After having Patrick Ness‘ books recommended to me by the fine folks at io9, I went to the library and picked up a copy of The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book of the Chaos Walking trilogy.  And, man is it good!  So good, I went and read through the sequel, The Ask [...]

I didn’t see these when they went up back in May, so I thought I’d share them here… hilarious!
A New Hope:
Empire Strikes Back:
Return of the Jedi:
Enjoy!

via xkcd.com
This is hilariously (and tragically) true not only of too many university websites, but schools in general. Forutnately, since I have a hand in my school’s web presence, I can avoid some of these…

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Many SF TV shows have gotten the big-screen treatment in the last few years, as studios attempt to capitalize on the built-in audience that a previously existing property has. This is nothing new… Star Trek: The Motion picture is over 30 years old now, and the interim has seen many adaptations.
Not so frequent have [...]

So I’ll be the first to admit that because of my wide variety of classes taught, my marking has been somewhat schizophrenic.  I don’t generally mark the same way in CPT as I do in History, French or Science, and each class lends itself to specific ways of gathering marks.  Readers will note that I [...]

Fideism (n): doctrine that knowledge depends on faith over reason.  Fundeism (n): doctrine that places amusement above all.  This will be my last Fun Friday update for this school year – they’ll pick up again in the fall, time permitting.  Here are your links for this week:
Social:

Scenes from the Gulf – The Big Picture has [...]

Foraminated (adj): perforated or pierced with small holes.  Funraminated (adj): shot through with comedy.  Here are this week’s links:
Language:

Language apps (1, 2, 3) – In this three-part post, Mrs. Jones, a second-language teacher from Britain, looks at iPod Touch applications useful for instruction and learning in another language.

Science:

Oil spill comparison – The Deepwater Horizon spill [...]

When I started this blog in 2002, it was with the intention of it becoming a repository of links to stories I was interested in.  It has evolved over the past eight years to become that and much else.  While my weekly links roundups serve much the same purpose as the original story file, the [...]

Focimeter (n): instrument for measuring focal length of a lens.  Funcimeter (n): instrument for delivering amusement to your eyeballs.  Here are this week’s links:
Oil Spill:

Deepwater Horizon resources – A teacher lists sites with updates on the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
How bad could it get? – Article describing just how bad [...]

Faveolate (adj.): honeycombed.  Funveolate (adj.): funnycombed.  Here are this week’s links, unsorted:

Online collaborative whiteboards – K. Walsh reviews six sites online which allow you and friends to collaborate on a shared “whiteboard” space.  Might be fun to use with SmartBoards!
Posterazor – A service which will slice up large images so they can be printed on [...]

I’ve been meaning for a while to update my portfolio site, ianhecht.com.  While it was an okay way of showing websites that I’d created, it wasn’t especially fantastic-looking and didn’t list much else that I worked on.  I like the look of the Flavors.me sites, but they can only show things that have some kind [...]

When I went to mow the lawn the other day, the kids asked why I’d let the grass get so long.  I told them it was so the elephants would have a place to hide, not really thinking about it.  Of course, with a line like that, the kids wanted to know all about elephants [...]