Monthly Archives: December 2005

Idea factory: deliver school closings via RSS

Here in Maine, the weather is likely to turn bad any day now (possibly today) and stay that way until at least early April. Hence, we’re nearly upon the beginning of the school snow day season. One idea I’d love … Continue reading

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Is there an ideal gender mix in academia?

In which I link to Rex Hammock twice in one day: Rex reports that colleges and universities are seeing a drop in male students. As Rex quotes, from the WaPo: “Colleges and universities across the country are grappling with the … Continue reading

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Rex Hammock says: “You’re crazy if you take what you read in Wikipedia at face value.”

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Idea factory: integrated bittorrent search

OLSTM (one-line summary): a bittorrent client that includes an integreated search box. Here’s one way it could work: A user downloads a bittorrent client that includes an integrated torrent file search box. As the user, you can specify one, or … Continue reading

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Keeping the Christmas tree

This may anger or distress some people, but I have to make a quick mention of the fact. You can call yours whatever you like, but in my home we’re going to keep calling it the Christmas Tree, not the … Continue reading

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Random problems with Flickr feeds and Bloglines?

I’m back from the holiday inspired, turkey-induced blog hiatus with a quick question before I drop some longer-form posts…what is up with Flickr’s RSS feeds in Bloglines? Flickr photo feeds are NOT working for me in Bloglines, to say the … Continue reading

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