Facebook in real life
February 9, 2009 in fun
This is funny/creepy. Via Eric Zorn and @coloneltribune on Twitter.
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Just for fun: music from 2008
January 6, 2009 in blogging, fun
I’ve posted a write-up of some of the music that gained heavy rotation in my iTunes last year over at my personal weblog. Idea inspired by Mark Hamilton. What was your playlist like last year?
Black (Monday) humor
October 7, 2008 in fun
Silly Internet traditions: Humor break
July 8, 2008 in fun
Image via Wikipedia
If you are not aware of all Internet traditions (see here for a full explanation of the latest meme), Brad Reed of NetworkWorld has a fancy slideshow and some explanatory text to help you out with Silly Internet Traditions: A Concise History.
 In honor of the Internet’s uniquely dense brand of insider humor, we’ve decided to examine and explain each of the most famous Internet traditions of the past decade. While this guide may not help you speak fluent 1337 overnight, it will at least help you understand why Chuck Norris is seemingly held in such high esteem nowadays…
The Dancing Baby, LOLcats, Chris Crocker, and others make the list. Check it out for a good laugh, or a primer. If you don’t know about Godwin’s law, now you can know when to invoke it.
I’m always surprised when I mention something like the Ceiling Cat and students look at me with blank stares. It’s also fascinating to see how viral videos and Internet traditions take off and develop beyond what anyone would have imagined (Icanhascheezburger.com, where I got the image below, is a site solely devoted to LOLanimals)
Just remember, all your bases are belong to us.
more cat pictures
Tuesday afternoon fun
April 8, 2008 in fun
Via the always entertaining Generator Blog, the punk rock jacket generator. Here’s the new jacket for the weblog:
Try it yourself and drop a comment or link to your output.
Flash animated editorial cartoons
February 28, 2008 in Flash, fun
If you want to get people involved in learning Flash, one way to do that is to make it more fun, and nothing is more fun than cartoons (at least, nothing you can do in print!).
There are a couple of editorial cartoonists out there who are doing flash-based editorial cartoon animations.
One is Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press. Check out his weblog and see some of the animations, along with his regular print editorial cartoons. Another is Grey Blackwell at the Raleigh News-Observer. Check out the videos here to see some examples of his work. UPDATE: Also, Nick Anderson from the Houston Chronicle. Check his work out here (look on the right side of the screen for his “channel”).
Update: Thanks to Mindy McAdams for reminding me about this topic with this post.
If you’ve got a good editorial cartoonist on staff, maybe they could be hooked up with a Flash designer, or use the opportunity to learn on their own, and create some Flash-based editorial cartoons for the web site.
Paloozaheads
Okay, so that didn’t take long. Here are some who’ve agreed to share:
- David Swartzlander, Doane College
- Chris Carroll, Vanderbilt University
- Marc Wood, Associated Collegiate Press
- And our first student! Megan Taylor, University of Florida
- Bill DiNome, UNC-Wilmington
- Jenny Fischer, Colorado State
- Amy Kilpatrick, University of Alabama-Birmingham
- Bill Neville, formerly of Georgia Southern
- Tom Winski, Lindsey Wilson College
- Add that to mine: Bryan Murley, ICM
I’ll keep updating this post if I get more – you don’t have to be an adviser. Go! Make your own.
