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Why I’m buying Blackboard
Okay, I'll admit it: I'm buying Blackboard, the fabulous Learning Management System company that has totally wowed faculty during its agile-minded development over more than a decade. Four weeks ago, to the day, my lawyers forwarded an unsolicited offer to Blackboard's lawyers, and while the talks are still in process, and I have a few […]
On laws and effects that aren’t so
There is a certain piquancy in the utter solemnity with which Wikipedia entries assume the truthfulness of Baumol’s cost disease and Campbell’s law. The first is a putative truism that labor-intensive fields have lower productivity increases by dint of that trait, and the second is another putative truism that all stakes on measures distort the trustworthiness […]
Weird science
It's been a while since I wrote an Out of Left Field Friday entry, and since I've worked 60 or more hours this week and desperately need to take a break… so a science-themed entry. Cars are Faraday cages, which is why we're safe inside one in a thunderstorm (even thundersnow, at least from the […]
Waiting for an iPad “correction” to start a small war
Just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if an iPad "correction" is the spark for a diplomatic incident some day. Or at least it would make for a great backstory an author never quite explains, like the Helvetic War David Brin never quite explains in Earth. "I was one of the hostages in the Bezerkistan […]
Mild rants to end the week.
In no particular order: Why does Worldcat give my Internet Explorer browser such fits? Why do I live in the same state as Rush Limbaugh, the balloon-boy family, and the money-desperate guy who threatens to burn the Quran? Or, rather, since I like living in Florida, why did they ever move here?? Has any quantitative social-science […]