Sent by a friend, who would rather we blog more on Syria. Or WMD. Or development. Or disease. Or, well, just about anything but.....
Sent by a friend, who would rather we blog more on Syria. Or WMD. Or development. Or disease. Or, well, just about anything but.....
Last week I purchased a Nintendo handheld (on steep discount) for the express purpose of playing Okamiden. Okami is one of my most favoritist games evah; even though Okamiden is basically more of...
Editor's Note: This started off as two bullet points, but it’s morphed into a surprisingly lengthy piece about Bikeshares. Blame the easy availability of both picturesque bike rides and cheap wine...
I spent most of the past week in Kansas City, MO while my daughter competed at the Tumbling and Trampoline National Championships. If you must know, she did fine. I'm most proud of how she handled...
I should probably be wary of taunting the coming moopocalypse, but, as everyone knows, I laugh in the face of obsolescence. So, without further explanation, here are my top ten reasons for MOOCs: 10. The "sage on a stage" isn't just dead... she's undead and in high-definition. 9. Web 1.0 monetized those eyeballs like nobody's business. 8. When your acronym is homophonous with "mook" what could possibly go wrong? 7. MMOCs would probably be too much fun to count as college-level education. 6. MIT and Harvard won't rest until they've achieved total world domination... and only Stanford can...
Reader Anjali Dayal sends along this image from Foreign Policy (since corrected): Presumably Mr. Putin has not yet overturned Roe v. Wade. (On the other hand, I am reminded of this Onion classic.)
Via Ari Kohen, a visualization of the nearest 100,000 stars in Sol's neighborhood. Sometimes blogs should just share cool stuff, no? Can't leave all that stuff to other social-media platforms.
I'm now on my sixth day of the sick, so in lieu of a post that requires much thought: Yay for USB-powered microphones and pop filers. The first will make it much easier to record podcasts at conferences. The second will make it much easier to record podcasts. Lyra heartily endorses the following: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy and The Squire's Tale. Lyra and I are having a great time playing Tales of Monkey Island. A new wireless router for the in-laws? The gift that keeps on giving. And finally:
The Onion reports on a story of profound importance to readers of this blog. Well, go read!
We prepare to pillage for candy! No one got my costume's reference. So sad. Happy Halloween!
 Now THAT is Korean art – the Seokguram Buddha; I’ve been to see it 3 times The Internet has slapped down my arrogance. I told myself I wouldn’t write about k-pop, but that post on ‘Kangnam Style’ drove so much traffic to my site and twitter, that here is a response to all the comments. It’s kinda of depressing how my posts on Asian political economy or what-not get little traffic and a lot of yawns, but K-pop brings huge numbers. It’s like those Facebook posts on something you find interesting that no one bothers to look at, but put up a pic of yourself blotto on a beach, and everyone...
More slides from the talk after the fold.