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I was really excited that a TEDx event was being planned for Calgary. I was looking forward to TEDxYYC, and was planning to attend and help out in any way that I could. The website for the event went live today, so I went to register.
I got to the registration form. Except it’s not a [...]
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I’m trying the rating features baked into the latest version of the PollDaddy plugin. It looks pretty cool – you can set it to allow rating of posts, pages, and even comments. Not sure how it’ll be used, or if it will be useful at all, but there it is. Rate away. If you have [...]
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A great manifesto. 43 guiding principles to live by. (via David Gillespie)
My faves:
6. capture accidents
12. keep moving
13. slow down
14. don’t be cool
20. be careful to take risks
32. listen carefully
33. take field trips
38. explore the other edge (everyone crowds the leading edge…)
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Stuff from this morning’s romp through my RSS reader:
a link to an old article on how to hack a disposable camera into an automatic flash slave unit. gotta try this. (via Photojojo)
an awesome Helvetica t-shirt, rendered in Comic Sans. So wrong. So awesome. (via boingboing)
Tuper Tario Tros – Tetris meets Super Mario Bros. mashup game. [...]
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Thought of the day:
Technology doesn’t make learning any more relevant or effective. Good teaching does that. Treating everyone in the class as fully fledged human beings does that. Respecting the contributions, backgrounds, and interests of all learners does that. Relevant and effective teaching and learning can occur without any technology at all, if given a [...]
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Here’s some of the things I’ve Saved in my RSS reader over the last few days. If you have a few minutes to kill, these links should fit the bill.
The Online Photographer – A Gift Waiting at Every Corner: Notes from a Life in Photography
A great article about a career photographer’s life, and how they [...]
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I finally saw Avatar, and left the theatre with lots of conflicting reactions to the movie.
cinematically gorgeous
amazing visuals
fascinating biology
but… why are the Na’vi simply caricatures of humans?
but… in a fully 3D-modeled-and-rendered world, why are the Na’vi so human?
why is Cameron so heavy handed in his Gaia-theory stuff?
this is largely just a mashup of every Cameron movie I’ve [...]
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I’d actually held some hope for meaningful change brought about by the discussions in Copenhagen this month. But everything I’m seeing and reading lately sounds like it’s pretty much just political greenwashing and crushed peaceful protests.
Elizabeth May has been blogging from Copenhagen (see comments by Hugo Chavez – who would have put him in the [...]
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