Monthly Archives: August 2006

Interiority and Gaming: Kafka’s Half-Life 2

Context: This post started out as a comment in response to Raph Koster’s insightful and thought-provoking comment on Brian Lamb’s discussion of the recent article in Harper’s Weekly “Grand Theft Education.” After I finished the first two paragraphs I promoted … Continue reading

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Firefox is the only web browser, period

Well, it is not like I didn’t know this fact already, but I have been so spoiled in my enjoyment of a bug free web experience over the past year that sometimes I simply forget. Recently, however, I have been … Continue reading

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Hacking an Open Source Virtual Learning Space (Part 2)

Upon completing part 1 of this serialized tutorial you should have the shell of your virtual learning space framed out. Now we want to start adding other open source tools that may be helpful. After WordPress, the next install for … Continue reading

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Hacking an Open Source Virtual Learning Space (Part 1)

So you wanna make an online course site that is open, conversational, multimedia ready, and more conducive to an engaging and dynamic online learning environment? Well, you came to the right blog at the right time because as the monolithic … Continue reading

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Netflix Plugin for WordPress, or did I ever tell you I love WordPress?

I guess it has been a long time coming and a long time here, but I just had to blog about it once I finally got it up and running. Thanks for the plugin Albert Banks.

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Your Mother’s Industrial Music

Regular WFMU listeners will be no doubt familiar with the concept of “industrial musicals”, where a company promotes themselves or their products with a single, a full album, or in extreme cases a full-blown musical production. The album Product Music: … Continue reading

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The Lost Beatles Film, or ExtremeVideo 2.0 for WordPress

Update: The ExtremeVideo 2.o plugin has gone the way of the DoDo Bird, use Anarchy Media Player or Viper’s Video Quicktags. I am sure this is old hat for many of you, but I just found an all-in-one video plugin … Continue reading

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I love WordPress, or how to modify the php.ini file for uploads over 2MB on Bluehost

I’m finally back at the blog, and while I have been away for a while, I am happy to say that this was only because so many cool things have been happening. In fact, this post is just to frame … Continue reading

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Drupal No Fan of Fantastico

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It’s the new style …

Every time bavatuesdays is loaded a random screenshot from one of several of Mario Bava’s films will be assailing the unsuspecting visitor to my site from the header, kinda like my own little haunted house! Many thanks go to Darcy … Continue reading

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