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Veterans Day Interest Spikes
Posted on November 11, 2010 | No CommentsGoogle has some interesting additions to their search results. You can now see ‘Related Searches’, a ‘Wonder wheel’, and a ‘Timeline’. I think the timeline may have been there for... -
Orals Passed!
Posted on October 29, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhew! That was fun. Marion Deschmuk, Dina Copelman, and Sean Takats are great faculty to work with. And I would not have been able to do it without the mentoring... -
40th anniversary of the moon landing
Posted on July 22, 2009 | No CommentsWhat space junky, almost historian, geek would I be without posting a little bit about some of the best type of history in existence. I refer, of course, to the... -
Blast from the past
Posted on May 22, 2009 | No CommentsWhat I have for you this week are just a few websites that give us access to the past, an historical artifact that uncovers a mystery, and some new ways... -
Finished 1989 Flash Map
Posted on February 10, 2009 | No CommentsI had to dig this out of the depths of my computer today, and a quick search showed that I never posted the final version. So here it is in... -
Zotero's code_swarm
Posted on November 1, 2008 | No CommentsI finally figured it all out, and got a working version of Zotero’s development on trunk for the past year in code_swarm. Next, I need to find or make some... -
History of Software Applications
Posted on September 12, 2008 | No CommentsThere’s a really cool new way to visualize the creation of software. It’s called code_swarm. Developed by Michael Ogawa as a way to do just that, visualize the creation of...