Archive for November, 2008
The End of the Internet
Saturday, November 15th, 2008These are some of my favorite “end of the internet” pages: http://www.weirdity.com/internet/eoti.html http://mdesmond.com/end-of-the-internet http://www.endoftheinternet.com http://shibumi.org/eoti.htm http://home.earthlink.net/~thesandpit/misc/the_end.htm http://webnme.com/endoftheinternet.html
Serendipty
Saturday, November 15th, 2008My cousin, who is a librarian, recently sent me this quote from Annie Proulx: “I mourn the loss of the old card catalogs, not because I’m a luddite, but because the oaken trays of yesteryear offered the researcher an element of random utility and felicitous surprise through encounters with adjacent cards, information by chance that […]
Think Critically, Act Ethically
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Last week (November 3-7) was National Media Education Week in Canada. The Media Awareness Network, who organized it, posted this video to help publicize it: Here are some excerpts from their website: Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate – able to critically understand the nature, techniques and impacts of media […]