In what critics are calling “musicblogocide 2010″, Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google’s Blogger and Blogspot services, received notices only after their sites – and years of archives – were wiped from the internet.
Shame on you Google. Follow this on twitter. Be smart, host yourself and do regular backups. Blogger is now dead for a big part of the blogosphere.
This attitude towards testing plays into everything that – educationally speaking – makes Americans feel embarrassed about themselves. On first hearing Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, the usual response of a young American is not to swoon, weep or ponder whether beauty is really truth, and truth beauty. It is to ask: “Will that be on the test?”
How many of my fellow Portuguese readers throughout their 5 years of college asked this same question: Will that be on the test?
A solo o senhor é fenomenal. Um cheiro do que ele tocou:
Mais impressões daqui a uns dias.
The American Scholar has an article by William Zinsser’s on how to write English as a second language.
You have no idea of how blessed you are if you stumble upon this article early in your writing career.
Good luck to you all indeed.
According to Tim Brady, only his type of creativity is creativity, hence, he postulates: “For creative people, this device is nothing.“
I love when people believe only their type of creativity is really being creative. It’s like when scientists only believe what they study is relevant and only that will have a significant impact in the world. We normally label those as clueless grad students. This behavior is more prominent before they have had their initial failures.
has started in full swing (gizmodo)!
And yes, some of these things are true. Also true is that we don’t have to buy it. Developers can make apps for other systems, that are more open (Believe me, it’s all going to be about what apps will make it a must have). That is all great if you believe that linux is a great system and you can simply quickly download an app for any linux distribution out there without any trouble. That you can just use linux right out of the box, etc.
Yes, Apple is getting more closed over time, somewhat too greedy. Yes, I think the iPad will need to be more open. Eventually, it will be, one way or the other: Jail-brake or Apple will offer a more advanced model with more options. I mean, they must have seen what has just happened to the Kindle.
That said, people can buy non-mac hardware and run OS X on it, but the numbers have shown people don’t care about it: They’d just rather buy it off Apple and not worry about it. And this is the crux of the issue: people want to buy and not worry about it. It’s a freakin’ computer, a tool, it’s not a project.
Qingqing Wang’s Seven taboos when socializing with graduate students:
There’s a feeling of sheer brilliance that you get in Keith Jarrett’s live performances and a rare display of sobriety that has been recently epitomized by Brad Mehldau. Get it here.
Fresh on my inbox:
“Harvard slows probe into coffee poisoning
Boston Herald, January 26, 2010 – By Adam Smith
Harvard University police are wrapping up the “active phase” of an investigation into who poisoned the coffee machine in a Longwood-area medical school building. After months of investigating and interviewing 150 people, the university said in a Dec. 23 memo to faculty and students that the case will no longer be pursued, but that it is “still officially open.” “
More here at the highly respected Boston Herald’s website. For your information, they have no clue of who it was – as is usual with this types of stuff. This is like a bad soap opera that keeps on living…
