- Taking Stephen King Seriously
- Mefi: It’s good to be King
- The Onion: I Don’t Even Remember Writing The Tommyknockers
- Raymond Williams, Moving from High Culture to Ordinary Culture
- PopCultures.com: Theorists and Critics: Raymond Williams
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
- Literature, Cognition & the Brain
- Timeline of Major Critical Theories in US
- Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory
- Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Karl Popper
- The Cat in the (Officially Licensed) Hat – a list of over 300 Cat in the Hat Movie product tie-ins
Since this entire page is about corporate involvement, let’s focus on that a moment – $8.25 for admission, $6.00 for a small soda and some candy. For that, I get the movie, plus the following pre-show experience: One Coca-Cola-sponsored short film. One semi-funny Cellular Phone public-service advertisement from Cingular Wireless. One advertisement for Fandango. One advertisement for Cat in the Hat and Loew’s Theaters Gift Cards, One filmed-for-television advertisement for NBC and Discovery Kids’ Trading Spaces show, One advertisement for a GI Joe Toy Set with a free GI Joe animated-film DVD. And then the previews – one for Chasing Liberty, one for Cheaper by the Dozen, one for Shrek 2, one for Home on the Range, one for Agent Cody Banks 2, and one for Peter Pan. All in all, that’s a dozen advertisements from over 20 different companies that were shown prior to the start of the movie.
I’m at the SCALE conference right now. I was up late last night; it’s too early for me to pay attention to what Andrew Morton is talking about wrt to inode caching schemes.
MSNBC: Test Your Digital IQ – I scored a 238 on their test. I think the only thing I got taken off for was not customizing a Yahoo/Excite type Portal. I agree with Heather, there definitely needs to be a ‘get out more’ category.
I have a great hate for the Real Player, but on OS X, I couldn’t figure out how to install the RP8 MPlayer codec (although the PPC binaries are there on the Binary codecs for MPlayer page.
In any case, for future reference: direct link to free Real Player, via download.com
My Treo 600 finally got in yesterday. It feels amazingly tiny (good in the hands) and the keyboard is squished, but fairly usable. More review stuff later. Interestingly enough, although it feels much smaller, it’s actually not too much smaller than my co-worker’s Treo 300. Here are the dimensions as compared to my Sidekick:
Kevin Werbach made some observations on the size in his recent article in The Feature: The Triumph of Good Enough.
Hey, it looks like I’m the ‘Feed of the Day’ over at Feedster. Just goes to show that you don’t need things like ‘regular updates’ or ‘finished templates’ or ‘permalinks’ and ‘date stamps.’
I skipped out on last night’s EDGE (Electronic Digital Game Expo) on campus last night; they introduced a new video game minor at USC.
Recently I’ve been spending a fair amount of my work time working on WebISO (Web Initial Sign-on) and portal integration, specifically Pubcookie, which we’ve adopted as part of the NMI R3 recommendations, and uPortal [#4 in InfoWorld’s Top 100 IT Projects of 2003] integration (my preferred portal framework).
Unfortunately, previous Pubcookie integration efforts have stalled out, buton the bright side, uPortal’s security framework looks pretty adaptable…
- uPortal Authentication Options: Design and Applicability [PPT]
- uPortal Security and CAS [PPT]
- Internet2/WebISO & Pubcookie: Efforts in Web Authentication [PPT]
- University of Bristol IS: Blackboard – The Options – CalPoly has developed a Blackboard Access Channel w/ full authentication; may be adaptable to Pubcookie (or via the CAS module)
- Bristol also has a great resource list of Portals and Portal Frameworks
Here’s a great quote:
Middleware is the intersection of what the Network Engineers and the Application Programmers don’t want to do.
AT&T Wireless Re-Launches mMode
AT&T Wireless today announced the re-launch of its mMode mobile Internet service. Using the new xHTML standard on phones that support it, the service offers richer graphics and is designed to be easier to use. New services include Mobil Traffic, a location-enabled application that provides color-coded multimedia traffic updates for 40 metro areas, including traffic alerts, speed flows, and incident reports.
Ryan has a Nokie 3650, so I decided to chedk out the Mobil Traffic. After several minutes of confusing navigation, I did get to it, where I was confronted w/ a 30-day trial offer. OK, well, I wasn’t going to subscribe him onto it, but I did take a look at the sample. Not bad. Although being able to get my TANN and LADOT reports directly beats that out I think.
