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  • Facebook the old AOL?

    This is not in any way talking about how AOL is a business or anything else about how it has changed since it “connected” to the Internet. I’m talking about the old days when these large dial in networks could only support communications inside their own confines. It came to me this weekend, that it’s…

  • Is this how we get people to love learning?

    It’s back to school for most people this week and between all the stories of what has been done to limit the students ability to really be themselves. In some schools, there are dress codes that limit or eliminate hoodies, backbacks and cargo pants – because of security – cell phones – god only knows…

  • Plagiarism or collaboration

    Sometimes I wonder if there is any way to really differentiate these terms as there as some people who think that even being in the same room as someone else working on the same project would constitute plagiarism. I have some personal experience with this as in my first undergrad a prof who told the…

  • Multiplayer relevant

    This is what I think I was thinking about when I was finishing up the last post and when I was walking out to the next meeting. But, as it happens with ideas, the original idea seemed perfect and then I went through the meeting, I lost the idea almost completely and now this is…

  • Calculus

    One of the most interesting things (to me at least… but then I geek out on Discovery) is the history of knowledge. So this morning when I saw something about Calculus being “fussed out” about 250 years earlier in India than it was in Europe caught my I and I sent it off to a…