February 26, 2009
I’ve been chipping away at processing and archiving family papers lately. Tonight I came across a folder of papers from when my mother was a full time instructor in the LSU English Department, circa 1979. Among the exams and worksheets she used in class was this little gem:
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF UNCLEAR WRITING. SENTENCES [...]
Tags: English, grammar, humor
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July 14, 2008
Radiohead has released a video for its “House of Cards” song that has the peculiar distinction of being a live-action video filmed without cameras. According to the Google Blog post ”No Camera, No Lights, Just Data“, the imagery was created using 3D scanning lasers and detectors.
The video, hosted online by Google, is visually interesting, but the novelty is [...]
Tags: 3D digitalization, data visualization, Google, music video, Radiohead
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July 1, 2008
I’ve just received a letter from Google that personal data of Google employees hired prior to December 31, 2005 may have been stolen in the May 26 burglary of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. No credit card numbers were in the stolen data, just names, addresses, SSNs – all the info needed for a thief to [...]
Tags: burglary, Colt, Google, identity theft, security breech
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