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Administrivia and Five Quick Links
Feb. 21st, 2012 11:28 amGeneral reminders:
A) This is moving week (also vacation from work week, and Elayna-visits-some-colleges week), so I'm not online much these days.
B) I'm often dumping links on FB and Twitter. My Facebook's here, my primary Twitter account (a mix of ed-tech, personal, and pedagogy links) is here, and my pop-culture focused one is here (it probably won't surprise anyone to know that my pop culture tweets also can get political at times). I also use Pinboard to archive all of the links I post to both Twitter accounts (as well as anything I star in Google Reader or tag separately). That's Pinboard, not Pinterest; my Pinterest account is pretty much a wasteland, an account reserved because I sign of for every service just in case.
Anyway, links that I didn't post to the above:
1. Amazon's Deal of the Day is on The Godfather Collection on Blu-Ray for $25 (60% off)! Note that for some reason, you might have to look under "More Buying Choices" to get the Amazon price (very annoying when it's the daily deal).
2. I'm sure folks have seen this link already, but Martin Amis's video game book is something I need to find at some point.
3. Chris Sims's takedown of Comic Book Men is kind of awesome.
4. The AVClub's look at whether the long-form storytelling popularized by the Sopranos has ruined TV is also a great read (although I'm more sympathetic to the form than McGee is, it's worth noting that the complaints about the lack of Nebula nominations for Game of Thrones stem from the fact that many awards are single-episode-focused, and full-season programming tends to exclude itself from these awards). Of course, there are plenty of shows that actually have episodic pacing within a full storyline (The Sopranos, in fact, did this quite well), and McGee does cite some examples.
(Incidentally, the AV Club, which is generally great on all fronts, has become damned near the best place for TV criticism since, well, SMRT-TV went off the air, or since TWOP was still Mighty Big TV.)
5. Finally, as someone who deals with accessibility and technology as a part of my day job, I'm kind of excited about this Braille iOS and Android app, although it also highlights one of my frustrations with Apple's UI, specifically their locking down of the keyboard (even if they have some of the best accessibility options out there on other fronts).
A) This is moving week (also vacation from work week, and Elayna-visits-some-colleges week), so I'm not online much these days.
B) I'm often dumping links on FB and Twitter. My Facebook's here, my primary Twitter account (a mix of ed-tech, personal, and pedagogy links) is here, and my pop-culture focused one is here (it probably won't surprise anyone to know that my pop culture tweets also can get political at times). I also use Pinboard to archive all of the links I post to both Twitter accounts (as well as anything I star in Google Reader or tag separately). That's Pinboard, not Pinterest; my Pinterest account is pretty much a wasteland, an account reserved because I sign of for every service just in case.
Anyway, links that I didn't post to the above:
1. Amazon's Deal of the Day is on The Godfather Collection on Blu-Ray for $25 (60% off)! Note that for some reason, you might have to look under "More Buying Choices" to get the Amazon price (very annoying when it's the daily deal).
2. I'm sure folks have seen this link already, but Martin Amis's video game book is something I need to find at some point.
3. Chris Sims's takedown of Comic Book Men is kind of awesome.
4. The AVClub's look at whether the long-form storytelling popularized by the Sopranos has ruined TV is also a great read (although I'm more sympathetic to the form than McGee is, it's worth noting that the complaints about the lack of Nebula nominations for Game of Thrones stem from the fact that many awards are single-episode-focused, and full-season programming tends to exclude itself from these awards). Of course, there are plenty of shows that actually have episodic pacing within a full storyline (The Sopranos, in fact, did this quite well), and McGee does cite some examples.
(Incidentally, the AV Club, which is generally great on all fronts, has become damned near the best place for TV criticism since, well, SMRT-TV went off the air, or since TWOP was still Mighty Big TV.)
5. Finally, as someone who deals with accessibility and technology as a part of my day job, I'm kind of excited about this Braille iOS and Android app, although it also highlights one of my frustrations with Apple's UI, specifically their locking down of the keyboard (even if they have some of the best accessibility options out there on other fronts).