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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Tag Archives: general
Librarians Rule! Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
My English 101 class spent the evening last night with Jack Bales, the Humanities librarian at UMW. Jack’s teaching style is wonderfully enthusiastic and rigorous. He worked us through the intricacies of database searching with dash and exactitude. He spent … Continue reading
The Yahoo Time Capsule
Upon signing out of Fickr after uploading some images, I was presented with an advertisement for something called the Yahoo Time Capsule. See the ad below: My interest was piqued by the “Smithsonian Folkways Recordings” link as well as the … Continue reading
Exceeding CPU Limits with Bluehost
A few times over the last month I have exceeded the limits of the server CPU on Bluehost. Three of the four times I have gotten the message above (which suspends my entire account for at least a few minutes). … Continue reading
It’s a girl …
Living proof that bavatuesdays doesn’t just wax poetic about WordPress. As Rutger Hauer says in Blade Runner: “We’re not robots, Sebastian -we’re physical!”
Embedding Google Videos in WordPress
I just found a great Coca-Cola commerical parodying Grand Theft Auto on digg. The commerical is hosted on google videos, so I went searching for a solution to embed it in a post of a WordPress blog I recently setup … Continue reading
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
Still Blue with Bluehost
I promised an update to the “A Bit Blue with Bluehost” article I posted last week, and I am afraid there is still very little clarification as to why Drupal and Typo3 are not currently Fantastico enabled. According to the … Continue reading
Beyond Self-Interest, or, Some Initial Thoughts on Re-imagining the Possibilities of the Open Source Movement
In a recent article on ZDNetUK, Sun’s Simon Phipps argued that the open source movement is premised on the capitalist ethic of self-interest. Below is an excerpt from the article quoting Phipps’ discussion of open source within a capitalist framework: … Continue reading
LibraryThing.com
Boing Boing linked to a WSJ article about a new social networking service called LibraryThing.com. Below is the excerpt from boingboing: WSJ has an interesting article about LibraryThing.com, a site that lets you create a database of your books, rate … Continue reading
Slide Show Pro
In my efforts to find an easy, versatile, and professional looking solution for presenting images as a slideshow online, I came across SlideShowPro – an extension for Macromedia’s newer Flash authoring programs, such as Flash MX Professional or Flash 8. … Continue reading