no physical required. You can…

TED Talks:Web as random

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:01:23 -0400

TED Talks:Web as random:

In the first video, The Web as random acts of kindness, the characterization of the founding of the Internet here is a group of high school teenagers working in their garage to altruistically to…

Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too Late

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:55:34 -0400

Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too Late:

As health care workers in the U.S. gear up for the flu season, they facea paradox: on the one hand, they will have too little vaccine against the novel influenza A (H1N1) strain to protect the…

_TRD3257: Leann

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:03:38 -0400

_TRD3257:

Leann

Strobist Meetup

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:11:17 -0400

Strobist Meetup:

Back in July I mentioned Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk. A number of people from the Athens Flickr Meetups group showed for the August walk at the State Botanical Garden of…

Links for 2009-09-21 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:11:17 -0400

Links for 2009-09-21 [del.icio.us]:

Point, Click, and Cheat: Frequency and Type of Academic Dishonesty in the Virtual Classroom

Reader Photo Gallery: Crazy Dust Storm Turns Sydney Red

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:48:09 -0400

Reader Photo Gallery: Crazy Dust Storm Turns Sydney Red:

Shared by Ez
Poor Ben.

Dust storms swept over Sydney Wednesday morning, turning the city sky so red, some residents thought they’d left the blue planet.

“It was like waking up on…

Geisha Renee

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:52:32 -0400

Geisha Renee:

Geisha Renee, originally uploaded by Ezra F. My favorite of the series. Renee was patient with me, which I appreciate given this was my first time playing with this setup. I was borrowing…

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:00:10 -0400

Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic (March 2003)

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:13:54 -0400

Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic (March 2003):

The habits and needs of a little-understood group

Healthcare

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:30:40 -0400

Healthcare:

Lorenia posted a funny video about the United States health care system being ranked #37. I briefly looked at The world health report 2000 – Health systems: improving performance. It is a…

TED: Stroke of Insight

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:30:30 -0400

TED: Stroke of Insight:

The first couple TED videos I watched didn’t impress me. A few weeks later, I saw this post from Sam about the top 10 TED videos. Sam is one of those people who reserves good for the truly special…

Antibiotic resistance clue found

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:46:31 -0400

Antibiotic resistance clue found:

US scientists have uncovered a defence mechanism in bacteria that allows them to fend off the threat of antibiotics, raising the hope of making existing drugs more effective.

Online Intimacy

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:10:33 -0400

Online Intimacy:

All too often I follow the breadcrumbs wherever they lead me online. So I stumble across some pretty random stuff. Thus why my RSS reader contains way too much stuff to reasonably read. (That…

Vase

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:10:32 -0400

Vase:

Vase

Originally uploaded by Ezra F

Eat at Mama’s Boy. The food is better than this picture.

Polar Bear in No Snow

To Fly Free in Space

Passing the Sniff Test

Watch Out For Sinkholes in Georgia

Tracking Specific File Use

Site Changes

Blog

"For just pennies a day"

TED Talks:Web as random

Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too Late

_TRD3257: Leann

Strobist Meetup

Links for 2009-09-21 [del.icio.us]

Reader Photo Gallery: Crazy Dust Storm Turns Sydney Red

Geisha Renee

Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic (March 2003)

Healthcare

TED: Stroke of Insight

Antibiotic resistance clue found

Online Intimacy

Vase

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