Funky University Stuff

Yes, it exists. Here’s a periodic table of the elements, with videos.

It is at http://periodicvideos.com/ and succeeds in making Chemistry really inter­esting.

props @ Nottingham Uni (where I did my PGCE).

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Techmeme: A Not-​​Quite Retraction

Gabe Rivera, the creator of Techmeme, is either a PR genius or so nice that I am flum­moxed. After my last post, trashing his service, he tweeted:

Techmeme readers over­looking TheReg & Guardian’s homepages should know what they’re missing, says @ian­delaney: http://bit.ly/19rsap I agree.

And I guess that

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Mr Angry Internet Man Explains

From the Merriam Webster entry:

Main Entry: re·cid·i·vist Pronunciation: –vist Function: noun Etymology: French récidiv­iste, from récidiver to relapse, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin recidivare, from Latin recidivus recur­ring, from recidere to fall back, from re– + cadere to fall

Earlier this evening, I made what some might describe as an immod­erate comment

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Twittiquette

Twitter has been going mad today on the subject of Qwitter (There’s also Twitter Karma, much the same thing, but I became aware of it earlier than Qwitter thanks to @ssethi).

The basic function of these sites is to show people you follow (receive updates from) who aren’t receiving your own updates.

So

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A Dead Statesman (1924) and 2008

I could not dig, I dared not rob, And so I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue, And I must face the men I slew. What tale will serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young?

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

(I reserve the write *cough* right to do poems

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Sweded

Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor — some­where between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays.

As I am sure you know,

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