Archives: Bookmarks
Three Word Phrase, by Ryan Pequin
& Lauren : snackmountain.com
Waldo Jaquith – How I OCR hundreds of hours of video.
Highlighter
Might be a useful wordpress plugin —–
We give your audience the ability to engage with you on specific words, sentences, and images by simply highlighting.
K12 Guide to going Google
The Law and Order Database: Seasons 1-10 | Overthinking It
Last May, I mourned the end of L&O by announcing a crowdsourced effort to catalog the outcome of all 456 episodes. At first, the responses poured in, as bountiful as Lenny’s wisecracks. After a month of so, everyone trailed off… except for a reader named Josh Kyu Saiewitz, who decided that this was the perfect opportunity to watch every Law & Order episode, in order
Forbes.com – Magazine Article
–strange disconnect – aren’t education and businesses subject to those same competing forces?
And like any business, universities want to remain competitive on the salaries they pay their faculty. That gives rise to the comparative faculty salary survey. Since no university wants its faculty paid in the bottom half of their comparator group, the effect of every survey is to raise average salaries. It’s the Lake Wobegon effect: No one can be below average.
The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh) : MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art : Art Project, powered by Google
Pretty nice interface for examining some famous paintings via Google. Ought to make some art teachers very happy.
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code | Magazine
“People often assume that I must be some extremely moral person because I didn’t take advantage of the lottery,” he says. “I can assure you that that’s not the case. I’d simply done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn’t worth my time.”