Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html A crash course in learning theory
Art & Design Websites
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVart.htm A listing of educational art and design resources and websites
Hooray! I have lasted over a week on 25 Peeps! If you’ve haven’t been to the site to click on my picture, would you please? And if you have, thanks! Would you do so again? It’s stirring up a little extra traffic this month!
GeoGreetings Earthlings
While playing with Google Maps, software engineer, Jesse Vig, noticed that a lot of buildings look like letters when viewed from above. That's how he came to create GeoGreetings, a cool way to create greeting cards online using images of buildings found with Google Maps. Every time you click on a letter, it opens it up in a map so
FOSSwiki Update
I've been making some changes to the FOSSwiki and wanted to let you know about them. For those of you who haven't yet visited, FOSSwiki is a listing of Freeware and Open Source software in wiki form. It has well over a few hundred titles thus far and is always growing as new content is added weekly. I've had some
I consume, digest and excrete information for a living…
“I consume, digest and excrete information for a living…As a committed infovore, I need to eat roughly six times my weight in information every day or my brain starts to starve and atrophy.” – Cory Doctorow
SimpleSimulation
http://erik.rainey.name/applets/SimpleSimulation/ A reproduction of the experiments of Stephen Wolfram in “A New Kind of Science”… a simple 8 bit Cellular Autonoma Simulation.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/gc/borders/105-0449987-2569261 Use this Amazon tool to check the balance on your gift cards from Borders or Waldenbooks
How Many of Me?
HowManyOfMe.com There are:253people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Yup, there are 253 Stacy Reed's in the US. There happens to be another one right here in Flint, Michigan. She owes some serious back taxes to the city. I know this because I once got pulled over and was detained by a police officer who thought
A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science
via Union of Concerned Scientists From the site: “In recent years, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference
RIAA sues AllofMP3 for $1.65 trillion
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8175/RIAA+sues+AllofMP3+for+$1.65+trillion The RIAA is seeking $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs AllofMP3 allegedly pirated.
3D Fractals
Weeee! Have fun playing with these 3D fractals. The Curlicue Fractal, and the Moving Fractal Tree are Java applets that let the user move the fractal around.
Setpixel
I love this site and everything in it. www.setpixel.com – I've blogged about the Interactive Waterfall before, but this time, I was particularly taken by the simplicity of Charles Forman's statement, “the tools that the artist uses are always the least important part of their creative process.” Charles uses processing to make his art interactive and magical. You can see