I managed to stay (mostly) offline for (most of) the last week. Didn't even check RSS feeds. Here's some tabs that caught my attention while checking in over high-test caffeine this morning (in roughly-chronological order of tab-opening)…
- Polling in Desire2Learn's Learning Environment (mostly because of how simple adding widgets via iframe is…)
- Signs of Life via XKCD
- massive canyon buried under greenland ice sheet. dang.
- twitter use in the alberta government by post-sec minister
- impact of post-sec cuts by that same twitter-using alberta gov't minister
- but same minister approves of UofC operations, so there's that…
- red bull illume photo contest winners. dang.
- apparently, tablets are a thing now.
- lots of construction on campus this fall
- and we apparently have narrowly averted adopting comic sans in our new official visual identity
- michael ullyot is kicking ass in digital humanities analysis
- sandy murphree returns as interim deputy-provost. that was unexpected…
- OMNI Reboot: Future Late Capitalism: A Timeline
- OMNI Reboot: Edible Memories (potentially interesting overlap with Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 and the ingestion of non-terrestrial microbes…)
- Flickr is upgrading the crap out of its iOS app, after a few acquisitions. Just in time for iOS7 to include the same functionality but without tying people to a third party hosting service…
- and, some photos from our trip to the Okanogan region this week. lake life is nice.