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Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
Tomalak's Realm cites Donald Norman:
Minimizing the annoyance of the mobile phone. The cost is partially monetary, but more and more it is in human-measures: annoyance, irritation, and frustration. It is what makes us wish to throw away the technology even as we embrace it. We are in real danger of a consumer backlash against annoying technologies.
9:55:49 PM 
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A Parable on Justice and the Market Power of "Star" Academics.
Jon Kvanvig (Philosophy, Missouri) writes: "Below is something philosophers don't seem to have thought about very much, especially those who get offers to move from one institution to another. ...
[Leiter Reports]
Great parable. And shaping up to be an interesting comments thread, as well, including contributions from parable author, Jon Kvanvig, such as:
I agree with Mark's point about enlarging the application of the parable to include graduate assistants as well as professors. It would be disappointing to me, though, if discussion of the immediate and obvious things recipients of offers can do were pushed to the side in favor of discussion of the value of unionization. I'm all for collective action, but philosophers and other academics need to think more about what kinds of actions to undertake in the meantime. I'll support picket lines and whatever, but the challenge of the parable is about how to care about the right things prior to the point at which collective action has been undertaken, and surely the answer to that is not only to begin the attempt to generate collective action.
9:55:48 PM
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Weblogsky: Thinking about the state of online community
We often argue that blogs are conversations and that blogs in aggregate work as platforms for online community, but they really are less conversational than dedicated discussion forums, so if you focus on blogs alone, it's harder to get the sense of community that you have in more traditional virtual spaces
[unmediated]
5:35:25 PM
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Far Apart but Intensely Connected. A bicoastal couple finds a way to be in constant contact -- even sleeping together -- despite the great divide. It's a 21st-century love affair, courtesy of mobile technology. By Rachel Metz. [Wired News]
7:23:37 AM
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Berkeley laptop thief is scared out of his wits by professor
The last few minutes of this video from a biology class at Berkeley is of professor explaining the terrifying consequences that will soon befall the student that stole his laptop. Hell, I'm 500 miles away from Berkeley and I'm scared after watching this. (Forward to 48:50. It's a RealPlayer file, unfortunately, so be prepared for it to stop playing at least three times while you're watching it). Link (Thanks Kevin!)
UPDATE: Here's a torrent of the pertinent part of the video (In QuickTime, not Real!) Link (Thanks, Matt Yohe!)
UPDATE:Sean Graham says: "For those people who don't want to deal with RealPlayer I made a very lo-fi mp3 of the audio from the "Stolen Laptop" lecture posted earlier today...
"I trimmed out the actual educational part of the lecture and just left the 'good part.'" Link
UPDATE: Tim says: I've transcribed Professor Rine's speech to the thief who stole his laptop. It's available here.
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7:23:36 AM
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Ice rabbits glisten at senior art show.
Family, friends and Webster faculty joined graduating Gorloks April 15 to celebrate the opening of the 2005 Bachelor of Arts Exhibition in the Cecille R. Hunt Gallery. The exhibit, which extends into the Visual Arts Studio, features about 40 different pieces of artwork created by 16 senior Webster art students.
[The Journal]
7:14:04 AM
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Weird DVD piracy bust in China
"Two foreigners with amusing names -- the cartoon East-Coast-aristocrat Randolph Hobson Guthrie III and his sidekick Cody Abram Thrush -- have been given jail terms by a Shanghai court for DVD piracy. Guthrie has been described by the New York Post as 'the black-sheep scion of one of the city's oldest, wealthiest and most socially prominent families.'" Link (Thanks, Tian!)
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7:13:29 AM
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