A ban I can get behind.
Welcome news from the Land of Arbitrary Rules I Love: more and more professors are banning laptops in college classrooms.
This isn’t exactly news — laptop bans show up on many an English department syllabus in my neck of the woods — but it did re-stimulate my amazement at students tapping away on laptops in classes. [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2010 under Ain't That America, Infotainment, MFA, Tech.
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Mascot madness?
In keeping with our Olympic theme, I’d like to post a link to a page about this year’s Olympic mascots.
I might be really tired and in the middle of a crazy story deadline crunch…but I find those mascots and the video on that page mesmerizing. Especially early on in the video, when the whale-person mascot [...]
Posted: February 12th, 2010 under Ain't That America, Infotainment, Pets.
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Technoblah.
I’m considering story ideas involving the expansive field of “technology” and that has coincided nicely with rediscovering my game console and its various capabilities. Quite a few devices offer the ability to watch Netflix videos over an Internet connection, and I realized halfway through playing with that feature that my reaction was decidedly muted. And [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2009 under Ain't That America, Infotainment, Tech.
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