desk....the crisp click of a key depressed......the soft shuck of a page turning....a glance around the room.....the interaction with a page....with a screen...with a voice....with a click.....

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

56 years of student desk graffiti. The original model for student discourse is being celebrated as they prepare to renovate one of the (admittedly ugly) but much loved main classroom buildings at my alma mater. Its worth a look and a thought when you click on the slide show here.

Monday, August 18, 2008

The Soda/Pop Map of the United States. Now if they could only get John Hudson's BBQ Map of America--he used it in his world geography class at Northwestern when I was his grader ($500). It was awesome.

So, here goes...in the firm belief that I speak for ame crazy. I like to scan the topics and they keep coming and going. Score one for the neo-ludites--*&@# technology. Better go put on some Rage Against the Machine.

Gordon Brown, recently announced plans to provide British military resources to help "shore up security" in the Niger Delta.

Contrast the BBC reporting on the "offer" and that published by the Socialist Worker or even Britain's Financial Times and you will get an idea of the nature of the controversy. And those are just the superficial mass media reports.

While checking up on the details of the story, I ran into the most amazing opportunity. Michael Watts' monograph on the Niger Delta, Curse of the Black Gold, has been made available in a free pdf version at Power House Books. I am