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Supplementary Material
Supplementary Material was a submission four collaborators and I made to the Queen’s University Focus Film Festival 2007. We sat in a very long writing session and brainstormed a ton of ideas, but finally came up with something we found really fun, but we were afraid no one would get it. To our surprise, we…
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I'm in an internet commerical
www.keyprop.com/worryfreeliving So, just before the winter break I had a free day during exam period. What’s the best way to spend a free day? Why – participate in a commercial! You notice me as the guy holding the tuba, sweating his ass off in the sweat red digs. There are four episodes coming out in…
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Shat
I just realized – perhaps its just me – that the word “shat” is an acceptable term for the past tense of shit. I’ll have to use it in a paper to find out. Go nested sentence structure!
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Second Life is Open Source
Second Life is now open source. Now I’m not entirely sure to what breadth or depth this will mean to anyone that happens to read this, but WOW (not that other MMORPG, I’m exclaiming something). To get the background on this, go here:Second Life wikipedia Article This is, I think, a very significant moment. I…
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Found on a Golden VideoTape
Part 1 Part 2
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A picture a day for six years
The eyes of the man in this video are very sad. Why is that? Watch his hair mostly as it flails in a maelstrom about his monoexpression face. I get a sense that he is getting older, yet I feel that he isn’t changing. I see him in a variety of environment, so his life…
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The Interactive Universe
I just discovered the most amazing game – Samorost. The control of this game is such that you play a character (in the loose sense) navigating about a world in a puzzle-solving mode. But, the cool part of this game is that you get to make choices about your environment which should be beyond your…
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Why is the Pioneer Plaque so sexist?
My home page for the last while when Firefox starts has been the wikipedia start page. Just a few minutes ago, I was greeted with this: This is the Pioneer Plaque, a gold-engraved image sent out on the spacecrafts Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. For those that didn’t know, these were two spacecrafts that were…
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Is there a pedagogical value to being confusing?
When a teacher makes a lot of mistakes, and you notice them and shoot up your hand to correct them, are you learning more or less than if the teacher was right all the time? What if it isn’t you shooting up your hand, but someone in the same class as you? Since my degree…
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Flash is back
I used a new FTP site, so here is my first flash again. Watch for more coming up!