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Pixolu – Image Search

Friday afternoon. Time to read a couple of journal articles. Nah, time for some online exploration. LifeHacker describes an interesting image search tool – Pixolu. It works like this. 1) You enter a term and locate images related to that search term. 2) Based on the image collection returned, you then select a prototype image [...]

Posted 31 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

This Just In – Valley Middle School Election Results

Today, Grand Forks’ Valley Middle School participated in the Mock election. Students were given individual logins, connected to the polling site, cast votes for national and local contests, completed a survey on important issues, selected priorities issues to be addressed if funds are tight, and selected a miracle president for the next 4 years by [...]

Posted 31 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The iPhone – A Computer for the Rest of Us

The Wall Street Journal presents some data on recent iPhone sales that is quite intriguing. Ownership of the iPhone rose 48% from June 1 to the end of August among households earning between $25,000 and $50,000 a year, compared to 21% overall … Some speculated that Apple would be differentially harmed by an economic downturn [...]

Posted 31 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Will the Government Bail Out Higher Education Too

USA Today just published a piece indicating that: “Colleges and universities are entering into very difficult financial times — and access and quality are likely to remain at great risk” I had a sense this was coming. Tuition has been going up consistently and we hear more and more criticism from the public. In the [...]

Posted 30 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

The Bridge That Could Have Led Somewhere

Daughter Kim spent the summer + working in Ketchikan and continues to follow developments in Alaska even though she is now back in MSP in graduate school. She just sent me a link to a Newsweek article authored by the mayor describing the “bridge to nowhere”. I kind of met the mayor. Actually, he was [...]

Posted 29 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

The Times (actually the Monitor), They Are Changing

The New York Times reports that the Christian Science Monitor has decided to terminate the hard copy edition and try to make it online (with the addition of a weekend magazine). The announcement of the decision from the Monitor includes the following quote – “We plan to take advantage of the Internet in order to [...]

Posted 28 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

CodeWeaver’s Offer – Act Immediately

This post is time sensitive. CodeWeaver is offering some free software TODAY ONLY. See this post from Slashdot for an explanation. Pretty funny and I assume a legit explanation. Use your own judgment. I downloaded CrossOver Mac Pro (a program allowing Windows programs to run on the Mac without the installation of Windows) and I [...]

Posted 28 October 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °