Web Browser. The most important computer application today is the web browser. I gotta hand it to Microsoft; they knew this years ago when they crushed Netscape. They knew something that many did not suspect: that the humble web browser would become the most important application on the home computer, perhaps even more important than [...]
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Writely On!
Thanks to Piet Nutbey, I now have a Writely account, something I’ve wanted for days. No, I don’t know him, but I followed a link from Digg to a web site he set up where anyone can request an account. I was sent an invite within hours. Not only does he seem to have an [...]
Fun with Bibliographies
Who knew that works cited pages could be so fun? With the help of Ron Jerome‘s Bibliography module for Drupal, I’m beginning to really geek-out on my professional web site. Instead of a list of works that I have cited on this blog, I can how have individual entries for every work I cite (like [...]
Let’s Just Ignore Them
It seems that I’m not the only one who has a problem with Ratemyprofessors.com (digg it). Eric Strand, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, suggests that we sue this ridiculous web site for misrepresenting our teaching ability with animated emoticons and flippant one-sentence dismissals that could become a profesional liability when on the job market. [...]
Writely
As if Google Notebook wasn’t cool enough. Now there’s Writely, an online word processor that seems to have been acquired by Google (of course). Who needs Word when you can do all of your word processing online? According to their web site, documents can be shared and stored online, to be edited from any web [...]
Sf Index
I’m slowly creating a science fiction index for my class this fall. As I mentioned on my insomniac post, I’ve decided not to get an anthology, though there are many good ones out there, like Le Guin’s and Roberts’, neither and none have all the stories that I want to teach. Well, this is not [...]
Rifftrax
Michael J. Nelson rules. Keeping with what made him famous, he’s come up with Rifftrax. From the site: Do you feel that some of the movies coming out of Hollywood are just, well, missing something? At RiffTrax, you can download Mike’s running commentaries and listen to them along with your favorite, and not so favorite [...]