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Courtney and I managed to get out a new episode of the ITS Coffee Break in June, which is impressive given how many trips and vacations we had. Episode #76 looks at Google Loon, File Sender, summer reading lists, and technology teaching grants, CLAMP Recognition Awards, and much more. Get the podcast.
Kylara Vatta’s dreams of a brilliant military career were ruined by one well-intentioned wrong decision; instead she goes to work for her family’s shipping company. Her first mission: captain a ship destined for the scrapyard. Of course, it’s not that easy as Vatta decides to try and turn a profit of her own using the … Read more
The Bowl of Heaven is a “tremendous object in space” novel, similar in scope to Niven’s original Ringworld books. Like Ringworld, it involves a massive construct — in this case a hemisphere — that has several million times the surface area of earth. A crew of human explorers comes across the hemisphere and sends an away mission to investigate. … Read more
There are two new editions of the ITS Coffee Break out this month: ITS Coffee Break #74: Class of 2017, Raspberry Pi, Google Glass, WordPress 3.6 ITS Coffee Break #75: Summer Projects, Turning Off Gadgets, Qualtrics Workshops
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The ITS Coffee Break is back! After an extended hiatus Courtney Bentley and I have started recording new podcasts on a bimonthly basis. Check out the most recent shows: ITS Coffee Break #70: Mobile Web, Smart Watches, MOOCs, Faculty Technology Grants ITS Coffee Break #71:WordPress, IT Security Training, Google Reader Retired ITS Coffee Break #72: … Read more
Qapla. Dah tlhingan hol mu ghom a dalegh. Qawhaqvam chenmohlu di wiqipe diya ohvad ponglu. Ach jinmolvamvad Saghbe law tlhingan hol, dis, oh mevmohlu. Ach dis jar wa mahcha dich wikia jinmoldaq vihta.
Mistborn is the first book in Brandon Sanderson’s Final Empire series. The setup is simple enough: imagine if the hero destined to save the world from a terrible evil did so … and then decided to use his new-found power to establish a tyrannical empire. The ascended “Lord Ruler” is considered a living god, and … Read more
A trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness … done entirely in LEGO.