Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa: An awesome letter. “Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration.” (Via StartupDigest, August 16, 2012) LEDs at Olympics… Continue Reading muraPOI: August 22, 2012
I found a link to an article comparing some of the available LED lightbulbs. What I like about Marco Arment’s site is that he does a comparison on the light and color given off by each of these LED lights via photographs. His best go to bulb? Lighting Science Definity – A19 Omni V2 –… Continue Reading Tuesday Tip: LED Lightbulbs
Fast, Fair, and Frictionless Content Licensing On The Internet: Fred Wilson of AVC.com writes… We need “a fast fair frictionless licensing system that isn’t based on propagating artificial scarcity”. Word. I do this with Creative Commons licenses, but for those unwilling or unable to use Creative Commons licenses, we need this “fair frictionless licensing system”.… Continue Reading muraPOI: August 20, 2012
I’ve been sorting through my storage unit and found some great historical documents for the Premier Award and NEEDS (A Digital Library for Engineering Education and precursor to NSDL.org and EngineeringPathway.com). I’ve always respected Cliff Lynch‘s thinking and clarity on networking and standards in academic technologies. Little did I know that what he said back… Continue Reading Friday Flashback: Standards Study Meeting, 1995
Principles of User Interface Design: Joshua Porter writes twenty principles of user interface design. I take exception to #6, and to his use of “screen”-focused language (as compared with multiple interactions that can happen on the same screen)–but I get his point. (via StartupDigest, August 10, 2012) Five Factors that Affect Online Student Motivation: Rob… Continue Reading muraPOI: August 13, 2012
Globalized IT operations pay off: Robert L. Mitchell writes a nice piece about deeply considering mind what needs to be differentiated, and what doesn’t when designing/building something. IT must strike a balance between what should be consistent across the company and what needs to be differentiated — a process that Bessant calls “paint-by-numbers vs. Picasso.”… Continue Reading muraPOI: August 9, 2012
Who Gets the Credit?: Paul Finn writes about prior learning assessment. As “free” courses from the likes of Udacity, Coursera and even edX take off, I wonder if personal e-portfolios might finally take off. I’ve always thought they were an interesting idea, I just couldn’t ever figure out how to implmenet them at scale, in… Continue Reading muraPOI: August 8, 2012
Sometimes my iTunes gets confused and the window extends off the bottom of the screen. This happens after I’ve opened iTunes while connected to an external monitor, and then close and open the program on my laptop. Even after clicking on the Maximize green plus button in the window header, iTunes doesn’t resize to the… Continue Reading Tuesday Tip: iTunes Window Extending Off the Screen?
Boxes for my shoes from when I was growing up… [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] And for my parents… [/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=””… Continue Reading Friday Flashback
This is a followup to my post on Website Images (2012). Last week I watched Adaptive Images in Responsive Web Design, a webinar by O’Reilly. It wasn’t particularly useful for the images side of things, but I did get some cool links as a result of it. Christopher Schmitt presented three issues to consider (I… Continue Reading muraPOI: Responsive Design and Images