Archive for July, 2008
08-07-30
Tags:Cuneiform History Linguistics Paperville Research symbol system writing system
I’ve been reading The Invention of Cuneiform by Jean-Jacques Glassner, originally published Paris: Seuil, 2000, in series L’univers historique (ISBN 0-801807389-4), translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop.
I will reserve comments for later. Here’s some quotables from the […]
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08-07-26
Tags: I didn’t get to go to his speech. Shiou-yuan Chen and friends got there before 4 and ended up not too far from Obama. So here’s a couple of pictures. This was as near as they could get, and there was no way they could move an inch away from whatever that […]
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08-07-23
Tags: Greetings from Berlin. Let me be absolutely clear — Obama was not the target of the attack– he is probably not even in Berlin. The site of his speech tomorrow was vandalized by red paint.
I am here for the International Congress of Psychology this week. Coincidentally, Obama will also give a speech — the […]
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08-07-17
Tags:Computing Education Teaching Watch List AppleInsider | Apple filing takes Podcasts to the next level Technologically this makes a lot of sense, and it will be a hit among Universities. Watch for a iTunesU boom. Ironically, tools like this can eventually kill the lecture as we know it.
A student in my lecture […]
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08-07-17
Tags:Computing Watch List Google Visualization API Gadget Gallery on Google Code has an impressive demonstration of dynamic graphs you can do in a browser, including
moving bubble chart
time line
Gantt plot
and of course all kinds of map, bars, etc.
I looked in there because I was trying to build a tool to keep […]
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