January 2012
37 posts
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Texas Educators Encourage More Two-Year College... →
infoneer-pulse:
Assaying the output of higher education in Texas, Michael Bettersworth evoked the image of a crippled Apollo 13 craft hurtling into space, its future uncertain.
“Houston, we have a problem, and it’s not that too few people are going to college,” said Mr. Bettersworth, an associate vice chancellor at the Texas State Technical College System. “It’s that too many people are getting...
“Real wit is shown in language. We need language.”
– Maya Angelou (via theparisreview)
Yelping with Cormac: Design Within Reach →
yelpingwithcormac:
Pacific Heights - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
They emerged from the crucible of adolescence rosyfaced and long of bone, inheritors of the hurtling world of their progenitors. Cocksure but for the onerous legacy of war and rapacious greed and…
“What if a computer could accurately grade student essays? It could change the...”
– The End Of Multiple Choice? The Quest To Create Accurate Robot Essay Graders (via fastcompany)
Wikipedia Blackout - Where's Wikipedia? - Guides... →
From the Texas A&M Research Libraries, a guide to SOPA/PIPA:
“This guide will help you find alternate resources so you don’t go through search withdrawal, understand the major issues surrounding SOPA and PIPA, and learn about supporters and opponents of the legislation.”
SCC students can access alternate resources through the SCC...
Learn to code | Codecademy →
Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
“It took a few centuries after the invention of text for regular people to learn...”
– Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - CNN: Why I am learning to code and you should, too
“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so...”
– Pico Iyer defends the long sentence in today’s LA Times. (via millionsmillions)
“If you find yourself reading Chaucer for more than four hours seek immediate...”
– Legal disclaimer to a hypothetical Super Bowl ad for the Norton Anthologies (via wwnorton)
How crossword puzzles mess with your mind →
infoneer-pulse:
TACKLING a crossword can crowd the tip of your tongue. You know that you know the answers to 3 down and 5 across, but the words just won’t come out. Then, when you’ve given up and moved on to another clue, comes blessed relief. The elusive answer suddenly occurs to you, crystal clear.
The processes leading to that flash of insight can illuminate many of the human mind’s curious...
“Even if you think you’ve nailed it on the first try (you haven’t, by the way),...”
– 10 New Year’s resolutions for designers | Feature | .net magazine
“You need the eye, the hand, and the heart. Two won’t do.”
– David Hockney (via austinkleon)
“Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
skirmishes against the author
raging along...”
– Billy Collins, “Marginalia,” Sailing Alone Around the Room (2002) p. 94. (via countedsorrowscountedjoys)
SEVEN BAR JOKES INVOLVING GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION.
BY ERIC K. AULD
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1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
3. A question mark walks into a bar?
4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
6. The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
7....
“An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college...”
– From the department of New York Times corrections, December 30th, 2011. Even better, a self described “adolescent with Asperger’s” pointed the mistake out, initially, in the comments. (via elisabethdonnelly)
We applaud the attention to detail here, folks. (As would our author, David Finch.)
December 2011
42 posts
You can't really do anything right. You can just...
baitandswitch:
- Louis C.K. in his reddit thread
