July 17th, 2009 by Katrin Becker
The Internet is a Schrödinger device.
On the interweb, after a while, things are simultaneously there and gone. They might be there, or they might not, depending on some earlier random event.
On Kindle, when we look in the box, we see the book either there or gone, not a mixture of there and gone (just like the cat).
For webpages, they too are either there or gone – sometimes they even stay there long after they’re gone.
There really is no way to predict which it will be until we look.
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May 17th, 2008 by Katrin Becker
Some years ago I was at a conference where Dmitri Williams was talking about the social history of videogames. He made reference to this song as a way of illustrating how the societal reaction to videogames isn’t really new. Since then I’ve thought about re-working (OK maybe perverting a little) the lyrics to match the current denunciation of our newest medium (with apologies and all due respect for the original composer Meredith Willson (1902-1984). For a dictionary of the original terminology, see: http://www.sewickley.org/~kcerny/LowerSchool/divisionmusical/TheMusicManDictionary.htm
Ya Got Trouble (original lyrics found here)
Read on to see my updated lyrics….
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May 16th, 2008 by Katrin Becker
It is not new, but I recently came across a fun site to visit…. [I Can Has Cheezburger]
more cat pictures
And there is also it’s “sister”site [I Has A Hotdog]:
see more dog pictures
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