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Link reblogged from chpwn blog
Spire needs a proxy!? It’s useless!
As has been noted, my recently released tweak Spire requires a proxy and data from an iPhone 4S to operate. As the point of Spire is to get Siri on devices that aren’t the iPhone 4S, this might at first seem to imply that Spire is useless.
However, this…
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Link reblogged from ParisLemon
Earlier today I noticed something funny. My Google profile picture — the picture associated with my Gmail account, my GChat account, my Google+ account, etc — had vanished. A bug? Nope.
It turns out, Google — without telling me — went into my account and deleted my profile picture. Why?…
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Link reblogged from ParisLemon
The popular argument nowadays is that the movie business is tanking because the majority of movies suck. But that’s not really true. Sure, many big, Hollywood movies suck. But for each of those, there are a few smaller, independent movies which are great. In fact, as a whole, I might argue that quality is better than it ever has been thanks to technology greatly driving down the cost to make a film.
As Ebert lays out, the actual problem is with the distribution model. That is, most movie theaters in the U.S. are set up to play only the big ticket items — and again, a good percentage of that is crap. Massive films like Avatar and The Dark Knight disguise this — but only temporarily. This year there wasn’t a film of that magnitude, so we’re seeing it.
Here’s a shocker: the theaters showing actual good movies are doing quite well.
I see a healthy number of movies myself — at least one a week, sometimes two. But I rarely go to the AMCs of the world (in fact, the only time I’ve been to one recently was to see an IMAX). I go to theaters like Sundance which pride themselves on the quality of the experience and the quality of the films they show. You buy a reserved seat and you can buy a drink for the showing. Because it’s a bit more expensive, the audience tends to be better behaved as well. It’s well worth the money.
Ebert has this exactly right and the theater industry would be wise to listen to him. But they won’t. Because next year, we’ll get The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit and a few other massive films. And they’ll think everything is just fine again. And they’ll keep on thinking that until they go out of business. Which will happen.
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Well thought out, given that the title lends itself to random abstracts such as “Online video will not bake sugar cookies for you” in the pursuit of accuracy.
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Link reblogged from The Textbook Slayer!
I compiled this word bank using key words and phrases taken from mission statements, teaching philosophies, job descriptions, school websites, and other education publications. It’s a great resource for teachers and other educators that want to create powerfully targeted resumes. Including…
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Quote reblogged from Things for TeachersIt took only twenty-five years for the overhead projector to make it from the bowling alley to the classroom. I’m optimistic about academic computing; I’ve begun to see computers in bowling alleys.George Landow (1993)
(Source: visualturn)
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Link reblogged from psithinkyousareawesomez
“Who is taking me to the prom?”
“I am going to work at Magic City…just to pay my way through school”
“I ate some dog food once…you ever did that Ms. J?”
“Imma go to JC Mart and get me a wig. You should get one Ms. J - one of them lace-front ones!”
Me: Please stop waving your arms around.
D:…
Not much has changed in two years…
