Google Wave(s goodbye to email)
Michael Gallagher I am impressed. Google Waves has been introduced at least nominally. It is meant as a replacement for email, IM, social networks, all under one roof. You can do anything…
May 2009
Merton and the Modern World
“Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond…
Google Social Graph
From Google Labs, those fine folks that brought you everything from Street View to every other application of any merit in the universe (only slight exaggeration) comes Social Graph. Tired…
Academic Earth: Hulu for Smarties
I am totally fascinated by this 2.0 manifestation. Academic Earth aggregates lectures from the world’s top professors from universities like Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton. Want to learn about the beginnings…
Smart Technologies, Montagu Drive Primary School in South Africa
This is taken from the eLearning Africa 2009 website and refers to Smart Whiteboards, which are basically interactive digital whiteboards: “Initially the teachers were hesitant about using the boards, as…
An Impossibility
Every velvety tremor from that glockenspiel ripples these scissored dreams further from the deepest point of this deepest blue sea. I imagined I heard a faint choir linger over the…
영자팔법, eternity, calligraphy and brushstrokes
This is the Chinese character for etermity. This character is significant especially for Chinese calligraphy as it encapsulates all the eight possible brushstrokes found in the Chinese language. These eight…