December 2008
Dave Karger's Predictions for the Oscar... →
The Serendipity35 Review For 2008 →
Serendipity35 has been getting a pretty
consistent one million plus visitors per month during the second half of 2008. That both pleases us, and makes us
wonder if we shouldn’t have gone…
Cycle for Survival →
This was not news that I wanted to hear to end or begin a year. I’m passing it on here in the hopes that you will help spread the word and that you might consider it one of your causes for the new…
A Year in Less Than A Minute →
In this video you have shots from a camera in the same spot taking a photo every once and awhile for one year and then all the images stitched together into a 40 second video time-lapse style. I…
The Serendipity35 Review For 2008 →
Serendipity35 has been getting a pretty
consistent one million plus visitors per month during the second half of 2008. That both pleases us, and makes us wonder
if we shouldn’t have gone…
About Us Version 2.10 →
I looked back at my first entry from February 2, 2006 and it seems simultaneously not that long ago, and a lot
of posts ago.
Looking in our stats tool, I see that we have a total of 698 entries…
Everything I Know About Business I Learned From... →
from Zappos Blogs: CEO and COO Blog
Netflix's New DVD shipping process →
Woman sits on boyfriend's toilet for 2 years →
Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years, and they’re investigating whether she was mistreated.
YAH THINK SO?
Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services…
Msnbc.com's Most Peculiar stories of 2008 →
from MSNBC.com’s Weird News
SimplyNoise.com →
free white noise generator on the Internet.
Uses of White Noise: * Aid Sleep * Enhance Privacy * Block Distractions * Mask Tinnitus * Configure Audio Equipment * Soothe Migraines
Jazz at Lincoln Center →
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra playing new arrangements of Thelonious Monk’s sturdy and…
You Can Quote Them On That →
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Book Montage →
Some books I have read, am reading, want to read. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Zeitgeist and Buzz for 2008 →
People search because they want to know about things. Curiosity is generally a good thing, especially in the education world. The people who work at search companies are also curious - about…
Welcome to RutgersBowl.com →
Rutgers football - Bowl 2008
Road Food →
I love that Jane and Michael Stern write a monthly column called “Two For The Road” for Gourmet magazine. Gourmet! It’s a cross-country guide to finding roadfood. What’s roadfood?
Meals along…
Jane's Favorites From 2008 →
One of my
favorite bloggers from across the pond, Jane
Hart, took a look at all the resources that she had collected during 2008 on her LearnTech Library and LearnTech News…
Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway—An Annual Writers'... →
The White Album: 40 Years On →
How is it possible that “The White Album” is now 40 years old? It was released in November 1968 and was their ninth album. It was exactly five years from the November 22 release of their…
Activating Your Brain's Healing Power →
We are more likely to experience depression than our parents were. Blame our automated, online world? How about the reduced physical effort we make to survive? Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert finds…
Chance of a Lifetime →
“Now you listen to me — I don’t want any plastics, and I don’t want any ground floors, and I don’t want to get married ever to anyone, do you understand that? I want to do what I want to do — and you…
Still Moodling After All These Years →
Moodle is my favorite of the open source course management systems (CMS). [AKA learning management systems (LMS) or
by many Moodle users, as a virtual learning environment (VLE)]
Beyond the…
A Holiday Spreadsheet →
How geeky a Christmas post is this?
Four elves worked together simultaneously on a single Google Docs
spreadsheet.
Each cell in the 100 row x 186 col spreadsheet was filled using 18…
Uh Oh. The Limit →
Uh oh. I tried to add the French film A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël as Lynnette would say) to my Netflix list and I got the message that I had hit my queue limit of 500 films. That’s too…
Snow Days →
If you were lucky enough to get some snow days when you were a kid, and you ended up staying in education as an adult - then you know that it’s just as exciting to have a day off from school…
Teachers Blogging - A Call for Proposals →
The New Jersey College English Association (NJCEA) is soliciting panels and papers on literary and composition topics for its Annual Conference on March 21, 2009 at Seton Hall University…
Blogging in the English Classroom - A Call for... →
I’m putting together a panel on blogging and would love to connect with some English teachers who use blogging as a teaching tool. I’d like to have papers on students as bloggers, teachers blogging for their students, teachers blogging as educators and the pedagogy of using blogs as readings and as writing platforms.
Using Tech To Track Santa's Journey →
Yes, you can use the high tech of
NORAD to track Santa’s journey around the world.
The NORAD Tracks Santa Web site is a kind of public relations
effort by the extremely serious people at…
Good Reads →
I recently started using Good Reads online. It is a way to see what your friends are reading and keep track of what you’ve read (which I have always done in the back of my journals anyway), write…
Fireside Chats 2.0 →
A number
of bloggers are announcing that the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s regular radio broadcasts that were known as
“fireside chats” is back in version 2.0 with President Elect Barack…
Creative Commons Explained Simply →
If you still don’t get what Creative
Commons is all about (or you want to have it explained to your students or colleagues), try this
video.
It explains Creative Commons…
Winter Solstice →
Well, Serendipity35 just moved into winter…
Winter
Solstice began December 21, 2009 @ 17:55 Greenwich Mean Time. If you’re like most Americans, you have no idea what
time that is in…
