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Ryan Sholin

Year: 2005

  • Er, make that History & Anthropology

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    This is an update of this post, reposted here for the benefit of those of you not reading this in an RSS feed. For those of you playing along with the home game, this Summer I’m taking two classes: Technology & Civilization History of California since 1900 , and Emerging Global Cultures. They’re both undergraduate…

  • Self-Correcting Editorial?

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    I can’t help but shake my head. The LA Times made a valiant attempt to wiki-fy their editorial page, starting with one story, allowing online readers to link it, comment on it, revise it, improve it, alter it, edit it…but apparently the experiment went down in flames as some people thought it would be amusing…

  • Self-Correcting Blog

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    After a little tweaking of the wrapper and content widths, this blog is now far more pleasant if you’re using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Microsoft Internet Explorer users. Any Safari users out there still seeing anything strange? Firefox is my browser of choice, and the blog looks alright in that.

  • Self-Correcting Blogosphere

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    Scoble comes clean: “In the face of overwhelming evidence, I admit I’m wrong. Trying to justify the Chinese MSN word blocker is one of the more boneheaded things I’ve done.” Check out the comments on his post to see more of the discussion. [Background]: Chinese Democracy, Chinese Democracy Continued

  • Technology & Anthropology

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    UPDATED For those of you playing along with the home game, this Summer I’m taking two classes: Technology & Civilization History of California since 1900 , and Emerging Global Cultures. They’re both undergraduate classes in other departments and don’t count toward my degree, but who cares – I’m here to get an actual education. The…

  • Reading Rudy Rucker

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    My three posts this afternoon have all been strictly anti-establishment, so I thought I’d lighten the mood by sharing something I’ve only begun to discover… Rudy Rucker is a painter, a science-fiction author, a photographer, a cinematographer, a collector of gnarl, and a Professor in the Computer Science department at SJSU. He’s listed as “recently…

  • NYU = Union Busters

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    The New York Times (registration required) is reporting that my undergraduate alma mater, New York University, is looking to get rid of their Graduate Students Union. From the article by Karen Arenson: “They said the collective-bargaining process had produced benefits for student teaching and research assistants, like better compensation and clearer work rules, but that…

  • Chinese Democracy Continued…

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    Let me know when companies that sell newsprint start telling newspapers what they can call themselves.

  • Podcast Functionality In iTunes TODAY

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    Bad Apple lets you use iTunes (Windows only for now) to find, download, and listen to podcasts. The iTunes relase of a month from now, today! Still mucking around to see if there’s some sort of alerty subscriptiony thing here, which there doesn’t seem to be – but it’s still WAY quicker/more pleasant than using…

  • Doin’ It On The Bus…

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    …reading my feeds, that is. Tuesday, on the way home from school Highway 17 bus style, I was making a first attempt at writing while riding, and managed to do it without any great amount of nausea. As the bus pulled into Scotts Valley, I flipped on the wi-fi switch just to see how many…