DeVos’ security detail projected to cost up to $7.7M during the next year – POLITICOThe Marshals Service said the final cost of protection for DeVos in fiscal 2018 was $6.79 million. Dork Money Defeats Dark Money on Twitter: “This 6.5 MB Bloomberg article injects targeted code into your browser and pings back to a suite […]
Year: 2018
Top Hat Content Rescue Bookmarklet
We have more and more people building things in Top Hat. Top Hat has some useful features (and a very aggressive sales team) but it’s not a place that makes it easy to get your content out. I am working with some of our biology faculty who have gotten an Open Stax textbook in there […]
Real Life Math or Window Ad?
Windows come in many shapes and sizes. Some commonly used shapes for windows are circles, rectangles, squares, triangles, pentagons, and octagons. Source: www.pella.com One of those amazingly horrible attempts at making something “real world” in a textbook. This is a high school math textbook. The source for this staggering information is a website that sells […]
User Choice: Hiding Some Sites in My Sites in WordPress Multisite
Long have I struggled with WordPress Multisite and the way it makes things difficult for non-super admin users. While it is very easy to join additional sites, leaving them on your own is easier said than done. I hesitate to write ‘impossible’ even now as it seems insane that there isn’t a good and obvious […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-09-23
The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads – MIT Technology ReviewTogether, these devices make it possible to send and receive signals directly to and from the brain. But nobody has created a network that allows group communication. Until now. World War II bombings weakened upper atmosphere at edge […]
Intro to OER: A Wider Spectrum
I’ve done a number of introduction to OER conversations over the last few years. I did another recently. Here is my revised attempt at getting at a very broad overview and maybe going a bit farther afield than is typically the case. This particular presentation emphasized OER as addition and that you could use all […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-09-16
Vampire squid – WikipediaVampyroteuthis infernalis In the Eyes of the Animalanother experiential animal eye Animal Vision Simulatorsee the world through the eyes of various animals – android phone app Light Work: The Rise of NBA Skills Trainers – The RingerBazzell is a part of a new generation of skills trainers who have utilized social media […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-09-02
Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status QuoAlthough it is often advertised as a method that is as innovative as the solutions it promises to produce, it bears an uncanny resemblance to an earlier model of problem-solving, celebrated in the 1970s and 1980s for the superior solutions it was supposed to produce. Called […]
Photography is Magic – Class 3 Notes
As we wander down the road with this digital photography class, I’m taking fairly detailed notes and expanding on things that don’t get fully covered in the class. I’m also including some of the strange asides because I think they’re interesting. I’m not sure how useful or interesting this will be absent being there but […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-08-26
Google and Facebook Didn’t End Data Privacy – The Atlantic Location data was particularly voluminous, with Android smartphones conveying a user’s position in space more than 300 times in a 24-hour period—even if the user has turned off location history in the device’s Google settings. The study also shows that the “incognito” mode in Google’s […]