A quick note about a problem that has emerged again in my students’ essays. I encourage students to search the massive online journal databases to find material for their essays. Other students have also figured out that books can be read through Google Books and even Amazon.com. A minor problem that I am seeing is […]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
hacking the (bar)code
Here are some results from links and ideas various people have sent from my post to the cultstud list and blog several weeks ago. Here is another post. The reason I am posting this to my blog now is because Google Android’s mobile operating system has received some positive critical comments regarding its barcode scanning […]
Tipping point?
From The Australian newspaper: CRIMTRAC’s planned automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system could become a mass surveillance system, taking as many as 70 million photos of cars and drivers every day across a vast network of roadside cameras. State and federal police forces want full-frontal images of vehicles, including the driver and front passenger, that […]
Sarah Palin: Head of Skate
rofl See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. video embded (via)
Two ideas for new consumer technologies
1) Idea behind technology: Nationalistic Singstar editions. Names: Singstar Australia Day Edition, Singstar Independence Day Edition, etc. these are only examples, as each national market would have its own particular name. Description: Sony can tap into the affects of the popularist nationalism. A Singstar disk installment that collects all the popular pop and folk anthems […]