April 2011
7 posts
“We at the IMSLP believe that music should be something that is easily accessible...”
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The Internet Musical Score Library Project provides thousands of scores for free download. It is based in Canada and follows Canadian Copyright Law which holds that music becomes Public Domain fifty years following the death of the composer.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)...
Bytes and Pieces →
DEATH BY POWERPOINT
it seems almost everyone has horror stories about deadly PowerPoint presentations. My personal favorite is about an office worker in a certain large and nameless educational organization, who didn’t follow rule number one. She didn’t arrive 20 min. before the meeting was to begin to check her connections and see that her presentation would work. When it was her...
Plato, Web 2.0, and the Loss of Critical Thinking →
What does this all have to do with Plato? Two-and-a-half millennia ago, Plato also lived in a time of changing technologies. Plato was literate, just as most educators use email, Google, and to a certain extent, social media. Like other educators, Plato was generally conservative though, and skeptical of change. One of these changes was the rapid spread of written language. Plato felt that...
“Mr. Culhane, …a devotee of the avant-garde. He was influenced by the...”
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Sergei Eisentein, Fritz Lang, Jean Renoir, Willem de Kooning, and Woody Woodpecker…
Watch the video
Woody Woodpecker and Shamus Culhane’s Animation - NYTimes.com
“In a recent interview, The Daily Mail and Apple Senior VP of design, Jony Ive...”
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The quote from Arthur C. Clarke is one of my very favorite 21st-century-quotes-said-in-the-20th-century.
This article very nicely says something I’ve thought a lot about; the only technical spec. that really matters is the user’s experience and this is something that Apple gets.
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