Archive for June, 2009

Kung Fu Zombies

Check out this clip from Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave (1982), between the terrible dubbing, ridiculous effects, and zombies vs. Dracula “action,” it is simply impossible not to love it:

Thanks to the great Brad Efford for thinking of me on this one, and if you haven’t seen his Daily inTune series, it comes highly [...]

THATCamp: Kickback and Conversate

Image credit: GHBrett’s “THATcamp”
I’m just unwinding from a full day at THATCamp 09 hosted by GMU’s CHNM, and I truly find it odd how much I have been mentally gushing about this event.  In fact, it’s really not my style, I usually have some crack or other to make about a conference or event, but [...]

“Disco hippies gone wild in the forest”

When searching for an image for my last post, I came across this image which led me to this video. What we have here is Tommy Seebach’s rendition of “Apache,” an artefact that confirms my belief that nothing good ever came out of the cross breeding of disco and hippies, particularly in Europe.

UMW Blogs and BuddyPress is disco a go-go!

Image Credit: Alan(ator)’s “Solar System Disco Ball Mobile”
That’s right, UMW Blogs now has all the BuddyPress features fully operational, take a look for yourself at the blogs directory, members directory, groups directory and profiles. This is very eciting for a wide range of reasons, and we couldn’t have done it without the great, potentate [...]

DUKE CIT Presentation: “Do you believe in magic?”

Looks like the good folks at Duke University’s Center for Instructional Technology put my presentation “Fragmented Identities: A Domain of One’s Own” up on YouTube. Quite frankly, I was afraid to watch the video because I have fond memories of the talk, and on a partial viewing my fears were confirmed—-I was all over [...]

I knew he’d find me sooner or later….

That’s so gay!

I was watching a collection of 1970s cartoons recently with the maniacs, and when we got to a 1977 episode of Batman and Robin titled “The Pest.” I was pretty struck by the homoerotic undertones overtones.  Now, my time as a grad student at the CUNY Grad Center may have tainted me for life, and [...]

Tripping on Twitter by way of the Election in Iran

I spent the last hour or so following the #iranelection hastag on Twitter. It is really unbelievable how much stuff is streaming through on a second-by-second basis. I tried to lock in to the flow of information for a bit to see if I could start making a modicum of sense of what’s going [...]

WPMu and BuddyPress Integration with bbPress 1.0 RC3

bbPress is finally moving towards 1.0, and it looks like it may get there quickly. The tutorial that I wrote up about integrating WPMU, BuddyPress, and bbPress was actually for bbPress Alpha, so I took the time to update today. The cookie integration details changed slightly for me for WPMu 2.7.1, so I figured I [...]

UMW Blogs To-Do List

Well, we are swinging back into full development mode at DTLT, and UMW Blogs looms large on the agenda. I’ve been playing around with BuddyPress for the last week or so, and I finally got it installed and the integration working between BuddyPress, WPMu 2.7.1, and bbPress, but there is one big fail: the Multi-DB [...]




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