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Pithy wisdom will wait
Last night as I was driving around on a few errands, I listened to part of This American Life‘s 10 Commandments episode. This morning, a clever idea from that popped into my head, but I’m afraid I’ve been spending time on journal editing tasks–reading reviewer reports and sending out some disposition letters, starting with the […]
I’m a serial blogger!
In the mail today, I received back the ISSN application form for the blog. That’s right: Bloggers can download the International Standard Serial Number application form, fill it out, and send it in. From now on, you’ll seen the ISSN in the left navigation scroll: 1936-6701.
Book geography thanks to Google
Google Books now has an interesting feature: in one page, you can find all the places mentioned in a book displayed on a map. I just discovered it for Education Reform in Florida.
Notes from the underground academic
Tidbits from the last few days: I’ve been so busy with various things that I forgot to note that two days after Accountability Frankenstein appeared on my doorstep, Education Reform in Florida appeared at my office. Two books in three days: not bad. Tomorrow I head to Atlanta and a talk Wednesday at Emory. Gotta […]
Excel zen
By Sherman Dorn on May 26, 2007
I’m a fan of Edward Tufte in terms of information design, even if he did clash with Jakob Nielsen in an OK/Cancel superhero spoof of HCI gurus. Every year or so I dip into the website to see if there’s more stuff I need to learn. Tufte hates PowerPoint and Excel with a passion, though […]
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